South Eads Street Complete Street (12th St. S. to Army Navy Dr.)

Following the approval of the PenPlace Site Plan in Spring 2022, the project team moved forward with final design and engineering of the complete streets project. The PenPlace Site Plan includes the final designs for the west side of the corridor, which were used to adjust the final concept design to fit the space available in the final future condition. These designs were developed with significant public input as part of the Site Plan Review process.

The Design Update below walks you through how the design evolved from Concept to 100% Design, and highlights where changes were made to balance the needs of all modes of transportation on this important segment of S. Eads Street.

Review the Design Update

Following engagement on the concept design, the project team incorporated feedback received from the community into a final concept design for the public right-of-way included in this project. 

Learn more about the Final Concept Design

As noted in the Fall/Winter 2021 Engagement Opportunity, this project is on an accelerated timetable to allow for procurement and construction alongside the adjacent parks project. No further public engagement is scheduled, and regular updates to the community will be provided via the Crystal City-Pentagon City Transportation Update Newsletter. Sign up on the right-hand side of this page to receive these updates.

Beginning in 2021, DES staff worked on coordinating the delivery of the transportation component with the construction of the Park to be efficient and minimize construction disturbance. To do this, DES and DPR staff have developed a truncated timetable for design and delivery of both the park and the adjacent streetscape.

The project team launched a dedicated public engagement opportunity to gather input on the concept design for the County's portion of this corridor of S. Eads Street. The team gathered feedback using the online engagement form, and held a community meeting to share details about the concept design and answer questions about the project.

• View the concept design as presented
• Meeting Recording
• Meeting Slides
• Question Summary

A summary of the public engagement opportunity is available below. It includes a synopsis of what the project team heard during the engagement and next steps for this project.

• Engagement Summary
• Interactive Map Comments

Work on the County's portion of this segment of South Eads Street was put on hold when DPR’s public engagement process began in 2019, before resuming in 2021.

Transportation engagement staff worked with their counterparts at DPR to review public comments provided for the park planning effort and identify comments related to the design of the right-of-way to be incorporated into this project

Prior to these efforts, design work was undertaken to align the streetscape with the cross-section used in the South Eads Street pilot project, implemented in 2014. Initial public engagement was conducted through stakeholder meetings and presentations