Brookland Artspace Lofts - In the News

"Intersections Artist Snapshot: Carolyn Kamrath"
J Street Jr. blog post March 4, 2012
Hey there,
   Here's an artist snapshot of dancer Carolyn Kamrath. Now, funny thing is Carolyn and I go back about 6 years. We first met at the American Dance Festival summer of '06. It wouldn't be too long before our paths crossed again, atAmerican University's Arts Management program.
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"Brookland Artspace Delivers Digs for Broke Hipsters"
Amy Rose Dobson
DC.Curbed.com,
August 23, 2011
Brookland is not yet a bona fide hipster neighborhood, but it might be after a bunch of artists move into the forty one new apartments created just for them.
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"Brookland's Artspace Lofts Nears Completion"

Eric Hope
East City Art
, June 21, 2011
Brookland’s newest artist enclave, the Artspace loft building, is nearing completion and East City Art was afforded an exclusive hard-had tour with the building’s new Property Manager, Stuart Payne of Edgewood Property Management.
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"Arts and Power Issue" features Brookland Artspace Lofts
Matt Dornic
DC Magazine,
December 2010
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"Artist space rising in Brookland"
Lydia DePillis
Washington City Paper.com,
December 10, 2011
Tucked just off busy Monroe Street NE in Brookland, an artist's paradise is taking shape: The
Artspace apartments at Danceplace, where a few dozen lucky creative types will be living and working by this time next year. Read more...

NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman's remarks from the April 30, 2010 Groundbreaking Ceremony

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"Artspace Projects, Inc. breaks ground on Brookland Artspace Lofts"
MMD Newswire.com, April 28 2010
Join Artspace Projects, Inc. on Friday, April 30 from 12:00 noon to 1 p.m. to break ground at the Brookland Artspace Lofts, 3225 8th Street, NE in Washington, DC.
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"Bognet Construction to build affordable apartments and gallery space for D.C. artists"
Jennifer Bognet
BeInkandescent,
March 2010
We at Bognet Construction are excited to break ground later this month on the new Brookland Artspace Lofts, a four-story, 57,000-square-foot arts campus in Washington, D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood.
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"District lofts project to combine housing and artists' space"

Ovetta Wiggins
Washington Post
, February, 27, 2010
A one-story warehouse in Northeast Washington where artists have come for more than 20 years to hone their craft is being transformed into an arts campus where they will not only be able to create, but also live.
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"Bognet to build Brookland apartments"
Tierney Plumb
Washington Business Journal
, February 24, 2010
Arlington-based Bognet Construction will build the Brookland Artspace Lofts, an affordable apartment complex where artists and their families can live and work.
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"DC gets a new artist community!"
Elizabeth Ward
ThePinklineProject.com
,  February 23, 2010
As an avid supporter and researcher of DC artist communities, I have spent the last half a year getting to know the multi-faceted artist neighborhoods that go unnoticed and unpublicized throughout the District.
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"Brookland Gets its Art On"
DCmud-DCRealEstate.com, January 22, 2010
One of the first new developments in the Brookland Community to actually break soil may be close at hand, as the
Dance Place and Artspace forge ahead with plans to create a $13 million arts campus. The trickling begins as developer Artspace seeks subcontractors, with bids due February 5th and the first phase of construction scheduled to begin in March. Read more...