Mega-project · Penn Quarter, Washington, DC

600 E St. NW office-to-apartments conversion with Sprouts, Washington

The D.C. Council approved up to $275 million in bond financing for Madrone, a Berkeley-based nonprofit developer, to convert the vacant 325,000-square-foot former Justice Department office building at 600 E St. NW into 415 apartments, mainly for college students, faculty and staff, with a 25,000-square-foot Sprouts Farmers Market on the ground floor and a 140-space underground garage.

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This is a private project: its trade work is bought by the owner's contractors, not posted as a public bid. Project facts come from the linked public sources; the nearby bids are a live query of open public solicitations. Always confirm details on the official notice.
Owner
Madrone (developer)
Site
600 E St. NW, Washington, DC 20004
Investment
$275M
Status
Announced
Groundbreaking
Not yet
Expected to open
Not announced
Jobs
Not announced

General contractor

Not yet publicly named. This is a private project, so its trade work is bought by the general contractor or construction manager, not posted as a public bid. We'll update this page when the firm is announced.

How to get work on it

  1. The general contractor has not been named. It will buy nearly every trade package, so watch for the announcement and get on its bidder list as soon as it is named.
  2. Office-to-residential conversions repeat the same unit layouts hundreds of times: plumbing, drywall, cabinets, flooring and finish subs who can staff a 415-unit job are the ones primes look for.
  3. The Sprouts store is a separate tenant build-out (reported $6 million tenant allowance) and is often bought by the grocer's own contractor. Refrigeration and grocery fit-out specialists should follow Sprouts' construction team.
  4. D.C. projects with public financing usually carry local hiring and small-business goals. Certify with the D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development (CBE) if you qualify.

Trades a build like this needs

Typical for this kind of facility, not a published bid list.

  • Interior demolition and abatement of a long-vacant office building
  • Structural alterations for residential layouts, new shafts and openings
  • Plumbing for 415 apartments (kitchens and baths throughout)
  • HVAC: new residential systems replacing office systems
  • Electrical, fire alarm, sprinkler and low voltage
  • Framing, drywall, doors, cabinets, flooring and finishes
  • Window, facade and roofing work
  • Grocery fit-out for the ground-floor Sprouts: refrigeration, kitchen and store build-out
  • Garage, elevator and fitness/coworking amenity work

Public buyers around the site

The county roads, water, sewer and school work a project this size brings does post publicly. These are the buyers we read nearby.

22 open solicitations from buyers around the site

Soonest deadline first · 10 closing in the next 7 days. Each links to its official notice.

Sources

Project facts last checked November 13, 2026.

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