GW purchases The Avenue, Whole Foods building in $140 million deal

GW purchases The Avenue, Whole Foods building in $140 million deal

Officials will buy the Residences on The Avenue — an apartment building also home to Whole Foods, Sweetgreen and other retailers — after selling a lease to the land about 15 years ago. University spokesperson Julia Metjian said Wednesday that GW will close a $140 million deal purchasing the Residences on The Avenue, a 335-unit apartment building on I Street between 21st and 22nd streets, as well as its ground-floor retail partners in mid-January…