A Rare Opportunity to Reimagine a Well-Located 20,500 SF Asset in One of Northern Virginia’s Most Desirable Urban Environments
1400 Russell Road presents a compelling opportunity to acquire a 20,500-square-foot specialty property on 1.26 acres in Alexandria’s highly sought-after North Ridge/Rosemont area. With its substantial building footprint, generous site, established landscaping, and approximately 43 onsite parking spaces, the property offers a strong foundation for an owner, institution, or developer seeking to create a distinctive project in an exceptionally well-located and established community.
Currently utilized as a religious facility, the property offers the potential for continued institutional use or thoughtful adaptive reuse, including education, nonprofit, community, and other compatible uses, such as townhouse development subject to applicable zoning and governmental approvals. The combination of an existing large-scale structure and a sizable parcel creates an opportunity to explore a range of potential strategies while preserving the character and advantages of the existing site.
A Location That Creates Opportunity
The property is positioned within the North Ridge/Rosemont neighborhood, one of Alexandria’s established residential communities, offering an unusually attractive combination of accessibility, demographics, and proximity to the region’s major employment, cultural, and lifestyle centers.
Two Metrorail stations—Braddock Road and King Street—are each within approximately one mile, providing convenient access to Washington, D.C., and the broader metropolitan area. I-395 is readily accessible, while Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is approximately 10 minutes away, making the property exceptionally convenient for both local and regional connectivity.
The property is also located minutes from Old Town Alexandria, with its nationally recognized dining, retail, entertainment, waterfront, and historic character. The surrounding residential market is mature and highly established, supported by strong household incomes and a desirable Northern Virginia demographic profile.
A Platform for Creative Repositioning
What makes 1400 Russell Road particularly interesting is the combination of scale, land, location, and an existing structure in an area where opportunities of this nature are limited.
For the right developer or end user, the property could serve as a platform for a variety of concepts—from a sophisticated institutional or educational use to a thoughtfully designed community-oriented destination or other adaptive-reuse strategy. The existing improvements provide an opportunity to potentially leverage the property's current physical infrastructure while exploring a new vision for the site, subject to zoning, entitlement, and other required approvals.
1400 Russell Road represents an opportunity to acquire a substantial, well-positioned asset in an established Alexandria neighborhood and unlock its next chapter. For a developer with the vision to thoughtfully reposition the property, the combination of location, scale, accessibility, and site characteristics warrants serious consideration.