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WC Smith President John Ritz (above, center) won the David H. Hillman Maverick Award, which is given each year to a commercial real estate leader by the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington (AOBA). This award was created in 2020 to highlight key characteristics of AOBA’s late member David H. Hillman, who was […]

Eight WC Smith properties placed in J Turner Research’s overall 2022 “Elite 1%” Power Ranking in its annual national survey of apartments. The properties making the list are: A total of 48 DC properties made the national list. 2701 Connecticut Ave. ranked #124 out of the 1,984 properties ranked. To be eligible for this ranking,

WC Smith celebrated its 21st Annual Property Management Awards, returning for an in-person ceremony recognizing staff members and properties for their outstanding performance and achievements. The WC Smith Excellence Awards were given to 17 employees across seven categories, including recognition for community and property management, maintenance, leasing, community and corporate administration. The company celebrated veteran

The Skyland Workforce Center reached a significant milestone recently, as it helped place its 1,000th client in a job. WC Smith and Rappaport Co. opened Skyland Workforce Center in late 2014, investing more than $700,000 to create a training resource for individuals who were seeking construction jobs at Skyland Town Center. Its mission and scope

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, Councilmember Vincent Gray, community members and many excited area residents turned out Sept. 27 for the official ribbon cutting of the Lidl grocery store at Skyland Town Center. More than 200 people were in attendance for the event and open house that followed. Lidl is the first full service grocery store

Financing closed on Terrace Manor, marking a key milestone for the development of WC Smith’s fully affordable, 130-unit multifamily project in DC’s Randle Heights neighborhood. The $79.8 million project is being financed through the DC Department of Housing and Community Development’s Housing Production Trust Fund, tax-exempt bonds and a permanent loan through the US Department

Trek Bicycles has signed a lease to open a store at Skyland Town Center, becoming the first bicycle retailer to locate east of the Anacostia River. Headquartered in Wisconsin, Trek manufactures and distributes a variety of bicycles, biking apparel, and accessories through independently operated stores across the country and subsidiaries abroad. This Skyland location will

The DC Building Industry Association (DCBIA) has honored leaders from Building Bridges Across the River, WC Smith’s nonprofit partner that company CEO and Chairman Chris Smith founded in 1997. Receiving DCBIA’s Community Impact Award are Rahsaan Bernard, president of Building Bridges; Scott Kratz, Building Bridges senior vice president and director of the 11th Street Bridge

The Crest at Skyland Town Center was a winner of a CoStar Impact Award, being named Best New Multifamily Development in the DC market by CoStar Group. The Impact Awards are CoStar’s first annual awards program designed to recognize exemplary commercial real estate transactions and projects completed in 2021 with significant influence in neighborhoods or

WC Smith welcomed DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, city and community leaders to the Jan. 8 groundbreaking of Lidl supermarket at Skyland Town Center. Lidl, recently ranked a top 3 U.S. grocer by USA Today 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards, will be the first full-service supermarket serving residents in Wards 7 and 8 to open in