Kalorama Park. Photo by Jim Malone
After telling a group of Milwaukee locals in March that he’ll stay in D.C. after his term, President Barack Obama has also settled on a neighborhood, according to the National Journal. The first family is relocating to Kalorama in Northwest, the publication reported.
In January, Paul Brandus, a member of the White House press corps, said that the First Family was deciding between Kalorama and Embassy Row. While an exact house in unknown, NJ points out the one-time home of a Syrian ambassador and another gated property are on the market.
Here’s the Obamas’ new neighborhood https://t.co/I3csJPaUot pic.twitter.com/oNgWar5e5a
— Ben Pershing (@benpershing) May 24, 2016
Last October, Jim Bell of Beasley Real Estate told the Washington Business Journal that the Obamas could spend approximately $5 million to $7 million to accommodate all of their housing requirements.
The Obamas are staying in the District so that the family’s youngest daughter, Sasha, can finish school at Sidwell Friends. “Transferring someone in the middle of high school — tough,” the president told the group in Milwaukee.
Obama would be the first president to stay in D.C. since Woodrow Wilson left office in 1921, though it doesn’t sound like he wants to stay long after Sasha’s graduation. The Barack Obama Foundation announced in May 2015 that his presidential library will be located in Chicago.