Deanwood Community Center is a co-location project that will construct, at minimum, a LEED silver facility at 49th and Quarles Streets, NE, Washington, DC. The new facility shall include co-located functions of the Department of Parks and Recreation and Department of Public Libraries. The new facility shall include an in-door leisure swimming pool, locker rooms, gymnasium, game room, full library, childcare facilities, toilet facilities, dedicated senior area, kitchen, multi-purpose facilities, and the required mechanical and electrical supports. 

Location

Deanwood, Ward 7 - 49th and Quarles Streets, NE

Schedule and Status

Construction began in December 2008 and is scheduled to be complete in summer 2010.

Please use the following link to keep up with the status and progress: username=deanwood; password=deanwood1

Deanwood Recreation Center iBeam OnSite Camera

• Steel Signing Ceremony
  Monday, October 5, 2009 at 2pm
  1350 49th Street, NE
  Washington, DC 20019
  

Development Program

• Childcare Facility Library
• Dedicated Senior Facility
• District's First In-door Leisure Pool
• Tennis Courts/Play Fields
• Development Cost: $33 million

Community Benefits

• Civic Investments

  • Improved recreational amenities for the community
  • Opening of view corridor from the existing Hill East neighborhood to Anacostia River

• Economic Opportunities
  • Hundreds of permanent and construction jobs
  • More than 60,000 sq ft of cultural and civic
  • Elimination of vacant space and allowing use of a facility that has been closed down for several years.

• Environmental Sustainability
  • Low impact development using storm water management
  • LEED Silver

Press Release: Fenty Administration Joins Ward 7 Community to Break Ground on Deanwood Community Center and Library Project