Wisconsin Place (Friendship Heights Metro Station)

A large mixed-use, residential, retail, and commercial development at the intersection of Wisconsin and Western Avenues in Chevy Chase, MD.  The project contains a 15-story, 433-unit residential tower (480,000 sf), a new community center, a full-size Whole Foods grocery store, a 10-story office building, a new Bloomingdale’s department store, and two separate street-level retail buildings—all underlain by three levels of underground parking for 1,800 cars.  The residential tower is of post-tensioned concrete with a glass and masonry exterior.

Wisconsin Place was developed through a partnership of three national developers.  The components of the project were subdivided by a complex system of horizontal and vertical phasing lines, requiring challenging coordination between the various development and design teams.  SK&A served as the Structural Engineer of Record for the entire development and provided all structural inspection and testing required in accordance with the Montgomery County Complex Structures Agreement.