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Want to live where you work? Alexandria’s e-lofts can be used as homes or offices — or both DEVELOPMENTS With his latest venture, D.C. developer Conrad Cafritz is simply offering units for rent. He doesn’t care what you do in them. Looking for an apartment? Great, turn the large open area into your living and dining space and the smaller room into your bedroom. Need a small office but want to rent just for a year at a time? Configure the larger area into open-office seating and the smaller room into a private office. “This building is your home, whether you live or work here,” Cafritz says of his $50 million prototype building in Alexandria. Born into one of Washington’s elite real estate families, Cafritz, 77, thought he had seen just about everything the industry had to offer. But then teleworking and startup entrepreneurship — both empowered by smartphones — began to melt away distinctions between homes and offices.
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As these renderings show, any unit in Alexandria’s e-lofts can be configured as a home, top, or an office, bottom. Rent is the same either way.
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