Press Release – Page 7 – L.F. Jennings

Centro Arlington

Placement of concrete foundations for the Centro Arlington mixed use project has begun.

Developed by Orr Partners, this project replaces a dated retail center into a community hub that will serve as an anchor for redevelopment along the Columbia Pike corridor. In keeping with Arlington County’s “Main Street” aesthetic, KGD Architects’ design transforms the existing grocery anchored shopping center into a vibrant mixed-use development including a Harris Teeter grocery store, additional retail space, rental apartments and a public square.

The six-story mixed use project consists of two levels of below grade parking, street level retail and grocery and 5 levels of wood framed apartments. The development includes 366 residential units, 28,000 SF of in-line retail, a 52,000 SF Harris Teeter, two levels of below grade parking, and a 22,000 SF public square featuring central gardens, seating, water feature, and event space.

L.F. Jennings Wins Three ABC Excellence in Construction Awards

L.F. Jennings is the proud recipient of three Associated Builders and Contractors of Metro Washington Excellence in Construction Awards for the Build to Suit BerkleyNet Center at Innovation, Cascades Overlook Mixed-Use Development, and Whole Foods H Street, NE projects.

BerkleyNet Center at Innovation is a 71,000 SF built-to-suit office building designed by Morgan Gick McBeath Associates. The modern brick, glass, and metal panel building is the new home of BerkleyNet Underwriters. Occupying two of the three floors of the building, the interior is a highly curated space designed by The M Group that closely reflects and facilitates the corporate culture of the tenant.

Buchanan Partners’s efforts and vision for this project not only delivered Prince William County’s wish to keep the 200+employee company headquarters in the county, but resulted in an award-winning facility.

BerkelyNet Center at Innovation was awarded an Excellence in Construction Award in the Commercial ($5-$12 Million) category. Congratulations to Buchanan Partners, Morgan Gick McBeath Associates, The M Group, and Berkley Net Underwriters.

Cascades Overlook is an expansive mixed-use development by the Meladon Group. Designed by BCT Architects, the 13-acre suburban site was transformed into a hybrid of town center and traditional grocery anchored retail center. In addition to over 100,000 SF of retail and office space, the project features 8,600 SF of civic space with parks, fountains, and amenities for visitors and residents of the development.

Cascades Overlook was awarded and Excellence in Construction Award in the Retail ($5 Million & over) category. Congratulations to the Meladon Group and BCT Architects.

Whole Foods H Street, NE is the first new Whole Foods in the District since 2011. This project is a manifestation of how much the H Street NE corridor has changed in recent years. The 40,000 SF store designed by Rounds VanDuzer includes more than your traditional Whole Foods. It includes a full-service sit-down bar, coffee and juice bar, and expanded offerings from local chefs in the prepared foods selection. The location functions as much as an organic grocer as a restaurant and bar in one of Washington, DC’s most vibrant rising neighborhoods.

Whole Foods H Street, NE was awarded an Excellence in Construction Award in the Retail/Interiors Only category. Congratulations to Whole Foods and Rounds VanDuzer.

L.F. Jennings would also like to thank all our subcontractor partners on helping us deliver award winning projects for our Clients.

Poet’s Walk Memory Care Assisted Living Underway

For Immediate Release 8/16/2017

Construction is underway for two new Poet’s Walk Memory Care Assisted Living facilities in Warrenton and Leesburg, Virginia. Poet’s Walk, a Spring Hill Senior Community member, specializes in a personalized approach to memory care assisted living.

L.F. Jennings is managing the construction of both facilities which are set to open in the fourth quarter of 2017. The single story, 38,000 SF buildings will accommodate 68 residents each. Both are designed and constructed to give occupants a high-end experience. Dining facilities, a bistro, community areas, an ice cream parlor, a salon, and two enclosed courtyards all work to sustaining the community resort atmosphere, while discrete nurse call stations and building security provide support and safety for the residents.

Designed by LRS Architects, the facilities themselves are an important tool in the care of the residents. State of the art technology permits staff to discreetly and remotely monitor patients, allowing residents a greater degree of domestic independence. Tenants remain connected and engaged to the larger community through building amenities and organized activities. This balance of autonomy and community are central to the well-being and improved quality of life for the residents.

L.F. Jennings Awarded Contract for Major Building Renovation of 540 Redland

For Immediate Release
3/15/2017

This March, L.F. Jennings will be brought on as the general contractor to renovate the interior of 540 Gaither Road at Redland in Rockville, Maryland. This building was originally constructed in 2009, but a recently expired government lease has opened an opportunity to modernize and re-position the 540 building, creating additional value throughout the property.

