INDUSTRIAL LAND IN A POST-INDUSTRIAL CITY District of ...

District of Columbia Industrial Areas Study DC Office of Planning
Prepared by Phillips Preiss Shapiro Associates, Inc.
Moreover, most of this limited amount of industrial land is already occupied, and therefore
existing PDR businesses have limited room to expand in place and the District has little
potential of attracting of new PDR businesses. By our calculations, only about 27 acres, or 1.2
percent, of the land in industrial areas is vacant (this calculation does not include the 3.7 acres
of vacant land that is zoned for residential use). 12
Table 2.19: Vacant Parcels, by Zoning and Sub-Area
Name Zone
Vacant
properties
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Area (sq.ft) Area (acres) Percent that
is Vacant
Anacostia Poplar Point C-2-A 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
Anacostia Poplar Point C-M-1 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
Anacostia Poplar Point GOV 6 83,290.00 1.91 19.84%
Anacostia Poplar Point W-3 19 196,027.00 4.50 20.27%
25 279,317.00 6.41 11.06%
Water Street, SE C-M-1 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
Benning Road C-M-1 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
Benning Road M 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
Bladensburg/Fort Lincoln C-M-1 1 1,061.00 0.02 0.11%
Bladensburg/Fort Lincoln GOV 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
1 1,061.00 0.02 0.10%
CSX1 C-2-C 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
CSX1 C-3-A 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
CSX1 C-M-1 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
CSX1 C-M-2 1 2,130.00 0.05 0.09%
CSX1 M 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
1 2,130.00 0.05 0.03%
CSX1 - Brookland C-M-1 3 89,822.00 2.06 3.73%
CSX1 - Fort Totten C-M-1
FT/C-3-
2 8,388.00 0.19 26.57%
CSX1 - Fort Totten
A
FT/C-
4 23,509.00 0.54 3.40%
CSX1 - Fort Totten
M-1 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
CSX1 - Fort Totten FTM 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
CSX1 - Fort Totten GOV 0 0.00 0.00 0.00%
12 In an analysis of the District’s land capacity, HNTB Associates calculated that only 25.2 acres in C-M and M zones
were vacant. See HNTB 2005. Land Capacity in the District of Columbia. Memo to the Comp Plan Task Force.
February 24, 2005.