Art Place At Fort Totten Adds Onelife Fitness, Salon Suites

WASHINGTON, DC — Art Place at Fort Totten has signed two new tenants to fill the large amount of retail space at the multi-family residential, retail, cultural, art, educational and entertainment development.

Onelife Fitness and Phenix Salon Suites have joined a list of retailers at the mixed-use development, with 16- and 10-year leases, respectively.

The owners of the development, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, wanted to provide easy access to retail and the arts for new residents of Art Place at Fort Totten.

“As we continue with the second phase of construction at Art Place, Onelife Fitness and Phenix Salon Suites will bring valuable amenities to the growing Fort Totten community,” Jane Cafritz of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation said in a statement.

The Fort Totten site will be Onelife Fitness’s first location in the District of Columbia. The fitness center has 16 locations in Maryland and Virginia. The fitness center, which will have space on two floors, will be located below The Modern apartments at Art Place.

Phenix Salon, a boutique concept that offers beauty and wellness professionals the opportunity to own and operate their own business, is expected to open in early 2022 in the retail area below The Modern.

At full build-out, Art Place will include nearly 2 million square feet of mixed-use space. The Modern, which is the first phase of the Art Place development, includes 520 apartments and almost 100,000 square feet of retail space.

Other retailers at the Modern include Love and Care Development Center, Ramdass Pharmacy, ShiningStars Pediatric Dentistry and T-Mobile.

Art Place’s second phase, expected to open in 2024, will include hundreds of new apartments as well as more than 300,000 square feet of retail, arts and cultural spaces occupied by an Aldi Grocery store, a food hall, a performance venue, interactive art exhibitions, community spaces, and Explore! Children’s Museum.

Infinity Prep, a Rocketship Public School, also opened at Art Place last September.