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Developers of the District’s Southwest Waterfront successfully convinced operators of a luxury hotel, a slew of restaurants and a 6,000-capacity concert hall to sign on for space in their $1.2 billion project.

There is progress to report on the District’s largest ongoing economic development project, and in this update, we’ll take a look from the air.

Monty Hoffman is a picture of persistence. The Wharf is his canvas. Through the crumbling economy, the implosion of a key partner and the countless bureaucratic hurdles, Hoffman never lost faith in his redo of the District’s Southwest Waterfront.

You’ve heard of “The Three Rs,” right? Reducing, reusing and recycling? Well, a massive project hopes to bring all three to the heart of Washington, just south of the National Mall, by turning 15 blocks in to the “SW Ecodistrict.”

Roughly a year before Hoffman-Madison Waterfront delivers the bulk of its Southwest Waterfront overhaul known as The Wharf, the development team, with the District, will flip the switch and turn on the lights.

The first residential building at the Wharf, a 3.2 million-square-foot, $2 billion redevelopment on the Southwest Waterfront from developers PN Hoffman and Madison Marquette, will deliver in 2017.

Hoffman-Madison Waterfront, the developers of the $2 billion, world-class Wharf waterfront community in Southwest Washington, D.C., announced last week that leasing is now open for two of the office buildings included in Phase One of the development.

In the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood in the District, you can easily walk or bicycle to the water’s edge, shops, Metro station, library and playground. Residential streets are peaceful and tree-lined. Squirrels dash across sidewalks and birds chirp.