Delivered Projects
The Miner Building
Address: 2565 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001 United States
General Contractor: MCN Build
Delivered: Q4 2024
Project Type: Academic building for the School of Education & Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science
Total Developed Square Feet: 78,132 GSF
Development Partner: Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners (Owner’s Representative)
Mission Alignment: The Miner Building’s $50‑million restoration breathes new life into a century‑old monument to Black teacher training while anchoring Howard’s $785 million campus master plan. By co‑locating the School of Education with the Howard University Middle School of Mathematics & Science, the 78k GSF upgrade creates a “living laboratory” that feeds a PK‑to‑Ph.D. pipeline of educators and STEM leaders, fulfilling Howard Forward’s pillars of Academic Excellence and Inspiring New Knowledge. The project preserves a listed National Register landmark through sensitive, LEED‑oriented rehabilitation, demonstrating stewardship of Black educational heritage. Its financing and delivery, led by D.C.–based Jair Lynch and MCN Build, advance the University’s goals for diverse project participation and local economic impact, while the activated Georgia Avenue frontage extends tutoring, research, and community‑engagement programs that strengthen Howard’s role as an anchor institution.
The Oliver
Address: 2711 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001
General Contractor: Coakley & Williams Construction
Delivered: Early 2024
Project Type: Howard faculty, staff & graduate/professional student housing (mixed-use with university offices)
Total Developed Square Feet: 145,000 GSF
Development Partner: Rock Creek Property Group
Mission Alignment: Expands on-campus housing for scholars and employees, anchors Howard’s northern gateway, and unifies key administrative units (Development & Alumni Relations, University Communications) to strengthen fundraising, community engagement, and long-term stewardship of university-owned real estate, all while meeting DC’s housing-creation goals.
Howard Manor
Address: 654 Girard Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001
Development Partner: Urban Investment Partners
Delivered: Q4, 2023
Project Type: Flex-Industrial
Number of Units: 80
Total Developed Square Feet: 49,615 sq. ft.
Development Partner: UIP / Neighborhood Development Corporation
Mission Alignment: This renovation gave birth to 80 permanently affordable homes capped at 60 percent of area median income for 99 years, fulfilling the University’s 2017 pledge to deliver 50‑100 affordable units near its campus and bolstering the District’s housing‑equity targets. The renovation preserves the structure’s mid‑century character while modernizing interiors and systems, pairing historic stewardship with upgraded livability. A $31.3 million low‑interest loan from Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund, combined with Howard’s ground‑lease partnership with Urban Investment Partners, showcases an innovative public‑private financing model that extends capital access and underscores Howard’s commitment to community‑business participation. By anchoring quality, income‑restricted housing on the campus edge, the project stabilizes longtime residents, offers proximate options for faculty, staff, and graduate students, and strengthens neighborhood ties, demonstrating Howard’s role as a civic institution dedicated to equitable development and inclusive growth.
Carver/Slowe Halls
Address: 211 Elm St NW / 1919 3rd St NW
Development Partner: Urban Investment Partners
Delivered: Q3, 2019
Project Type: Market Rate Apartments
Number of Units: 166
Total Developed Square Feet: 143,000 sq. ft.
Development Partner: UIP / Neighborhood Development Corporation
Mission Alignment: By ground‑leasing the historic Carver and Slowe dormitories to Urban Investment Partners and turning them into 166 market‑rate apartments, Howard University secures a durable revenue stream that funds student scholarships and other campus modernization priorities while retaining long‑term ownership of the assets. The redevelopment embeds hands‑on learning: the partnership agreement guarantees internships and real‑time exposure to the project, giving students a front‑row seat. Structurally, the deal showcases community-led development and reserves priority marketing of finished units for Howard faculty, staff, graduate students, and alumni, ensuring the project’s economic benefits circulate within the University community. Together, these elements advance Howard’s strategic goals of diversifying income, expanding experiential learning, and strengthening the surrounding LeDroit Park neighborhood without sacrificing stewardship of its historic buildings.
The Axis at Howard
Address: 2225 Georgia Ave. NW
Development Partner: Howard University / Provident Group
Delivered: Q3, 2019
Project Type: On-Campus University Housing
Number of Units: 176
Total Developed Square Feet: 90,000 sq. ft.
Mission Alignment: The Axis at Howard repurposes the former Howard University Inn into 176 contemporary apartments with study lounges, fitness and business centers, giving students, faculty and staff a fresh on‑campus housing option that advances Howard Forward’s call for state‑of‑the‑art student life facilities. Renovated through a $31 million, tax‑exempt, off‑balance‑sheet financing led by Provident Resources Group, the project delivered a $2 million upfront payment and annual residual cash flows to the University while preserving its capital base. Axis was later folded into Howard’s $316 million 2023 bond refinancing that underpins the Central Campus Master Plan, further extending cost savings and portfolio‑wide operating efficiencies. Loop Capital, Hayat Brown and other community‑owned firms underwrote and advised the transaction, and the building’s ground‑floor Barnes & Noble bookstore and Starbucks keep Georgia Avenue activated, ensuring robust community and local‑business participation in both construction and ongoing operations.
Harriet Tubman Quadrangle
Address: 2455 4th St. NW
Development Partner: Howard University / Provident Group
Delivered: Q3, 2019
Project Type: On-Campus University Housing
Number of Units: 665 beds
Total Developed Square Feet: 290,000 Sq. Ft.
