Georgia Avenue–Petworth station

Georgia Avenue–Petworth station is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Green Line. It is located at the border of the neighborhoods of Petworth, Sixteenth Street Heights, and Park View in Northwest.

Station layout

The station has an island platform located below New Hampshire Avenue, with street-level access from the intersection with Georgia Avenue. It also features the "Arch II" design found at Columbia Heights, Congress Heights, Glenmont, and Mount Vernon Square.

History

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A Huntington-bound Yellow Line train at the station in September 2022

It opened on September 18, 1999, part of an extension of the Green Line that connected Template:Wmata and Template:Wmata, allowing trains to travel between Template:Wmata and Template:Wmata.

The station's west entrance closed on December 11, 2006, to accommodate construction of a mixed-use development. Bus stops, bike racks, and lockers were moved, and the entrance remained closed until 2009, a year later than planned.<ref name="Closure">Template:Cite press release</ref>

Like many other Metro stations, Georgia Avenue–Petworth has catalyzed nearby development. The District of Columbia Office of Planning has divided development proposals near the station into four localities:

• Park View. Composed of three blocks along Georgia Avenue south of the station—3200 West, 3400 East, and 3500 East—Park View development is mainly limited by a Template:Convert height limit to infill residential or four- to six-story mixed-use development.<ref name="planning">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Pleasant Plains. Further south, sites at 2700 West and 2900 West on Georgia Avenue are also subject to the low height restriction but with more emphasis on apartments and row houses.<ref name="planning" />Template:Rp
• Petworth-Metro. To the north, this is the largest neighborhood by sites available and height, with a restriction of Template:Convert. It contains a series of blocks on Georgia Avenue from Princeton Place to Shepherd Street, with the 3700 West block already developed as Park Place, containing 148 condos and Template:Convert of street-level retail space.<ref name="planning" />Template:Rp
• Upshur. The northernmost of the four regions, it is centered on Upshur Street near Kansas Avenue. As with Pleasant Plains, the Planning Office has focused on residential development for Upshur.<ref name="planning" />Template:Rp

On May 7, 2023, the northeastern terminus of the Yellow Line was truncated from Template:Wmata to Template:Wmata, following its reopening after a nearly eight-month-long major rehabilitation project on its bridge over the Potomac River and its tunnel leading into Template:Wmata. Thus, it no longer services this station.<ref name="yellowreopen">Template:Cite news</ref> Half of Yellow Line service is expected to be re-extended to Greenbelt in December 2025.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>

External links

• Georgia Avenue and New Hampshire Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• West side of Georgia Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View