Carpet Once

to make up 2.09 acres that will become home to 280 new rental units and a portion of groundfloor retail across the intersection from Founders Row 1.

The carpet store has a legacy of its own, being the one destination in the wider Northern Virginia region that was the temporary home of the Washington Football Team’s souvenir store in 1991, last time that team advanced to the Superbowl.

Then in the early part of this decade the site was leased to two creative and entrepreneurial partners, who retooled it for a renovation and conversion to a custom-made carpentry shop where stunning customized features were made on site.

The exterior of the site was also spiffed up in the process, and the men joined the local Chamber of Commerce and did a lot of advertis ing in the their business right at the outset of the Great Recession, driven by a col lapse of the housing market.. The timing could now have been worse for them.