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1090 Vermont Avenue

Washington, Italy

1090 Vermont Avenue

1090 Vermont Avenue NW is a high-rise modernist office building in Washington, D.C., which is tied with the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel as the fourth-tallest commercial building in the city (as of January 2010). The building is 187 feet (57 metres) high and has 12 floors. It contained about 160,

000 square feet (15,000 square metres) of space when it first opened, but only 150,000 square feet (14,000 square metres) by 1998. Internal build-outs increased the interior space to 187,000 square feet (17,400 square metres) by 2006. Several small buildings and a surface parking lot originally occupied the 14,927-square foot (1,388 square metre) site. The John Akridge Companies acquired the location in January 1979 for about $200 a square foot. The buildings and parking lot were razed, and construction began in the spring of 1979. The John Akridge Companies designed and built the structure. The building was jointly financed by Akridge and Mitsui Fudosan America, the United States branch of the giant Japanese real estate firm Mitsui Fudosan. The building was largely completed in 1979. Although still under construction in April 1980, 90 percent of the building's space had already been leased...

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