Construction is moving along smoothly at Stonebridge Development’s Carlyle Crossing, an upcoming mixed use center in Alexandria’s Eisenhower neighborhood. The property, which will include residential towers, shopping, and restaurants, broke ground in 2019 and this year is starting to reach substantial completion. Construction is scheduled to finish sometime in 2022.
Carlyle Crossing will be located between Mandeville Lane and Mill Road in Alexandria, just a couple blocks from the Eisenhower Avenue station on Metro’s Yellow Line. The area is already home to Hoffman Town Center, a shopping and entertainment district with office space and a newly-converted loft-style apartment building. On an adjacent lot across Mill Road, construction is ramping up for a 14-story WMATA office building. The other surrounding blocks are currently parking lots, but are planned to eventually develop similarly.
Three apartment highrises will open in roughly the next year: Easton, Dylan, and Reese. The tallest of these will be 18 stories, and all three towers will be connected by a 4-story podium building topped with private outdoor terraces. The podium, which has a one-story increase in grade from south to north, will contain parking and retail. The first floor, fronting Mandeville Lane, will have smaller retail spaces, while the second floor is being developed with Northern Virginia’s third urban-format Wegmans supermarket, and some additional retail.
Dylan and Reese will begin leasing this fall, and Easton—a community advertising larger condo-style residences—is set to start in early 2022. The Wegmans store should open around the same time. No other retail stores have been announced at this point, but hopefully by the time construction is complete and the Wegmans opens, the retail economy will have recovered enough to attract more tenants to the development.