Eisenhower East and Carlyle explained

Eisenhower East and Carlyle together form one of the most important commercial and high-density residential neighborhoods of Alexandria, Virginia, the location of many mixed-use developments, office buildings, and hotels.[1] [2] Carlyle is contiguous with Eisenhower East, and is included in the same Eisenhower East Master Plan.[3]

Eisenhower East / Hoffman Center area

The Hoffman Center, with around of office space, was constructed between 1968 and 1972[4] [5] Now a much larger complex known as the Hoffman Town Center, it includes:

Immediately to the north of Hoffman Town Center is Carlyle Crossing, including of retail anchored by an Wegmans supermarket.[11]

Other developments in the area are:

There are plans under discussion as of June 2024 to continue development of the remaining blocks currently serving as surface parking lots.[14] [15] [16]

Former plans that did not come to fruition include a tower at the southwest corner of Eisenhower and Port which would have become, when completed, the tallest inside the Capital Beltway.[17] [18]

Carlyle

Carlyle is home to the United States Patent and Trademark Office with about 12,000 employees,[11] the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse,[19]

Eisenhower Statue

At the east end of Carlyle at Eisenhower Avenue at Holland Drive, stood from 2004 to 2020 a statue of the former president in his army uniform by artist Michael Curtis,[20] erected to mark the official starting point of the national expressway system championed by Eisenhower as president.[21] It stood at the center of a traffic circle which has since been changed to a regular T-intersection.[22]

Parks

Alexandria African American Heritage Park

The Alexandria African American Heritage Park, donated to the city by Norfolk Southern in 1995, is located in the Eisenhower Valley, at the foot of the adjacent Wilkes Street Cemetery Complex. The 7.6-acre park is a satellite of the Alexandria Black History Museum, and was designed by landscape architectural firm EDAW. It contains sculptures by Jerome Meadows, a Washington, D.C.-based artist. The focal point of the park is a group of bronze trees titled Truths That Rise From the Roots Remembered, and other sculptures around the site further commemorate Alexandria's black history.[23] Included in the park are the remains of the Black Baptist Cemetery, which had been established in 1885 but was later abandoned;[24] 28 burials on the site are known, and six headstones have been reerected as memorials to those buried there.[25] A wetland area provides a home for a variety of wildlife.[23]

Hooff's Run, a tributary of Great Hunting Creek, runs through the park;[26] a bridge constructed by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in 1856 crosses the Run at the edge of the park, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[27]

Transit

The area is served by the Eisenhower Avenue Washington Metro and the King Street station of the Washington Metro and the adjacent Alexandria station (officially called Alexandria Union Station) with Virginia Railway Express and Amtrak rail service and DASH (routes: OTC, 30, 31, 32, 33, 102) and WMATA Metrobus (routes: 28A, 29K, 29N, NH2, REX) service to the wider Washington metropolitan area.[28]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eisenhower Valley – Alexandria Economic Development Partnership. alexecon.org. March 26, 2015.
  2. Web site: Eisenhower Avenue: The Vibrancy Might Take a Few Years. UrbanTurf. March 26, 2015.
  3. Book: Eisenhower East Plan . March 14, 2020 . City of Alexandria, Virginia . June 23, 2024.
  4. Web site: Eisenhower East Small Area Plan . City of Alexandria, Virginia. February 2020.
  5. News: Lindemon . Meredith . Carlyle Crossing to See 7 New Businesses Open . June 23, 2024 . Northern Virginia Magazine . March 17, 2023.
  6. News: Sernovitz . Daniel . National Science Foundation is relocating to its new Alexandria HQ. We take you inside . June 23, 2024 . Washington Business Journal . August 24, 2017.
  7. Web site: R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc. prepared on behalf of Hoffman Management, Inc. and the City of Alexandria . Excavations and the West Family Cemetery . City of Alexandria, Virginia . June 23, 2024.
  8. Web site: Building Statistics: Hoffman One Building, 2461 Eisenhower Ave Alexandria, VA . PennState . June 23, 2024.
  9. Web site: The Foundry - 200 Stovall Street . studios.com . June 23, 2024 . en.
  10. News: Department of Defense renews lease for 606,575 square feet in Alexandria . June 23, 2024 . Virginia Business . July 14, 2014.
  11. Web site: Restaurants & Shopping Near Carlyle Coworking Workspace Alexandria VA . Cove . June 23, 2024.
  12. Web site: Metro and Virginia officials celebrate opening of Metro Building at Eisenhower in Alexandria, home of the new Metro Integrated Command and Communications Center . WMATA . June 26, 2024 . October 27, 2023.
  13. Web site: Carlyle Place . Paradigm Companies . June 23, 2024.
  14. News: Brendel . Dan . Developer laying groundwork to go bigger in Alexandria's Eisenhower corridor . June 23, 2024 . Washington Business Journal . January 12, 2024.
  15. News: Alexandria considering big plans for properties next to Eisenhower Avenue Metro station. June 23, 2024 . ALX Now . April 18, 2024.
  16. Web site: Hoffman / Eisenhower East Coordinated Development District (CDD) Planning Commission (PDF Attachment) . City of Alexandria . June 23, 2024.
  17. Web site: Beltway's tallest building to break ground in October. August 25, 2011. Washington Business Journal. June 5, 2015.
  18. Web site: Pipeline . UrbanTurf . June 23, 2024 . en.
  19. Web site: Carlyle and Eisenhower – Alexandria VA Neighborhoods. visitalexandriava.com. March 26, 2015.
  20. Web site: General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Alexandria, VA . Public Art Archive . June 23, 2024 . en.
  21. Web site: Ike is a Highway: The Eisenhower Statue in Alexandria, Va – Brady Carlson. bradycarlson.com. March 26, 2015. November 2012.
  22. Web site: Alexandria, VA – Eisenhower – The Highway President. RoadsideAmerica.com. March 26, 2015.
  23. alexandriava.gov/historic/blackhistory/default.aspx?id=37348
  24. Web site: GAZ9527. alexandriava.gov. June 2, 2015.
  25. Web site: Historic Cemeteries of Alexandria. alexandriava.gov. June 2, 2015.
  26. Web site: GAZ9528(2). alexandriava.gov. June 2, 2015.
  27. Web site: 100-0149 Orange & Alexandria Railroad Hooff's Run Bridge . DHR . Virginia Department of Historic Resources . October 22, 2024 . en.
  28. Web site: Virginia Metrobus System Service . WMATA . June 23, 2024.

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