5500 WISCONSIN

it's time to bring energy back to friendship heights

Donohoe Development and Carr City Centers have joined together to redevelop a portion of the 5500 block of Wisconsin Avenue, including a new, high-quality apartment building with small, locally-focused shops and cafés on the ground floor – all surrounded by an innovative and attractive streetscape that will enhance the pedestrian experience on The Hills Plaza, South Park Avenue, and Wisconsin Avenue.

bringing back retail

Friendship Heights has experienced a series of retail and restaurant closings over the past years. By bringing in new residents and reimagining the retail equation, Friendship Heights will attract the kind of retail and dining that Village residents will enjoy for decades to come.
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our plans include:

Maintaining the Courtyard by Marriott.
Adding an apartment building of up to 380 apartments with a maximum height of 180 feet, similar to other Friendship Heights buildings.
Providing up to 15,000 square feet of commercial and retail with shops and cafes on the ground floor.
Offering 15% of the apartments as Moderately Priced Dwelling Units, for professionals who cannot afford the traditionally high rents in the community, such as teachers and first responders. This will be the only building in Friendship Heights Village to offer MPDUs.

Adding a new connection from The Hills Plaza to Wisconsin Avenue.

Learn about 5500

Thanks to the more than 100 people who registered for our June 9 virtual Community Meeting. We appreciate everyone’s interest in the project, and the neighbors’ comments were most helpful.

View our presentation slides

View the presentation recording

Schedule a 5500 Wisconsin Presentation

Over the past few months, we’ve presented our plans at meetings with numerous Friendship Heights organizations and condominium associations, chatted with neighbors at our table at the Friendship Heights Farmers’ Market, held a community-wide forum and presented our plans to the Friendship Heights Village Council. We thoroughly enjoyed getting to know so many of our neighbors and hearing their comments.

If your association would like to schedule a presentation,
please contact us at community@5500 Wisconsin.com.