Commercial Kitchen in Eckington, DC
Last updated: September 2, 2026.
About: Union Kitchen is Washington, DC’s certified shared commercial kitchen where food businesses produce from first batch to full scale — packaged brands, meal delivery, and everything in between.
The commercial kitchen in Eckington is Union Kitchen at 1625 Eckington Place NE, Washington, DC 20002, next to NoMa. It is the purpose-built shared facility for CPG brands and other food businesses that need pallet-level production in Washington, DC. Members license space. Membership starts at $899 a month.
Book a 45-minute tour . Bring batch size and the equipment you think you need. Call 301-818-1701 if you want that walk-through on the calendar today.
What is in the Eckington building
This floor was built for manufacturing, not for a line of caterers sharing one giant hotline.
Union Kitchen is 30,000 square feet of certified shared commercial kitchen space located at 1625 Eckington Place NE. Packaged food brands, CPG companies, and meal delivery teams run first cases and pallet orders in the same building. You are not borrowing a restaurant kitchen after close. You are on a production floor with docks, freight elevators, and walk-in coolers and freezers that take pallets.
The equipment matches that job. Blast chillers. Extruders. Steam kettles and tilt skillets. Rolling rack ovens and proofers. A flow wrapper. 20-quart and 60-quart mixers. The building has upgraded electrical capacity built for manufacturing equipment, not restricted to the tabletop units that live in a home kitchen. That is the difference between testing a recipe and repeating a batch a buyer will reorder.
Cold storage and blast chillers keep the cold chain on site. The freezers are designed for frozen food production and hold at sub-0 temperatures. The dock and freight elevators are how a wholesale order leaves. Co-working office, high-speed internet, gas, water, electricity, and building management come with membership.
The building is USDA-meat inspected and certified, FDA-certified, gluten-free-certified, and Whole Foods–approved. Staff work to GMP and HACCP standards and hold those certifications. DC Health inspects members here. Those credentials live on the facility. They are not automatic claims on your label. You file your own DC Health path against this address. You cannot produce under Union Kitchen’s license.
Licensing a food business in Washington, DC and Food manufacturer license in a shared kitchen .
The address, and what sits on this block
1625 Eckington Place NE, Washington, DC 20002. Eckington, next to NoMa. 301-818-1701. support@unionkitchen.com.
Two different businesses share the campus. Union Kitchen the kitchen is the licensed production floor, open 24/7, 365 days a year. Union Kitchen Grocery is a separate retail store. Grocery hours, sandwiches, and delivery apps are not the kitchen. If you need a manufacturer license attached to this address, you want the production facility.
Union Kitchen is not Union Market, the food hall in a different part of Northeast. It is also not the out-of-town restaurants that use the Union Kitchen name.
How you license space here
This is not an hourly clock as the main model. You license a monthly membership or a drop-in day pass. A day pass covers a one-off production run. Momthly membership commitments run 3, 6, or 12 months and longer.
Shared membership includes production space, co-working office, gas, water, electricity, high-speed internet, and access to equipment. Tiers are sized by equipment days. Current numbers stay on the homepage. If you're comparing different pricing models, read more on Commercial kitchen cost in DC.
Dedicated space is a modular private area in the same Eckington facility. It is not a room you outgrow and then leave. You bring equipment. You add area as volume grows. Facility management stays with Union Kitchen so you can focus your energy on production.
That is first batch to full scale in one Eckington building. When a continuous line and plant overhead beat licensing space here, you leave. Until then, stay where docks, pallet storage, electrical capacity, and DC Health already exist. How to scale from a home kitchen.
Getting here, docks, and food trucks
The site is built for cases and pallets through the dock. Meal delivery routes and wholesale pickups use that dock. Members can enter any hour.
Eckington does not have overnight food-truck parking. Storage and dock time can still be useful. If overnight or all-day truck parking is the main need, a depot commissary is the better building.
Who this location is for
This Eckington kitchen is for packaged brands and CPG, meal delivery and meal prep, bakers, and commissary teams that need licensed production in Washington, DC. It is the wrong building if you only need a ghost-kitchen ticket line or a place to park a truck.
If you are still matching facility type to the business, use What is a shared kitchen and Choosing a shared kitchen in DC.
Cottage food stays in the registered home kitchen. You cannot produce cottage food in this shared kitchen. Confirm current rules on DC Health’s cottage food page.
First Run is the shelf path, not the building
Union Kitchen is the licensed facility where you produce. First Run is the playbook that runs with it. First Run is a food and beverage Accelerator in Washington, DC that meets you at the idea stage and builds the brand with you. 90 days to shelf. 90 days to prove it's ready to scale.
Kitchen membership does not require First Run. And vice versa.
Walk the floor
A tour is 45 minutes, weekdays and weekends, by appointment. You walk the production floor, storage, and dock. You leave with a tier that matches the equipment days you will actually use.
support@unionkitchen.com · 301-818-1701
FAQ
Is there a commercial kitchen in Eckington, DC? Yes. Union Kitchen is the purpose-built certified shared commercial kitchen at 1625 Eckington Place NE. Members license production space. Book a tour.
What makes the Eckington kitchen different from other shared kitchens? It is built for CPG and pallet-level production. Specialized equipment, docks, pallet walk-ins, and manufacturing electrical capacity sit in one facility. It is not one shared hotline for caterers.
What is the address of Union Kitchen? 1625 Eckington Place NE, Washington, DC 20002, in Eckington near NoMa.
Is Union Kitchen the same as Union Kitchen Grocery? They share a campus. The kitchen is licensed production, open 24/7. The grocery is a separate retail store. Manufacturers tour the kitchen.
Is Union Kitchen part of Union Market? No. Union Market is a food hall in a different part of Northeast DC.
Can I park a food truck at the Eckington kitchen? Eckington does not have food-truck parking. If parking is the product you need, look at a depot commissary.
Is the kitchen open overnight? Yes. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
How do I get space at the Eckington kitchen? You license monthly membership or a drop-in day pass. Dedicated space is a modular private area in the same facility. Membership starts at $899 a month. What membership includes.
Do I have to join First Run to produce here? Kitchen membership is production space on its own. First Run is optional if you also want help getting that product onto retail shelves.