2461
Eisenhower Avenue

Hoffman Building 1 is the first major structure on the Eisenhower Valley parcel that Hubert N. "Dutch" Hoffman Jr. Person Hubert N. "Dutch" Hoffman Jr. b. 1920 · d. 2002 Alexandria real-estate developer who in 1958 bought seventy acres of Eisenhower Valley swamp and trailer-park landfill for two hundred thousand dollars and over the next … acquired in 1958 — seventy acres of swamp, scrub, and trailer-park landfill along Cameron Run, bought for approximately two hundred thousand dollars in anticipation of the Capital Beltway’s completion. Construction on Building 1 ran through the late 1960s and the structure opened in 1968 with the U.S. Department of Defense as its anchor tenant — a federal commitment that established the corridor’s identity as an office-park extension of the Pentagon-and-Mark-Center cluster a few miles south. ^[1] Source 1 ALXnow — Hoffman Company / Swamp Fox (2020) Website

Hoffman Building 2 followed in 1971 immediately adjacent, and the Eisenhower Avenue Holiday Inn rounded out the first development phase shortly afterward; by 1972 the combined Hoffman Center totaled approximately one million square feet of office space, and the parcel had become the dominant federal-office cluster along this stretch of Eisenhower Avenue. ^[2] Source 2 Washington Post — Hubert Hoffman obit (2002) Newspaper

The address 2461 Eisenhower Avenue is today the registered headquarters address of the Hoffman Family Limited Partnership, the contemporary corporate vehicle of the The Hoffman family Family The Hoffman family Three-generation Alexandria real-estate developer family. Patriarch (1920–2002) bought 70 acres of Eisenhower Valley swampland for $200,000 in 1958 and over the next decades built … , which still owns and operates the building and the broader Hoffman Town Center parcel surrounding it. The Town Center has expanded well beyond the original 1968–1972 buildout: the U.S. National Science Foundation moved its headquarters to the parcel in 2017, and the AMC Hoffman Town Center cinema multiplex operates there as well. Specific architectural-record details (architect of record, total rentable square footage, original construction cost) and primary occupancy chains across the building’s six-decade tenant history are research targets for a future deepening — to be confirmed against Alexandria building-permit records, federal-government- services-administration leasing files, and the Hoffman Family Limited Partnership’s own archive. ^[3] Source 3 Alexandria Library Special Collections Manuscript