Wood Partners Plans 284-Unit Project Next To Prince George’s County Wegmans
A ground-up multifamily development planned for a 20-acre plot adjacent to Woodmore Town Centre in Glenarden, Maryland, is moving ahead.
National multifamily developer and manager Wood Partners received approval from the Prince George’s County Planning Board Thursday for its plan to build a 284-unit development branded Alta Woodmore, which would feature two five-story buildings.
The attorney for the developer, Edward Gibbs, presented the proposal, which features a fitness center, pool, dog park and playground. He also presented detailed traffic plans, preservation efforts and parking capacity.
At the meeting, Glenarden council members and residents voiced concerns, largely related to what they worried would be an increase in already-congested traffic in the area.
“The traffic is horrible,” Glenarden Council President Derek Curtis said.
“We can spend all day trying to rationalize this, but it just does not make sense. This location just does not make sense.”
Prince George’s County Principal Planning Technician Benjamin Ryan countered that incoming and outgoing traffic from the proposed development is “not anticipated to add a heavy burden to the road network.”
The 245-acre area where the plot is located was zoned for mixed-use in 1988. In 2006, a conceptual site plan was formulated for 900 to 1,100 residential units, 400K SF to 1M SF of retail and 550K SF to 1M SF of office.
The Woodmore Town Centre retail complex is anchored by popular grocer Wegmans, which opened in 2010 and has helped drive strong traffic to the property. It was developed by Prudential Real Estate Investors, and the property sold early last year to New York-based Urban Edge Properties for $193.4M.
Wood Partners also developed Alloy By Alta, a multifamily building in College Park that it rebuilt after a five-alarm fire burned down the construction project, and it was just approved to develop Alta New Carrollton next to the Metro tracks.
CORRECTION, JULY 6, 6:15 P.M. ET: A previous version of this story misstated the number of units planned at the Alta Woodmore project. This story has been updated.
