Georgia Avenue–Petworth station

Georgia Avenue–Petworth
Georgia Avenue–Petworth
	Station platform in May 2004
General information
Location	3700 Georgia Avenue NW; Washington, D.C.
Coordinates	38°56′10″N 77°01′28″W / 38.936112°N 77.024395°W
Owned by	WMATA
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Metrobus: 60, 62, 63, 64, 70, 79, H8
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Bicycle facilities	Capital Bikeshare, 12 lockers
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	E05
History
Opened	September 18, 1999; 25 years ago
Passengers
2023	2,855 daily
Rank	35 out of 98
Services
Former services
Route map
Route map
Location
Location

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

It opened on September 18, 1999, part of an extension of the Green Line that connected U Street and Fort Totten, allowing trains to travel between Anacostia and Greenbelt.

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.^[2]

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 50-foot (15 m) height limit to infill residential or four- to six-story mixed-use development.^[3]^{: 34–35, 43}
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.^[3]^{: 36–37, 44}
Petworth-Metro. To the north, this is the largest neighborhood by sites available and height, with a restriction of 65 ft (20 m). 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 17,000 sq ft (1,579 m²) of street-level retail space.^[3]^{: 32–33, 41–42}
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.^[3]^{: 30–31, 40}

On May 7, 2023, the northeastern terminus of the Yellow Line was truncated from Greenbelt to Mount Vernon Square, following its reopening after a nearly eight-month-long major rehabilitation project on its bridge over the Potomac River and its tunnel leading into L'Enfant Plaza. Thus, it no longer services this station.^[4] Half of Yellow Line service is expected to be re-extended to Greenbelt in December 2025.^[5]