Buyers & Sellers Articles Blog Fenty launches SW Waterfront demolition
| 17 August 2010
Mayor Adrian Fenty kicked off the demolition of Hogate's restaurant on the Southwest Waterfront — literally, behind the controls of a bulldozer — in an event best described as one part economic development announcement, one part campaign function, the Washington Business Journal reports.
Hogate's, at 800 Water St. SW, will be bulldozed to make way, eventually, for the Hoffman-Struever Waterfront LLC's massive, $1 billion mixed-use development on the waterfront. In the meantime, the building site will function as, well, something. We don't know yet, but city officials suggested a playground, a farmer's market or "temporary uses for several months at a time."
Perhaps a future home for the Washington Kastles? Or Cirque de Soleil? We'll see.
