WTOP News
by Jeff Clabaugh

D.C. developer Level 2 Development has filled in a piece of the retail puzzle at its new Highline Union Market apartment building, with Orangetheory signing on.

The 12-story Highline Union Market apartment building, at 320 Florida Ave., N.E., has an unusual architectural design, with framed glass cubes that weave in and out of the Florida Avenue facade at varying depths.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Next Tuesday, Oct. 11,  Habitat for Humanity of Washington, D.C. (DC Habitat) and Level 2 Development (Level 2) will be joined by Mayor Muriel Bowser and community members to celebrate the groundbreaking of 12 new affordable homes in Ivy City. The event kicks off the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development's (CNHED) Community Development Week, a series of events highlighting the ways that Coalition members are creating a District of Columbia where all residents can thrive.

Prince of Petworth 

“Level 2 Development, LLC (Level 2) filed a Planned Unit Development (PUD) Application with the Zoning Commission for their latest project, The Highline at Union Market, a 315 unit mixed-use apartment building with 8,472 square feet of retail at the front steps to the burgeoning Union Market district in Washington, DC. Located one block from the NoMa/Gallaudet Red Line Metro Station at 320 Florida Ave., NE, The Highline at Union Market will connect the NoMa and Union Market neighborhoods.

Washington Business Journal 
by Daniel J. Sernovitz

Level 2 Development is planning to develop a 315-unit mixed-use apartment project near Union Market that it hopes will pay homage to New York's Meatpacking District at a gateway site leading into the District's NoMa neighborhood.

Level 2, which is also a part of the team working with Edens to remake the 45-acre Union Market, has filed a Planned Unit Development Application with the District to build 315 apartment units and just shy 

Urban Turf
by Lark Turner 

Level 2 Development’s 315-unit project adjacent to Union Market has set a planned delivery date for late 2018.

The project, dubbed The Highline at Union Market — undoubtedly a nod to the urban-industrial aesthetic of the New York project bearing the same name — will be built on the site of a Burger King at 320 Florida Avenue NE (map). Developers filed a planned-unit development application for the

District Source
by Shaun Courtney 

Level 2 Development filed a Planned Unit Development (PUD) Application with the Zoning Commission this week for a proposed 315-unit apartment building with 8,472 square feet of retail at 320 Florida Ave. NE, steps from Union Market and the NoMa Metro on the current site of a Burger King.

The project, dubbed The Highline at Union Market, is a joint venture of Level 2 Development and Clark Enterprises, Inc. 

Globe Street
by Erika Morphy 

WASHINGTON, DC--Level 2 Development has filed a Planned Unit Development Application with DC's Zoning Commission for a 315-unit, mixed-use apartment project that it hopes to develop jointly with Clark Enterprises.

The building, which will be called The Highline at Union Market, will have 8,472 square feet of retail and be located next to the Union Market district at 320 Florida Ave., NE.

Washington Post
by Shilpi Malinowski

Could a warehouse-filled, traffic-clogged District neighborhood one day match the post-industrial glamour of New York City’s Meatpacking District?

Inspired by the famed New York neighborhood known for its trendy restaurants, boutiques and bars, Level 2 Development is seeking to transform a site at 320 Florida Ave. NE — currently home to a Burger King and some weedy overgrowth — into a 315-unit

Washington Post 
by Ron Charles

In a move to expand its retail operation and cultural offerings, Politics and Prose Bookstore will open five satellite locations in Busboys and Poets restaurants around the Washington area.

Under an arrangement announced Thursday, the venerable bookstore in Chevy Chase will stock and manage the retail book sections of all but one of the current and planned Busboys and Poets owned by entrepreneur-artist-activist Anas “Andy” Shallal. The mini-stores, staffed by 

The Washington Post
by Michele Lerner

Federal Capital Partners and Level 2 Development recently began leasing Takoma Central, a new 150-unit apartment building in Northwest Washington’s Takoma D.C. neighborhood adjacent to the Takoma Metro station.

The building’s first floor will be occupied by a Busboys and Poetsr estaurant, and residents will be able to walk to the neighborhood’s eclectic mix of shops and restaurants as well as the year-round Takoma Park Farmers Market.

Gazette.net
by Kevin James Shay

Takoma Central, a 150-unit apartment community with retailers that include a new Busboys and Poets coffeehouse and bookstore, should open by late fall in Washington, D.C., just over the Takoma Park border, officials say.

The development on Carroll Street near the Takoma Metro station was originally slated to open in the spring. It is expected to provide a boost to the nearby Old Takoma commercial district with more residents available to shop and dine at the businesses in Takoma Park, said Laura Barclay,

Washington Business Journal
by Daniel J. Sernovitz

Level 2 Development, part of the team working with Edens to remake part of the 45-acre Union Market in Northeast D.C., is spreading out with plans to redevelop another site nearby.

An affiliate of Level 2, 320 Florida Owner LLC, bought the Burger King site at 320 Florida Ave. NE July 22 for about $8.8 million. It picked up the property from Lionstone Investments, a Texas-based real estate investment trust that had owned it since 2006.

Washington Post
by Liz Essley Whyte

Julie Williams’ studio apartment is about the size of a large master bedroom, except that a kitchen and bathroom are crammed in as well. At 350 square feet, it’s the smallest apartment she’s ever lived in, and she loves it.

“I previously lived in a two-bedroom [in Olney, Md.], but I would rather live here,” says the 36-year-old National Institutes of Health employee, who is one of a new wave of renters willing to swap space for the ideal location. “I have everything

Takoma Park News
by Roz Grigsby

A tower crane rising from the depths of the muddy excavation site is a sign that work is underway again at Takoma Central, the long-awaited development at the corner of Carroll Street and Maple avenue on the Takoma Park/Takoma, D.C. line. With the arrival of heavy equipment and a load of steel I-beams, one of the most visible  developments in the Takoma area seems to be back on track. 

Washington Post 
by Clinton Yates

Abinet Birrratu, a student at a nearby Strayer campus, stops in for a snack at Takoma Bistro, in Takoma Park, Maryland, on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. At right, Katrina Browne enjoys the quiet ambience of the restaurant. A new Busboys and Poets Restaurant will bring more dining options to the neighborhood which straddles the DC/Maryland border. (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post) (Nikki Kahn - THE WASHINGTON POST) Looks like Andy Shallal has struck gold. The owner of Busboys and Poets, the highly successful chain of Washington

Washington Post Capitol Business Blog
by Jonathan O'Connell

Shortly after Andy Shallal opened Busboys and Poets on 14th Street NW in 2005, he said he began receiving a stream of e-mails and phone calls from residents of the Takoma neighborhood of D.C. and its Maryland neighbor, Takoma Park, a neighborhood long known for its counter-culturism.

Would Shallal, an Iraqi-American whose opposition to the invasion of Iraq helped put Busboys on the map, consider opening a location there?

The e-mails never stopped, and on Tuesday, Shallal decided that he would answer them by signing a lease to open a 6,500-square-foot Busboys in a new retail-and-apartment project