The Stacks

Washington, DC Residential, retail, office, hotel, pedestrian street, marina 7-acre Buzzard Point neighborhood

The Idea

A 7-acre neighborhood with a name that promises it won’t blend in.

On Buzzard Point, where the Anacostia bends past Audi Field, a 7-acre, 2M SF district arrived as Altogether Different, with a teal-and-yellow window-grid identity built to stand apart from the glass towers filling in around it.

Location

Washington, DC

Size

7 ac · 2M SF

Developer

Akridge + National Development

Architect

Gensler + Handel

Broke ground

2022

Phase I

2025

What we did

Named and positioned a new Buzzard Point neighborhood and built its identity. Altogether Different, expressed through a teal-and-yellow window-grid mark, with the messaging and launch to introduce it to a fast-changing stretch of the DC waterfront.

StrategyNamingBrand identityMessaging toolkitLaunchLeasing tools

Success

An identity built to stand apart on a fast-changing stretch of the Anacostia waterfront.

A 7-acre, 2M SF Buzzard Point district branded Altogether Different, with a teal-and-yellow window-grid identity.
Phase I delivered in 2025.
Named 2026 CoStar Multifamily Development of the Year.
A residential-led mixed-use neighborhood positioned to anchor Buzzard Point near Audi Field.

The place

Photograph of The Stacks at dusk: glass towers over brick-warehouse bases, lit from the street — Built. The glass towers over brick bases, photographed at dusk.

Photograph of the pedestrian street between the brick buildings in autumn, with string lights overhead — The pedestrian street in autumn. Rambla and the first retail open.

Photograph from the rooftop at sunset: a pergola and lounge seating above the marina, with the Anacostia and Fort McNair beyond — The roof at sunset. The marina and Fort McNair below, the Anacostia beyond.

Photograph of the plaza at Everly at The Stacks at dusk: yellow benches and young trees between a brick building and a glass tower, storefronts not yet open — Everly at The Stacks. The plaza at dusk, before the storefronts opened.

Rendering of the green between the buildings, with Ale House Kitchen and outdoor tables — The green, as rendered before construction. Ale House Kitchen on the ground floor.

Aerial rendering of Buzzard Point at dusk with The Stacks, Nationals Park and the monuments beyond — Buzzard Point from above, as planned. Nationals Park and the monuments beyond.

Brand Imagery

The identity.

The Stacks mark and wordmark · Altogether Different.

Three Stacks posters on a brick wall: a leafy facade, a yellow illustration of a reader beside a tree, and a laughing woman

Street posters · Altogether Different.

Collateral

Three phone screens: Altogether Something Else, Core Yoga, and a Jeff Koons plaza art installation — Mobile · the neighborhood’s programming, from yoga to a Koons on the plaza.

Illustration

A neighborhood drawn in one line.

A commissioned set of line drawings carries the brand where photography can’t: before the buildings exist. Each one shows a small moment of life at Buzzard Point, with the Capitol, the Monument or the river in the background to place it. They run across the website, signage, stationery and the leasing gallery.