The two wings of Fannie Mae’s future headquarters will be linked.
Carr Properties has followed up its application to raze the longtime Washington Post headquarters with the detailed vision for its replacement. D.C.-based Carr has filed its plans with the Board of Zoning Adjustments for an 838,480-square-foot, 12-story metal-and-glass office building in the central business district at 15th and L streets NW.
Roughly 85 percent of the building will be leased by Fannie Mae, which intends to occupy the property in two phases starting in late 2017. The new building will be deemed an addition to the existing Columbia Center at 1152 15th St. NW, which Carr acquired earlier this month for $120 million. The two buildings, linked by a canopy structure as large as 4,000 square feet, combined will add up to 1.25 million square feet.
The addition will consist of two office lobbies and a series of retail pavilions totaling 42,000 square feet, nearly 10 times the amount of retail on the ground floor of the Post headquarters.
Fannie Mae is expected to move roughly 3,500 employees into the new building, consolidating down from about 1 million square feet it currently owns and leases in the District.