The six-story building will undergo both demolition and renovation. This includes a new entrance feature, lobby, improved lighting, elevator cabs, conference center, a new fitness center, locker rooms, and an interactive lounge with a gas fire place. The new finishes throughout will blend warm wood accents with natural stone feature walls and porcelain tile flooring, creating a warm, modern aesthetic. Additional interior improvements are geared towards new leasing efforts. This includes the demolition of floors 2-6 and renovating 8 restrooms throughout the property.

DCS Design is architect and responsible for the project renderings. A wholly owned subsidiary of First Potomac Realty Investment Limited Partnership is the owner of 540 Gaither Road at Redland.

For More Information:
Jeff Black
L.F. Jennings, Inc.
Falls Church, Virginia
(703) 241-1200

Charlie Smiroldo
First Potomac Realty Trust
Bethesda, Maryland
(703) 656-2070

Multi-family Project In Adams Morgan, Washington D.C. Under-Construction by L.F. Jennings

For Immediate Release
3/2/2017

L.F. Jennings has the distinction of constructing a brand-new retail and residential building in Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C. at 1777 Columbia Road, which is scheduled to be completed in early 2018. Beztak Properties and Foxhall Partners are developers and co-owners of the six-story building, which will bring approximately 80 rental apartment units to the heart of Adams Morgan, directly across Columbia Road from the entrance of The LINE Hotel.

Beztak Properties, headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI and Foxhall Partners, based in Washington, D.C. have been key investors in the Adams Morgan neighborhood since 2006. The firms each specialize in multi-family residential and mixed-use developments.

Designed by Streetsense, with select interiors and artwork from the world-famous Michele Oka Doner, the building will feature nearly 13,000 square feet of street-level retail space and a residential lobby; the top five stories will be home to 80 luxury apartment residences with convenient underground parking. Residential units will boast open floor plans, 9 foot ceilings and luxurious finishes including gourmet kitchens with flat panel cabinetry, porcelain backsplash, quartz countertops and stainless steel appliances. The property’s existing first story historic façade will remain while the newly designed façade for the top five stories will feature rich dark exterior tones and large industrial sized windows, bringing a sophisticated, modern look and feel to the neighborhood. The second floor will be host to a garden courtyard, complete with landscape and trees.

Adams Morgan, located just two miles north of the White House, can best be described as a dense and culturally rich residential and retail neighborhood located in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. As a cultural mecca, it is celebrated for its diversity, offering global cuisine and a high concentration of shops, bars and restaurants. Adams Morgan boasts one of the most highly trafficked nightlife districts in the Washington metropolitan area. Parts of the neighborhood are also designated historic districts, with turn of the century row houses and updated multi-family residences offering young professionals, families and empty nesters from the suburbs, a varied selection of housing types and styles.

About Beztak Properties

For more than six decades, Beztak has developed, built, managed and invested in commercial, industrial and residential real estate throughout the United States. Today, Beztak owns and manages a diverse portfolio of commercial, office, retail, senior living and multi-family residential real estate, and continues to develop and construct new properties as well as renovate existing properties to add value or reposition them in the market. Beztak also offers comprehensive and customizable fee-based property management services for companies seeking to generate higher revenues from their assets while improving overall performance.

Headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, Beztak has offices in Boca Raton, Florida and Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. They currently have communities located in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama. For more information, visit www.Beztak.com.

About Foxhall Partners

Established in 2010, Foxhall Partners is a Washington, D.C. based commercial real estate firm that specializes in hospitality, retail, lifestyle rental apartments and mixed-use developments. In its dedication to creating real estate value, Foxhall focuses on leasing, entitlements and zoning, repositioning and development and active asset management. In collaboration with other industry-leading partners, Foxhall’s projects are centered around unique and high level design projects in select United States metropolitan markets. For more information, visit www.foxhallpartners.com.

For More Information:
Jim Fowler
L.F. Jennings, Inc.
Falls Church, Virginia

(703) 241-1200

Thank You, to our Valued Friends and Colleagues of 2016

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

2016 was a very good year for L.F. Jennings. Retail has been gaining momentum as evidenced by the many new stores we are building. Our multifamily continues to establish itself with two projects underway in Washington, DC with several more in the pipeline. Mixed-use developments are driving opportunities across the region and L.F. Jennings is fortunate to be building a number of them. Our Corporate Interiors group continues to grow and landed several marquis projects across the Mid Atlantic. Our Central Virginia office continues to see steady growth in a wide range of markets such as, grocery anchored retail, interiors, and mixed use projects.

