What to Know
- The old dwellings were torn down in 2019 to make way for this new development.
- Former Barry Farm residents will get priority leasing for 42 of the 90 units in Hillsdale Flats.
- There will be a total of 380 so-called replacement units for former residents across the larger development.
Construction has been ongoing at D.C.’s old Barry Farm community for several years now, and you can see how things are taking shape.
A groundbreaking was held Wednesday morning for the latest phase of redevelopment. District leaders and a few former Barry Farm residents broke ground on Hillsdale Flats, an affordable housing development that will bring a total of 90 townhome-style apartments to the area.
This is the latest project in a much larger redevelopment plan for of the area. The land, off Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Southeast D.C., has a rich history within the African American community.
Formerly enslaved people built the first homes here after the Civil War, and a thriving community emerged. In the 1940s, a public housing development called the Barry Farm Dwellings was built there, and generations of D.C. residents called the neighborhood home…