Located in Washington's Brookland neighborhood, Brookland Artspace Lofts is a partnership with Dance Place—one of the District's most prolific presents of modern dance that has helped generate a renaissance of development and investment in the area. The building includes 39 units of affordable live/work space for creatives and their families, a rehearsal studio, and two units that serve as classrooms and office space.
Artspace
Hickok Cole Architects
Dance Place
Cultural Development Corporation
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Calvert Foundation, District of Columbia Department of Housing and Community Development, National Equity Fund, District of Columbia, Neighborhood Investment Fund (Office of Deputy Mayor), TD Bank
Cafritz Foundation and MetLife Foundation
Live/Work Affordable Artist Housing
41
47,000 sq. ft.
Performance and rehearsal space, education center, administrative space, ground floor public gallery
Brookland Artspace Lofts... creates affordable housing for artists, and it also creates much needed rehearsal space. Other sectors talk a lot about the importance of research and development to maintaining a competitive advantage in the world at large. Well, in the arts, rehearsal space is our research and design space, and there is a direct line between that and our creative competitive advantage in the world.
