The day after Washington, D.C., elected its next mayor, Janeese Lewis George put one of the most consequential real estate decisions in the city’s recent memory back on the table.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Lewis George said she would not commit to Therme Group’s proposed $550M thermal wellness resort as the anchor tenant at Poplar Point — the 110-acre site along the eastern bank of the Anacostia River that city leaders have debated, planned, and left undeveloped for the better part of three decades. Her message was precise: the incoming administration would pursue a broader competition, with housing production and affordability as the standard against which any proposal would be tested.
Lewis George said she did not want to “foreclose proposals by declaring that Therme is what’s going to be there.” She added that Therme remained welcome to compete for a role at the site but that she would not treat the company’s existing selection as final, as reported by Bisnow…