Over the last 12 months, L.F. Jennings was recognized for the high quality of our work and received several Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) awards and a NAIOP award for top quality construction including:

Belmont Chase Shopping Center — Retail ($5 Million and over), ABC
Whole Foods Market, Belmont Chase — Retail Interiors, ABC
Local Motors at National Harbor — Interiors ($75-100 sq/ft), ABC
Local Motors at National Harbor — Best Street Level Retail Project, NAIOP DC/MD

Thank you for working with L. F. Jennings!

Have a great Holiday Season and a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year!!

Best Regards,

Michael L Killelea

Senior Vice President

Construction Underway for New Office Building in Manassas, Virginia

For Immediate Release
10/28/2016

Berkley Net at Innovation is a new three story office project for the Buchanan Partners, under construction by L.F. Jennings in Manassas Virginia. The building will total approximately 70,000 square feet and fashion a handsome exterior consisting of brick, metal panels, and glass. The building’s exterior architect is MGMA. L.F. Jennings will also be preforming work on the interior of the structure after the shell is completed. The interior includes a highly finished main lobby, spec suites on the first level and a modern interior office fit out on levels 2 and 3 for Berkely Net Underwriters [the primary tenant]. M Group is the architect for Berkely Net’s interior fit out.

Michael Timcheck from M Group says the biggest goal in designing Berkely Net’s space was to create a space that brought the entire Berkley Net team together. Currently they occupy three suites across two floors, and the staff was finding it difficult to collaborate. To bring the teams together, they created large destination spaces (a living room and an arena) that could accommodate everything from a simple Tuesday lunch to an all-hand type meeting. To support smaller collaborations, huddle and team rooms are also placed throughout the space.

While bringing everyone together was a goal, they did not want one vast open office space (a sea of workstations). Rather, ’neighborhoods’ for internal teams were created, and efficient and multiple means of circulations between these neighborhoods and the collaboration spaces are provided. These ‘neighborhoods’ allow staff to have a smaller home within the larger office space.

L.F. Jennings and M Group worked closely with Buchanan Partners and Berkley Net to develop the industrial aesthetic they desired, while maintaining a balance with typical office space needs. Concrete floors and metal finishes are warmed with pops of color and wood. Allowing the staff to have views to the outside and to let in as much natural light as possible was a crucial goal. MGMA, the base building architect, and M Group worked together to lower the sill height to maximize glazing.

Once completed Berkley Net’s new space will be a tool to help with recruiting and retaining the best and brightest. A primary idea behind this, was that a large number of workers want to be located outside of the busy Washington D.C. beltway. They want a fun space with a convenient location.

L.F. Jennings is excited to be a part of such a remarkable project, Innovation at Berkely Net is slated to finish in April of 2017.

For More Information:
Mike Killelea
L.F. Jennings, Inc.
Falls Church, Virginia

(703) 241-1200

L.F. Jennings Won 3 Awards at the 2016 ABC Excellence in Construction Awards

For Immediate Release
9/19/2015

L.F. Jennings won 3 awards at the 2016 ABC Excellence in Construction Awards, taking home awards in the categories of: Retail $5 million & over, Retail Interiors and Interiors $75-100 per square foot.

-Winning Projects-

Belmont Chase Shopping Center (Retail $5 million & over):

Belmont Chase is located in the Belmont Executive Center master planned development, serving Loudoun County’s customer base from centrally-located Ashburn, VA. The center has visibility and easy access from Leesburg Pike/Route 7, Russell Branch and Claiborne Parkways.

Belmont Chase creates a desirable destination for Loudoun community members and nearby office workers with easy access to make shopping convenient, and plazas that invite customers to linger.

Belmont Chase is poised to effectively draw highly engaged customers who desire the best shopping and dining the area has to offer, making Whole Foods a perfect fit as the centers anchor tenant. Other key tenants include Cava Mezze Grill, Cooper’s Hawk Restaurant, Floyd’s Barbershop, Peet’s Coffee, Habit Burger and Pazzo Pomodoro.

The architectural styling incorporates natural materials with a modern flare. Flat angled roofing, architectural buttresses, awnings and wood work are some of the key features to the centers stunning design by both CREATE and Rounds VanDuzer.

