page_title: CityCenterDC
section_title: Construction
hierarchical_section_title: CityCenterDC / Construction
caption_attribution_description: English: Construction signs of the Clark-Smoot Joint Venture, the primary construction contractors at CityCenterDC. CityCenterDC is a $950 million construction project consisting of six buildings, which broke ground in April 2011 in the heart of Washington, D.C., in the United States.
context_page_description: CityCenterDC is a mixed-use development consisting of two condominium buildings, two rental apartment buildings, two office buildings, a luxury hotel, and public park in downtown Washington, D.C. It encompasses 2,000,000 square feet and covers more than five city blocks. The $950 million development began construction on April 4, 2011, on the site of the former Washington Convention Center—a 10.2-acre site bounded by New York Avenue NW, 9th Street NW, H Street NW, and 11th Street NW. Most of the development was completed and open for business by summer 2015. The luxury hotel Conrad Washington, DC, opened in February 2019.
  The development is one of the largest 21st-century downtown projects in the United States, and the largest urban development on the East Coast of the United States until the December 2012 groundbreaking of Manhattan's Hudson Yards. It has been described as "a modern-day Rockefeller Center" by Hector Falconer at the New York Times. Washington Post architectural critic Steven Pearlstein, writing in 2003, said the project will "reshape" downtown D.C.
caption: Clark Construction and the Sherman R. Smoot Co. formed a joint venture, Clark/Smoot, to provide construction services to the massive CityCenterDC project.
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