3200 Wilson Blvd (staff photo by Katie Taranto)
The original design for planned development at 3200 Wilson Blvd (via Arlington County)
The original design for planned development at 3200 Wilson Blvd (via Arlington County)
The original design for planned development at 3200 Wilson Blvd (via Arlington County)
The original design for planned development at 3200 Wilson Blvd (via Arlington County)
The original design for planned development at 3200 Wilson Blvd (via Arlington County)
The original design for planned development at 3200 Wilson Blvd (via Arlington County)
Presentation plans for 3200 Wilson Blvd submitted in Mill Creek Residential’s site amendment request in April 2025 (via Arlington County)
After nearly two years of inactivity, a new developer has taken over a stalled redevelopment project in Clarendon.
Donohoe Companies, which got the greenlight to build a new apartment building and hotel at 3200 Wilson Blvd back in 2023, has backed out, a company spokesperson told ARLnow.
But another developer, Mill Creek Residential, has stepped up to the plate at the Bingham Center site — currently home to the nightlife venue Clarendon 54, Arlington Beer Garden, a mosque and some office space along Wilson Blvd.
The new developer has filed minor site plan amendments to the original project’s plans, which would redevelop the site as a 229-room hotel and an 11-story, 290-unit apartment building with ground floor retail.
The proposed changes, filed in April, would increase the apartment building’s gross floor area by 10,670 square feet, cut the number of parking spaces and relocate and reduce some of the project’s retail space.
Under Mill Creek’s plan, residential parking spaces decrease from 203 to 178, and retail parking spaces are lowered from 33 to 18. Additionally, the project’s total retail space would be nearly cut in half, from 16,131 square feet to 8,939 square feet.
Mill Creek also proposes relocating 2,500 square feet of apartment building retail space from 10th Street to “the more active and trafficked” Wilson Blvd.
In communications with the county, the new developer said these changes “better comport with [the property’s] multi-family business and operational models.”
“In addition, current market conditions, including uncertainties with federal government layoffs, tariffs, construction costs and interest rates, among other factors require the Applicant ensure that its design, construction and on-going operation are efficient and observant of market realities,” the developer wrote in a statement of justification.
The company, which declined to comment on this story, is also requesting a three-year site plan approval extension, which would go into effect on the day the amendments are approved.
County staff are currently reviewing the proposed amendments, county spokesperson Rachel LaPiana told ARLnow.