Whole Foods Market, Belmont Chase (Retail Interiors):

Whole Foods Market is the primary anchor tenant for the entire award winning Belmont Chase Shopping Center. This Whole Foods’ was awarded separately for its interior fit out. The interior is top of the line, setting the standard for high-end grocery stores. The store has two levels with indoor and outdoor seating. Mill work, polished concrete, metal work, a whiskey barrel ceiling, tile walls, and more all create a truly unique and inviting environment for shoppers to enjoy rather than quickly dash in and out.

Local Motors at National Harbor (Interiors $75-100 sq/ft):

Local Motors is a revolutionary company that has become famous for their unique approach to building highly customizable vehicles at unprecedented speeds. For example, Local Motors was the first company to manufacture a road ready 3-D printed car and their new facility at the National Harbor will use a large scale printer to demonstrate how these cars are made. Local Motors also produces other vehicles such as a high performance off road vehicle, a vintage racing motorcycle, and a motorized bike.

The facility is a 20,000 sf interior fit out project, designed by Bignell Watkins Hasser. The project is comprised of: a lab for the co-creation and research of their vehicles, a showroom/retail center, a build floor for the assembly of the various products and vehicles, and a 3D printer capable of printing their automobiles. One of the signature features of the facility is a winding ramp from the second to first floor, perfect for displaying the capabilities of the companies drift trike, The Verrado.

The project was anything but simple: “There’s countless challenges that we had during the upfront design process,” Jeff Black, L.F. Jennings’ VP of interiors says. “Where we’re building the space is an issue in itself because above it is a hotel. We had major sound constraint issues, height restrictions (since these printing machines are 15 feet tall), and we even had weight restrictions on slab from vibration of the printer. We also had to create a new exterior opening to get the printer into the building.” Some of the key things to consider during the design phase included the huge power requirement and the ventilation requirements to handle the heat loads of the printer.”

For more information:

Sam Hunter
L.F. Jennings Inc.
Falls Church, VA

703-531-2302

2101 Champlain Street Topping Out This Month

For Immediate Release
8/16/2016

Work at 2101 Champlain Street, a luxury Kettler apartment project, is progressing as scheduled. Wood framing is ongoing and we are anticipating topping out the building the last week of August. Windows, vapor barrier and brick installation will begin this month starting in the courtyard and then working our way counterclockwise from the north side around the outside of the building. The tower crane will be taken down by the end of September while roofing work will be in full force to prepare for the green roof in early October.

On the inside of the building, our mechanical, electrical, plumbing and sprinkler trades are fully mobilized and roughing-in their work in the lower levels. Our advanced unit is close to close-in inspections, with owner acceptance in October. We have a majority of the CMU and metal framed walls complete below the transfer deck with punch out of the wood framing occurring on the second floor and above. Our goal over the next few months will be to close in the building as quickly as possible to enable us to start drywall and finishes. Our estimated completion date for the project is May of 2017, which we are on schedule to meet.

(Pictured above: the 2016 L.F. Jennings Summer Interns as well as members of 2101 Champlain Street Project Management Team)

For More Information:
Jim Fowler
L.F. Jennings, Inc.
Falls Church, Virginia

(703) 241-1200

L.F. Jennings Awarded 3 More Buildings at One Loudoun

L.F. Jennings has been selected to construct three more buildings at Loudoun County’s most exciting development; One Loudoun. This brings L.F. Jennings total building count at One Loudoun to eight structures (289,000 SF), in addition to a number of interior fit outs.

One Loudoun is an all-encompassing urban community for living, working, shopping, dining and recreating that is quickly becoming known as Loudoun County’s “Downtown”. The development is ideally situated at the crossroads of Rt. 7 and Loudoun County Parkway just 3 miles from Washington Dulles International Airport.

The new buildings L.F. Jennings will be responsible for constructing are D-1, R & S. Building S is a three-story mixed use office and retail structure, totaling approximately 80,000 SF along Thorndike St (main entrance from Loudoun County Pkwy). Building R is an approximately 10,000 SF single-story retail structure adjacent to building S. Building D-1 is an approximately 4,800 SF single-story retail structure adjacent to the Alamo Theater. All three buildings will add to One Loudoun’s chic modern design, combining a mixture of material elements, sidewalk awnings, glass storefronts and other decorative details.

The overall vision of One Loudoun has been made possible thanks to the owner, Miller and Smith, the architect, The Eisen Group, the development manager, Potomac Development Group and the lead general contractor, L.F. Jennings.

For More Information:
Mike Killelea
L.F. Jennings, Inc.
Falls Church, Virginia

(703) 241-1200