Debilitated Former Sanford Capital Property Sells At Auction As Tenants Protest Conditions
A group of Southeast D.C. tenants traveled to the far corner of Northwest Washington on a rainy Wednesday morning to protest the foreclosure auction where their community was to be sold. But by the time they arrived, the property had already found a new owner. Bisnow/Jon Banister Members of the Oak Hill Tenants Association and organizers waiting in the lobby of the 4910 Massachusetts Ave. NW office building after their apartment community sold at auction.
The property being sold at the auction, held outside the office of Alex Cooper Auctioneers at 4910 Massachusetts Ave. NW, was the Oak Hill Apartments, a nine-building community sitting 12 miles and a river away on Wheeler Street SE in Congress Heights.