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Red Lion Demolition

Demolition has begun at the Red Lion Hotel as plans to replace it with a 441-unit apartment building move forward.

Crews have been at work at 1501 Arlington Blvd, demolishing brick structures built in the 1950s as Reston-based Orr Partners plans to build an eight-story apartment building on the 2.2-acre site.

Construction on the project in the Radnor-Fort Myer Heights neighborhood is expected to wrap up in fall 2027, an Orr Partners spokesperson told ARLnow.

The Arlington County Board approved redevelopment plans in January 2024. In addition to demolishing the Red Lion Hotel, which opened as the Best Western Iwo Jima hotel in 1958, the project will replace the Ellis Arms and Williamsburg apartments, which were built in 1954.

While demolition is removing some existing market-rate affordable units, the developer has proposed to replace them with 24 on-site committed affordable units.

The project is expected to include 256 parking spaces at a ratio of 0.58 spaces per unit.

Orr Partners took over never-realized plans to build a 10-story condo tower and a 12-story hotel on the site, which the County Board approved in 2019. A public review process for current redevelopment plans kicked off in August 2023.

See the original article on the ARLnow.com

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