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Board approves Crystal Drive adaptive reuse: two vacant office towers to become housing and a hotel
Summary
The County Board unanimously approved an adaptive reuse application to convert two nearly vacant office buildings on the Crystal Drive plaza block into a 195-unit apartment building and a 344-room hotel. The approval uses Arlington's recently adopted adaptive-reuse pathway and keeps most existing below-grade parking.
The Arlington County Board on July 19 voted 5-0 to permit adaptive reuse at 2100 and 2200 Crystal Drive, converting two largely vacant 11-story office towers into a 195-unit residential building and a 344-room hotel.
The project was filed under the county's adaptive reuse provisions, adopted in late 2024 as part of a commercial market resiliency initiative to give owners a streamlined pathway for converting underused office stock to housing, hotels or other uses. Staff and the applicant said the buildings are well-suited…
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