When W.B. Hopke looks back at it’s top performers, there are numerous employees that come to mind and one such employee is Tommy Kennedy. We would like to dedicate this article to Tommy, thank him for his years of service and present Tommy’s insights as to what it takes to have a successful career at Hopke.
W.B. Hopke Co. was founded in 1956 and through the years has successfully delivered thousands of wet utility projects to clients throughout the Washington Metropolitan area. Frank Hopke takes us back to one of the more memorable projects, the I-495 HOT Lanes Construction Project that began in 2009.
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In 2010, W.B. Hopke worked on a very interesting project for the US Coast Guard Headquarters in Southeast DC in the historic neighborhood of Anacostia. Hopke worked with Clark Construction, the general contractor for this project. The size of this project site was very large and complicated. The work had to be completed quickly, so Hopke had a very aggressive schedule. There was also some historic preservation of the old St. Elizabeths Psychiatric Hospital included with this work.
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Central United Methodist Church (CUMC) has served the area with worship and community services for a century. Unity Homes at Ballston includes CUMC’s brand-new sanctuary space, an early childhood education for approximately 90 children, with a commercial grade community kitchen on the first two floors of the new building, as well as beautiful community amenities.
What began as a concept and catalyst project in Bailey’s Crossroad is becoming a reality. The ATLA Crossroads project, a new five-story apartment building located at 5851 Columbia Pike in Falls Church, VA, will include 361 apartments and three townhomes. The Wood Partners project which began in March of 2023 and is scheduled for completion in 2025, will include twelve percent of the building for affordable dwelling units (ADU’s). The project includes an activated streetscape, public park spaces and housing.
Renovations of Joseph Hensley Park, located at 4200 Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, VA, began in 2018 by Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities (RPCA) and the City of Alexandria. The initial recommendations proposed in 2014 were amended in 2021 for the implementation for improvements to be scheduled in two phases.
Construction at the 55,667 SF redevelopment project site located at 1031 N. Vermont Street Arlington, VA 22201, between 11th Street and Vermont in the Ballston area, was the original location of a two-story church and an adjacent parking lot. The site is now being transformed into a beautiful mixed-use residential community of townhomes and multi-family units in the heart of Ballston.
The Crystal House project is largely financed by Amazon who contributed $381.9 million to the Washington Housing Conservancy, a DC area non-profit and financing partner for the purchase of the 16-acre site in 2020. The effort will help stabilize rising rents at the luxury apartment building, a move that will create and preserve 1,300 affordable housing units at Crystal House.
Inova Health System’s Springfield and Alexandria Hospital plans to be under construction by third quarter of 2024. The one billion-dollar Alexandria facility will be on the site of the former Landmark Mall.
W.B. Hopke would like to recognize foreman Willie Hernandez for his 21 years of service to our company. As such, we are dedicating this article to Willie, outlining his efforts, insights, character and loyalty to W.B. Hopke. It is well deserved.