Berman Enterprises won another key entitlement toward a big mixed-use development in Walker Mill, a project that planners hope will spur additional growth along a Metro corridor that Prince George’s County has long considered an economic development lynchpin.
The project, dubbed Glenwood Hills, envisions residential, retail and industrial components spread over 133 presently-wooded acres immediately south of Central Avenue, about two-thirds of a mile east of the Blue Line’s Addison Road Metro Station. The site sits about midway between the Capital Beltway and D.C., and about a mile-and-a-half southwest of FedEx Field, where Prince George’s and Maryland are vying to keep the Washington Commanders.
Berman Enterprises won detailed site plan approval Jan. 4 from the county’s Planning Board for the first big installment of new development — 524 multifamily units and 49,000 square feet of retail, spread over two buildings fronting Central Avenue, plus another 126 townhomes and site infrastructure.
A future phase would include 775,000 square feet of industrial uses, spread across several buildings south of the now-approved residential buildings and west of Shady Glen Drive. Site drawings label the industrial buildings as “warehouse/distribution.” Though the county’s economic development agency also identifies Glenwood Hills as a potential site for data centers, a lucrative industry the county has been hungry to attract.
