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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.

The Southwest quadrant of the District is often overlooked for commercial real estate development. It is by far the smallest quadrant within D.C., and development has been slow over the past two decades.

Jackhammers pound away at the asphalt. Buildings from previous generations — deemed too old or too small — tumble into rubble. Almost everywhere, it seems, cranes tower overhead, a sign of dramatic new things to come.

The Wharf is a $1.5 billion redevelopment of the Southwest Waterfront with 26 land acres and a similar amount of water acreage with 2/3 mile of shoreline by the Hoffman-Madison Waterfront team, headed by PN Hoffman and Madison Marquette.

Perkins Eastman’s Washington, D.C., office has announced that two area projects by the design and architecture firm have been awarded 2014 Charter Awards from the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU).

Work has started on phase 1 of the Wharf on Washington in the district’s southwest waterfront. It is the beginning of a massive mixed-use project roughly a decade in the making.

After eight years of planning and lurching throught the permitting process, the massive redevelopment of DC’s Southwest Waterfront into a mixed-use complex called The Wharf finally broke ground with a two-hour event featuring five candidates running for mayor.

Developers of the long-awaited Southwest waterfront—a $1.5 billion pedestrian-friendly mixture of housing, restaurants, hotels and offices overlooking the Washington Channel—recently released a final plan that borrows heavily from Baltimore's Inner Harbor and Seattle's Pike Place.