Columbia Pike’s Old Safeway Site
30 04 2008The former site of the Safeway on Columbia Pike is ready for some action! Ground has been broken and plans are already approved by the Arlington board and include 188 rental apartment plus about 34,000 square feet of retail. The project is being developed by Woodfield Investments of Chevy Chase, MD.
We have to say that the architectural elevations look nice (if not fairly plain), but we do really like the trend of using different color bricks to break up larger building into smaller segments.
We wish more designs used this segmentation technique, especially for the larger block-wide projects to make the street scape look a little more varied!
[Rendering: WDG]
Better than nothing…. BUT: I really wish they would break it up by Painting the bricks, using wood/hardiplank, or stonework on some facades. There is too much plain brick in all this new construction!
hardiplank? you’re kidding me right?
When did we completely give up on demanding quality in our buildings?