Washington, D.C. developer Ditto Residential is teaming up with Maryland custom home designer OPaL LLC on a townhome project that is poised to transform the primarily industrial Watkins Alley section of Hill East (the lesser known neighbor of Capitol Hill) to a residential neighborhood.

The Watkins Alley development will include 44 units (29 townhouse condos and 15 flats) and will be built in a vintage, industrial style with brick instead of the glassy, modern condo look du jour. Construction is slated to begin in 2018.

A rendering of the condo project planned for Watkins Alley (Ditto Residential)

More residential projects are on the way to the area. Elsewhere in the neighborhood, a luxury apartment development anchored by a Safeway store is in the works from Foulger-Pratt. OPaL also is working on redeveloping an 1890s warehouse into lofts and is converting a 1906 car barn into three condos—all in neighboring Capitol Hill.

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Ditto Residential joins Maryland's OPaL for Hill East townhome project [Biz Journals]