1828 L St NW, Washington, DC
jay.hellman@alum.mit.edu
(202) 841-1944
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Catholic University Law School lecture - (click to view Jay Hellman’s lecture)
virtual_adjacency.pdf - (slide show used during Jay Hellman’s lecture converted to a .pdf file)
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The Office Building Of The Future
Unprecedented zoning variances were won 14 July 2001 for 500 New Jersey Avenue. It was the world’s shortest public hearing: 15 minutes. There was a unanimous bench decision. The order was signed the next day. You have never seen government work that fast! But because 9/11 occurred just seven weeks later, I was forced to sell the site and a variation of that building was constructed by the NAR National Association of Realtors. Many people were very disappointed at the design change. They are delighted that we will be able to build this building they loved at 800 New Jersey Avenue (once we obtain the land from the city and re-zone it properly.)
An impressive group of people propose it to become the MIT Center in DC at 800 New Jersey Avenue, NW.
Diagonally across the street we propose a memorial to John Adams, second president of the US. The memorial would sit on National Park Service property ON Massachusetts Avenue AT the Capitol.
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Lafayette Centre
Washington, DC: The first “One-Step PUD” in DC created by Jay Hellman in 1977. New zoning was invented and alleys were re-arranged to create an incomparable urban environment.
(This photo shows you the “back alley.”)
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