Just across the river from the nation’s capital, The Bartlett in Arlington, Va., offers its residents the opportunity to work, shop, and enjoy an active social life without leaving a full square block in the Crystal City neighborhood.
Project Details
Location: Arlington, Va.
Developer: JBG Smith
Architects: Torti Gallas and Partners; Maurice Walters with Architect Inc.
Builder: Balfour Beatty Construction
Opened: June 2016
Number of units: 699
Unit mix: Studios and one-, two-, and three-bedrooms
Rents: $2,096 to $4,003
The nearly 700-unit, 23-story building, composed of studios to three-bedroom apartments, took three years to complete and was a fast success once it opened last June. Leases were signed so quickly that a short-term rental project called WhyHotel, which was initiated to fill unleased units, had to be pulled back.
Project developer JBG Smith set out to provide residents with a building that would feature every amenity required for a total lifestyle experience. Hartman Design Group, the project’s interior designer, created intimate gathering places in large volume spaces to set The Bartlett’s amenity offering apart.
Amenities include a fitness and yoga center, a sports bar, two dog parks, an outdoor private dining terrace, and an expansive rooftop club/deck space with extraordinary views. And on the same day The Bartlett opened, so too did a Whole Foods on the ground level. Residents have private access to the grocery store and Joe’s Cold Roast Coffee shop.
Once an industrial park, Crystal City is now a developing urban area. Marketing studies showed, according to Hartman Design Group, that the demographic would be multigenerational; thus, the building was programmed and designed to provide multiple experiences for different age groups.
Now, the program is paying off.
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