800 WASHINGTON
Multi-Family
Well Building Standard
Slated to be Minneapolis' first multi-family, residential building to achieve the WELL Building Standard™, 800 Washington contributes to the health and wellness of its community.

This 14-story, mixed-used residential, office and retail structure aims to amplify the culture-rich, wellness-oriented attributes of the Mill District within Minneapolis’s Downtown East Neighborhood. Sustainably designed to achieve LEED Gold certification and meet the WELL Building StandardTM, 800 Washington is clad in photocatalytic (pollution-eating) concrete with pocket parks punctuating its façade, a public agricultural garden and private green space on the roof, second-floor offices for The American Academy of Neurology, 12 floors of residential condominiums (including 11 units set aside to provide affordable housing), and ground-level tenant spaces for businesses whose products and services support the residents’ healthy lifestyles.

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A four-story, 30-by-60-foot winter garden accommodates trees and other large plantings.
800 Washington’s bio-concrete façade
destroys air pollution.
The building and its landscaping contribute to the neighborhood’s focus on health and wellbeing.
Interior finishes are durable, beautiful, and sustainable with care given to make sure they are also antimicrobial and don’t contain any harmful chemicals.
Long, narrow living units with floor-to-ceiling glass are flooded with natural light.
This living room in this two-bedroom unit overlooks a pocket garden, providing a visual link to nature that is crucial for cognitive regeneration.
Residents and members of the community can stroll through or linger in lush, green gardens year-round.
Pocket gardens, a green roof, and site plantings provide more open green space than existed on the undeveloped site.
The landscaping for 800 Washington connects the building to boulevard plantings and nearby green spaces, such as Gold Medal Park.
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