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Market experience

Retail

Grocery-anchored centers, urban mixed-use retail, and big-box development all depend on keeping tenants, shoppers, and construction moving at the same time. Northline’s team has delivered retail across the DC region and beyond.

1M+ SFof retail across featured projects
155,000 SFretail at City Ridge, Washington, DC
4grocery-anchored projects featured
250,000 SFTysons West retail and office
City Ridge, Washington, DC

Featured project

DC region

City Ridge

Washington, DC

City Ridge’s retail program introduced the District’s first Wegmans, constructed at the lowest level of the historic building that once housed the Fannie Mae headquarters, alongside new residences and offices on Wisconsin Avenue NW.

  • 155,000 SF of retail
  • First Wegmans grocery store in Washington, DC
  • Grocery built within the lowest level of the historic former Fannie Mae headquarters
  • Part of a 1.2M SF mixed-use program

Why Northline

We do this for a living.

Development and construction management is Northline’s daily work, not a sideline. Whether we are investing our own capital or leading a project as fee developer for an owner, the same senior team does the legwork from first underwriting to final occupancy.

  1. 01

    Underwriting grounded in cost reality

    Budgets and schedules are built by people who have managed construction on hundreds of millions of dollars of work, so the pro forma reflects what it actually takes to build.

  2. 02

    Entitlement and design discipline

    We drive approvals, design coordination, and value engineering early, when decisions cost the least and protect the most value.

  3. 03

    Procurement and execution under one roof

    Construction management, procurement, and general contracting capability inside the platform tighten schedules and reduce hand-offs.

  4. 04

    Delivered through occupancy

    The team that plans the project stays through closeout, lease-up readiness, and turnover.

Project experience

Select retail experience

9 select projects

DC region

Tysons West

Tysons, VA

  • 250,000 SF of new retail and office
  • Anchored by Walmart and 24 Hour Fitness
  • ~15,000 SF medical office; expanded parking garage

A centralized retail hub in Tysons Corner.

Aviation Station, Middle River, MD
DC region

Aviation Station

Middle River, MD

  • 205,000 SF ground-up big-box retail
  • ~46-acre phased redevelopment
  • Site infrastructure, stormwater, gas station, off-site roadways

Redevelopment of the former Martin Aviation campus into a modern commercial destination.

Yorktowne Plaza, Cockeysville, MD

Yorktowne Plaza

Cockeysville, MD

  • ~158,000 SF center anchored by Food Lion
  • New IHOP, Dunkin’, and a multi-tenant building
  • Façade renovations and a new site watermain
  • $12M hard cost

Renovation and new construction at an operating shopping center on York Road.

DC region

Pike & Rose · Phase II Retail

North Bethesda, MD

  • Two-story REI and a 37,000 SF Pinstripes
  • 35,000 SF ground-level retail at Block 7
  • Public plaza pavilion

Retail blocks within the 24-acre Pike & Rose mixed-use development.

DC region

Scout on the Circle

Fairfax, VA

  • 55,000 SF standalone Giant Food with pharmacy
  • 29,000 SF additional retail
  • Two structured garages, 725 spaces

Grocery-anchored retail within a 400-unit transit-oriented community.

DC region

South Alex

Alexandria, VA

  • 44,000 SF retail, including ALDI
  • Within a 400-unit mixed-use community

Neighborhood retail steps from the Huntington Metro station.

DC region

RTC West

Reston, VA

  • 25,000 SF standalone retail
  • 15,000 SF office-to-retail/restaurant conversion
  • Phased around three operating office buildings

A multi-phase retail project on the Sunset Hills Road corridor.

DC region

Pickett Shopping Center

Fairfax, VA

  • ~89,500 SF gross leasable area
  • Façade renovations, monument signage, roofing
  • Staples tenant build-out

Value-add improvements while maintaining shopper access.

The Shops at Gainey Village, Scottsdale, AZ

The Shops at Gainey Village

Scottsdale, AZ

  • Upscale center with 42 retail, dining, and lifestyle tenants

Tenant improvement oversight, approvals, and coordination through occupancy.

About this experience. Experience shown includes completed developments led by Northline principals through City Interests Development Partners, now part of Northline, and projects on which Northline team members provided senior development and construction management services, including work performed at prior firms. Project details reflect the program at the time of the team’s involvement.

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