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The Shaw neighborhood's historic
Wonder Bread Factory now boasts
new office and retail space.

In a project similar to the Wonder Bread
Factory, Dewberry is providing civil engineering
for the former Hecht's Warehouse.

Rendering courtesy of Antunovich Associates

anticipated to reach LEED Gold. Sustainability measures,

services for the renovation project, which preserved

including a waterside economizer system for heating and

the brick façade of an old warehouse that dates in part

cooling and an air-to-air enthalpy heat recovery wheel

to 1913. The project was designed by R2L:Architects.

that preconditions air, serve to reduce the headquarters'

Originally the home of Dorsch's White Cross Bakery, and

energy use by nearly 34 percent over standard buildings

subsequently a bakery for Wonder Bread and Hostess

of this size.

Cake products, the property had been vacant for two

The design incorporates the cutting edge, including a

decades before the adaptive reuse project began.

Tier 3 data center with complete redundancy, as well as the

Today, the building houses 98,000 square feet of

historic: a circa-1927 C&P Telephone warehouse preserved

retail and office space on four levels plus a basement.

on the site. A locally designated historic landmark, the

Project challenges included ADA upgrades, the creation of

four-story Art Deco structure was fully restored and

underground parking, and extensive coordination of new

integrated with the new, seven-story building.

utility connections.

Creative Preservation and Adaptive Reuse

preservation success stories, Douglas Development has

Historic preservation is a hallmark of longtime D.C.

turned to the redevelopment of the circa-1937 Hecht's

development firm Douglas Development, with the

warehouse property in northeast Washington, D.C., which

recently completed Wonder Bread Factory building a

will transform the Streamline Moderne structure into a

prime example. Dewberry provided civil engineering

major mixed-use development.

With the Wonder Bread Factory now among its many

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