Cities thrive on connections. When you detach the grid from natural surroundings, you lose these vital links, turning the built environment into a disorganized jumble of buildings disrupted by roadways over empty spaces. Foggy Bottom Future is an organization dedicated to development that aims to create memorable places for people to live, learn, work, travel through, and visit.
Let’s not wait for the future, let’s build it!
How can we build the future of Foggy Bottom?
- Develop the area in alignment with the current administration’s priorities, DC’s Amended Comprehensive Plan, ULI’s Kennedy Center Action Plan, and NCPC’s Kennedy Center-Foggy Bottom Area Study.
- Improve traffic flow to enhance access for automobiles, pedestrians, buses, public transit, and micro-transit.
- Enhance access to the Potomac River, Georgetown Waterfront, Rock Creek Trail, Roosevelt Bridge, SE Foggy Bottom, the Western Mall, and the Kennedy Center.
- Redesign the terminus of Virginia Ave NW at Rock Creek Parkway, taking into account the L’Enfant Plan.
- Ensure that public process requirements are met in such a way that the development is not delayed.
- Cap the freeway between Juarez Circle, 26th Street, 27th Street, and L Street NW to support development and improve access.
- Reconnect “I” Street NW
- Remove or reconfigure the Whitehurst Freeway ramps to enable development and better access.
- Develop the west section of N14 between Penna. Ave, 26th Street, M Street NW, and Rock Creek.
- Explore expanded Metro options through the WMATA easement in the area.
- Promote the use of Public-Private Partnerships to support private sector development in the NW section of the area.
- Utilize the USDOT’s RCI and RIA planning grant and capital investment programs.
- Development of a multi-modal transportation hub connected to the Kennedy Center, including a tourist bus terminal with circulator links.
- Caping of the freeway between the Kennedy Center and Columbia Plaza.
- Expansion of the National Mall from Ohio Drive to the Kennedy Center.
- Reprogram the Thompson’s Boat House parking lot to include a grand terminus for Virginia Avenue NW and structured parking for scull boat haulers, buses, and cars.
- Allow George Washington University (GWU) to take over Thompson’s boathouse under certain conditions that will also maintain public use.
- Encourage GWU to forfeit the street closure between 23rd and 24th Street NW to facilitate the effective use of circulator buses at the Foggy Bottom-GWU metro station..
- Collaborate with the Federal Government and/or DCDOT to establish an air rights lease to a private developer for the NW section 1 property.
Foggy Bottom Past
The Foggy Bottom communitygrew out of a swamp. Explore the area’s evolution over time in this collection of images.
Foggy Bottom Resources
The contemporary Foggy Bottom community is a work in progress. It is ripe for change based on a host of challenges that need to be addressed.
Foggy Bottom Future
Start somewhere. The section of the defined area that lends itself to private development is the NW section 1 area, as defined in the NCPC plan and as the “Foggy Bottom Connection” in the ULI-TAP study. This is an area of 10+ acres, which is the approximate size of the Watergate Complex. This will allow for innovative financing through tax increment financing and private activity bonds for additional improvements to the area.
The reconnection of the city at the western gateway edge with the Potomac, the incorporation of the National Mall and the Kennedy Center, new development of the NW section, and a rationalized traffic flow between the Roosevelt Bridge, the Whitehurst Freeway, and the city grid complete a critical missing link in Washington, DC’s development history.
About Us
Foggy Bottom Future Inc is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. Our mission is to act as instrument for bringing all the stakeholders together using both private sector and federal government resources to create a new Foggy Bottom Future.
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