Job Highlights

W.B. Hopke continues to make progress with the ongoing wet utilities work at Sidwell Friends, a new Upper School located at 3720 Upton Street, N.W. Washington DC. The Upton Street Building, which was once the Washington Home and Community Hospice’s nursing home, has been transformed into a new upper school which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2026.

The new expansion at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Northern Virginia is well under way in Aldie, VA. The expansion off the main rehabilitation hospital consists of a smaller building and includes 9 modular building units that will provide life-changing care to patients in the area. Encompass Health Rehabilitation located at 24430 Millstream Dr. Aldie, VA is a leading provider of inpatient rehabilitation for patients suffering from stroke, brain injury, hip fracture and other neurological and orthopedic conditions.

In late September 2024, the Inova Health System broke ground on two new hospitals in Alexandria and Falls Church, respectively. Each hospital is considered an acute care hospital and will replace Inova Alexandria Hospital to become Inova Franconia-Springfield, joining Inova HealthPlex as the systems first hospital in Springfield, Virginia. Inova Franconia-Springfield will be state-of-the-art offering patients in Northern Virginia and the region world-class medical treatment.

In late September 2024, the Inova Health System broke ground on two new hospitals in Alexandria and Falls Church, respectively. Each hospital is considered an acute care hospital and will replace Inova Alexandria Hospital to become Inova Franconia-Springfield, joining Inova HealthPlex as the systems first hospital in Springfield, Virginia. Inova Franconia-Springfield will be state-of-the-art offering patients in Northern Virginia and the region world-class medical treatment.

Construction continues in Tysons Corner at the home of Capital One’s headquarters located at 1820 Capital One Drive, McLean, VA. Known as the Capital One Block D project, W.B. Hopke was awarded the wet utilities project, which is now about is 45% complete. Overseen by general contractor Gilbane Building Company, Hopke was awarded the wet utilities work on July 19, 2024 which includes sanitary, storm, water and drainage.

What began as a concept and catalyst project in Bailey’s Crossroad is becoming a reality. The ATLA Crossroads project, a new five-story apartment building located at 5851 Columbia Pike in Falls Church, VA, will include 361 apartments and three townhomes. The Wood Partners project which began in March of 2023 and is scheduled for completion in 2025, will include twelve percent of the building for affordable dwelling units (ADU’s). The project includes an activated streetscape, public park spaces and housing.

Renovations of Joseph Hensley Park, located at 4200 Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, VA, began in 2018 by Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities (RPCA) and the City of Alexandria. The initial recommendations proposed in 2014 were amended in 2021 for the implementation for improvements to be scheduled in two phases.

Construction at the 55,667 SF redevelopment project site located at 1031 N. Vermont Street Arlington, VA 22201, between 11th Street and Vermont in the Ballston area, was the original location of a two-story church and an adjacent parking lot. The site is now being transformed into a beautiful mixed-use residential community of townhomes and multi-family units in the heart of Ballston.

The Hazel National Landing apartment building, located at 3030 Potomac Avenue in Arlington, VA, consists of two mixed-use apartment buildings bordered by Crystal City, Pentagon City and Potomac Yard. The two buildings, totaling 15 and 11 stories respectively, include 491 residential units, 527,000 square feet of space, additional retail space and is an extension of the Potomac Yards Central Park.

W.B. Hopke continues its work on the wet utilities installation at 7700 Leesburg Pike, aka Tysons Ridge in Falls Church, VA. The 104 multi-unit townhouse project, which Hopke began on February 22, 2023, is approximately 85% complete.