The Park Morton is located in Ward 1, just five blocks south of the Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro Station. The neighborhood is bounded by the 3100 to 3500 blocks of Georgia Avenue on the west, Warder Street on the east, Lamont Street on the south and Park Road on the north.
The Park Morton neighborhood was built in 1960 and is made up of 17 garden-style buildings with 174 walk-up units, all of which are two-bedroom units.
The Georgia Avenue corridor near Park Morton is also part of the District’s Great Street Initiative. The corridor has seen revitalization and is a pedestrian friendly with mixed-use developments.
As part of the New Communities Initiative, the Avenue was developed by Landex Companies and The Warrenton Group. This development is an 83-unit affordable housing complex with 27 replacement units. The project is the first phase of the Park Morton redevelopment.
Park Morton is located in Ward 1 proximate to the Georgia Avenue corridor, Petworth and Park View neighborhood. The community sits within one of the most diverse neighborhoods with a legacy of being a center of African American commerce and activity. Park Morton consists of 174 two-bedroom public housing units that will be redeveloped into a mixed-use, mixed-income development.
Neighbor Up Park Morton | 12.20.18
Story District, 3329 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, D.C. 20010 | 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Neighbor Up Party | 10.17.18
Bernice Fontenau Wellness Center 3531 Georgia Ave NW | 6:30 PM – 8 PM
Undesign the Redline – Citywide NeighborUp Night | 6.28.18
DC Housing Finance Agency, 815 Florida Avenue NW | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
The Park Morton Quarterly Open Steering Committee meeting was held on February 28th, 2019 at the Park View Recreation Center. Read on for updates about the Bruce Monroe Zoning Appeal, the Park Morton phasing plan and interim control funding from the Deputy Mayor for Planning for Economic Development. Meeting materials can be found below: Presentation
NCI consistently hears from residents and other stakeholders about the need to acknowledge the beauty of the existing neighborhoods where we work, even as we plan for future transformation. As one way to honor that request, NCI commissioned DC-based design company Victory Dance Creative to create a series of images that pays homage to each […]