Mission Alignment: The Harriet Tubman Quadrangle’s $69.8 million transformation supplies 665 modern first‑year beds across five historic residence halls, turning the 290 k SF complex into a vibrant living‑learning hub that meets Howard Forward’s call for state‑of‑the‑art student life facilities. Structured through tax‑exempt revenue bonds issued to Provident Group‑Tubman Quad Properties, the deal kept the project off Howard’s balance sheet, preserving university capital while producing a dependable housing revenue stream. Broad community participation underpinned the effort: District civic groups supported the financing, local contractors captured work, and the refreshed Quad now animates LeDroit Park’s streetscape, channeling foot traffic and spend to neighborhood businesses. Collectively, the project exemplifies Howard’s commitment to delivering excellent student amenities, safeguarding fiscal resources, and partnering with the wider D.C. community for equitable campus growth.
AME at Meridian Hill
Address: 2601 16th St. NW
Development Partner: Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners
Delivered: Q2, 2019
Project Type: Market Rate Apartments
Number of Units: 206
Total Developed Square Feet: 180,000 Sq. Ft.
Mission Alignment:
Howard University granted Jair Lynch a 99‑year ground lease that injected $22 million in upfront proceeds while allowing the University to retain the land beneath its former Meridian Hill Hall dormitory, ensuring long‑term community stewardship and ownership. The adaptive‑reuse delivered 206 luxury units within a historic, 180k SF structure, turning an idle asset into revenue that can fund scholarships and other priorities, and giving Howard students internships and real‑time exposure, advancing the University’s experiential‑learning goals and demonstrating community‑focused delivery.
Trellis House
Address: 2455 4th St. NW
Development Partner: Howard University / Provident Group
Delivered: Q3, 2019
Project Type: On-Campus University Housing
Number of Beds: 665 beds
Total Developed Square Feet: 290,000 Sq. Ft.
Mission Alignment: Through a 50‑year ground lease that kept the land in Howard’s hands yet tapped private capital, Trellis House converts a long‑underused 1.3‑acre parcel at the campus edge into a 319‑unit, LEED‑Platinum community where 36 apartments—11 percent of the building’s floor area, above D.C.’s 8 percent inclusionary‑zoning minimum—are reserved for households earning 60–80 percent of AMI, with nine of those affordable homes set aside specifically for Howard faculty, staff, and graduate students. The development also earmarks market‑rate units for University affiliates, offers paid job‑training scholarships to neighborhood residents, and channels construction and operations work to local community‑owned firms, advancing Howard Forward’s pillars of economic inclusion and community impact.
College Hall (North & South)
Address: 2225 Georgia Ave. NW
Development Partner: Howard University / Provident Group
Delivered: Q3, 2019
Project Type: On Campus University Housing
Number of Units: 176
Total Developed Square Feet: 90,000 Sq. Ft.
Development Partner: UIP / Neighborhood Development Corporation
Mission Alignment:
College Hall North & South add 176 suite‑style beds with fitness rooms, computer labs, study lounges, and other 24‑hour amenities that elevate the first‑ and second‑year student experience and advance Howard Forward’s call for modern living‑learning facilities. The twin halls were delivered through a 40‑year ground lease with nonprofit Provident Group – Howard Properties, which issued roughly $114 million in District tax‑exempt revenue bonds to design, build, and furnish the complex; this off‑balance‑sheet financing preserved University capital while ensuring eventual reversion of the asset to Howard at lease end and bond retirement. Together, the project demonstrates Howard’s strategy of coupling state‑of‑the‑art student life upgrades with fiscally prudent public‑private partnerships.
Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall
Address: Bldg 23 2419 Sixth St NW Unit 202, FL 2 Washington, DC 20001
General Contractor: Gilbane Building Company
Delivered: Q3, 2021
Project Type: Academic Building
Total Developed Square Feet: 67,000 sq ft
Development Partner: N/A
Mission Alignment: Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall’s 2021 modernization safeguards one of Howard’s most storied landmarks, home to civil‑rights scholarship that helped shape the NAACP’s strategy in Brown v. Board of Education, while outfitting its 67 k SF interior with state‑of‑the‑art lecture halls, smart boards, advanced A/V, and full ADA upgrades. These investments fuse historic preservation with 21st‑century pedagogy, supporting Howard Forward pillars of Academic Excellence and Inspiring New Knowledge, expanding accessible learning for the College of Arts & Sciences, and ensuring the facility remains a living laboratory for social‑justice inquiry for generations to come.
Wayne A.I. Frederick Undergraduate Library
Address: 500 Howard Pl NW Washington, DC 20059 United States
General Contractor: MCN Build
Delivered: Q3, 2021
Project Type: Academic Building
Total Developed Square Feet: 92,000 GSF
Development Partner: N/A
Mission Alignment: Renamed the Wayne A. I. Frederick Undergraduate Library upon completion, the 92 k GSF overhaul converts a 1980s facility into a technology‑rich learning commons with collaborative study zones, conference rooms, a café, and other student‑centered amenities, advancing Howard Forward’s pillars of Academic Excellence and enhancing day‑to‑day undergraduate success through flexible, digitally enabled spaces.
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300 Bryant Street NW (Former Washington Metropolitan High School)
Address: 300 Bryant St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States
General Contractor: MCN Build
Delivered: Q1, 2023
Project Type: Academic Building for the School of Communication
Total Developed Square Feet: 63,934 GSF
Development Partner: N/A
Mission Alignment: Through a four‑year lease with the District of Columbia, Howard University transformed the long‑vacant Washington Metropolitan High School, giving the Cathy Hughes School of Communications 63.9 k GSF of updated studios, newsrooms, and classrooms while its permanent home on the main campus is modernized. The arrangement preserves university capital, prevents program displacement, and reactivates a public asset in Ward 1, advancing Howard Forward’s pillars of Academic Excellence and Community Impact. Local Certified Business Enterprise MCN Build led the phased renovation, channeling contract dollars, internships, and workforce opportunities to community‑owned firms and D.C. residents, underscoring Howard’s commitment to inclusive economic development and town‑and‑gown partnership.