Cameron Station Homes for Sale

Cameron Station is a master-planned neighborhood in Alexandria's West End — roughly 1,800 to 2,000 townhomes, condominiums and single-family homes laid out across about 101 acres of ground that served as a U.S. Army quartermaster depot from 1942 until 1995. Built in five phases between 1999 and roughly 2007, it pairs a walkable street grid and a private clubhouse with about 70 acres of adjoining City parkland along its eastern and western edges. For buyers who want newer construction, structured amenities and Blue Line access inside Alexandria's city limits, it is a very different proposition from the historic stock closer to the river.

From Army depot to planned community

The land under Cameron Station opened in 1942 as a U.S. Army quartermaster depot, built by the Corps of Engineers in 1941–42 and folded into the Military District of Washington to handle supply, administration and vehicle maintenance for the wartime capital. It later served as a receiving and holding station for war dogs during the Korean War, and in its final decades housed the Defense Logistics Agency, the Defense Contract Audit Agency and the Army Institute of Heraldry, which relocated to Fort Belvoir in April 1994. The 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission selected the post for closure, and its mission ended on September 30, 1995. Sixty-three of the original 164 acres passed to the City of Alexandria as parkland — today about 70 acres of City park adjoin the community — and the remaining 101 acres were sold for redevelopment, reported at $33 million to Greenvest LC at the end of 1996; the street grid still carries the post with it, including Somervelle Street, named for Brig. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, who oversaw the depot's construction.

What the housing stock actually looks like

Homes were delivered in five phases from 1999 to about 2007, and the mix is broad for a single community: elevator condominium buildings, stacked and stair-access condominium flats, condo-townhomes, fee-simple garage townhomes, and a small number of detached single-family houses — the community's floor-plan list shows just two single-family models, Carlyle and Wythe, against more than twenty townhome models. Six condominium sub-associations sit beneath the master association — The Residences at 400 Cameron Station Boulevard, Carlton Place on Donovan Drive, the Condominiums at Cameron Station Boulevard, Main Street Condominiums on Somervelle Street and Brenman Park Drive, Oakland Hall and Woodland Hall — each with its own budget, reserves and documents, which is the first thing to compare when two listings look alike on paper. Builder floor plans still go by model name: Carlyle and Wythe among the single-family houses; Braddock, Randolph, Jones Point, Gatsby and Georgetown among the townhomes; Biltmore, Astoria and Homestead at Carlton Place. Exteriors were drawn with 18th- and 19th-century detailing and what the association calls "purposeful randomness" — brick color, shutter and door tones, and window shapes vary house to house — and any exterior change runs through the Architectural Review Committee under the community's Design and Maintenance Standards.

The association, the Cameron Club and what dues cover

Cameron Station is governed by the Cameron Station Community Association at 200 Cameron Station Boulevard, with the six condominium sub-associations layered beneath it — so most condo owners pay two assessments, and both belong in your underwriting, not just the one quoted in the listing. The master assessment funds landscape maintenance, trash and recycling, snow removal, private road maintenance and the shared amenities. The centerpiece is the Cameron Club: a fitness center, a gymnasium, outdoor pools, and three reservable spaces (the Victoria Herbert Great Room, the Paul Henderson Room and a conference room). The club runs Monday through Friday from 4:45 a.m. to 11 p.m. and weekends from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., extended to 8:30 p.m. during pool season, and every resident — including children — needs a Facilities Pass to use the pool, the fitness center or the shuttle. Ask for the resale package early: parking registration, guest rules and architectural review are all spelled out, and reading them before you are under contract is far easier than after.

Ben Brenman Park and the green edge

The parkland the City took at closure is the reason Cameron Station does not read as an interior subdivision. Ben Brenman Park — about 59 acres at 4800 Brenman Park Drive — wraps the eastern edge with a pond, an amphitheatre, playing fields, volleyball courts, a playground, a fenced dog exercise area, a picnic shelter with grills, restrooms and paved trails, open sunrise to sunset. On the western edge, the roughly 11-acre Armistead Boothe Park at 520 Cameron Station Boulevard adds four pickleball and two tennis courts, a basketball court, playing fields, a running track, a playground and a shelter; the City named it in 2000 for Armistead L. Boothe, a native Alexandrian who served as the city's attorney. Cameron Station Linear Park and the 0.7-mile Backlick Run Trail run between the two parks, and a bridge over Holmes Run on Ben Brenman's east side ties into the Holmes Run Trail, a 3.1-mile City trail running from Cameron Run Regional Park through Dora Kelly Nature Park and Holmes Run Park, which continues on into Fairfax County. From May through mid-November the West End Farmers' Market sets up at Ben Brenman on Sundays, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Metro, buses and the drive

Van Dorn Street station, on Metro's Blue Line at 5690 Eisenhower Avenue, sits roughly a mile to a mile and a half from the community depending on the address, or you can use the association's weekday rush-hour shuttle, which serves marked stops inside Cameron Station and requires a resident Facilities ID to board. The station opened in June 1991, has WMATA parking, and connects to DASH, Fairfax Connector and Metrobus routes. From there the Blue Line runs one stop east to King Street–Old Town and three stops to Reagan National Airport before continuing to the Pentagon and downtown Washington. By car, Duke Street (Route 236) forms the community's northern boundary — running east toward Old Town and U.S. 1, and west to the I-395 interchange at the former Landmark Mall site; South Van Dorn Street runs south to the Capital Beltway (I-495) at Exit 173; and South Pickett Street runs alongside the neighborhood between Duke Street and Edsall Road. The community association puts Old Town about four miles away and Washington, DC about ten to eleven.

The West End around it

Cameron Station sits in ZIP 22304 and lies entirely inside the independent City of Alexandria — not Fairfax County, despite how many nearby addresses that read "Alexandria, VA" (ZIPs like 22310 and 22315) are actually Fairfax. The Charles E. Beatley, Jr. Central Library is directly across Duke Street and a U.S. post office is within walking distance. The wider West End has several large public and private projects underway: the former Landmark Mall site is becoming WestEnd Alexandria, a mixed-use district with a new street grid, housing, retail, a fire station and parks, anchored by the West Alexandria Transit Center that opened on Duke Street in October 2025, and Inova's new Alexandria hospital campus there — an inpatient hospital, a cancer center and a specialty care building — is under construction and targeted to open in 2028. Two transit projects bracket the neighborhood: the West End Transitway, a bus rapid transit line on the Van Dorn/Beauregard corridor connecting Van Dorn Metro, Landmark, Shirlington and the Pentagon, with Phase I service anticipated in summer 2027 and the dedicated-lane phase not yet funded; and Duke Street In Motion, a 4.5-mile transitway between the future Landmark Transit Center and the King Street Metro station, now in design, with permits expected by mid-2027 and construction to begin after that. Those are the City's published schedules as of 2026; the City's project pages are the place to confirm current timing before you rely on any of it.

Schools serving Cameron Station

Cameron Station is served by Alexandria City Public Schools. The attendance-zone elementary school is Samuel W. Tucker Elementary at 435 Ferdinand Day Drive, which borders the community; the school notes that students living inside Cameron Station may walk using sidewalks and crosswalks or bike in along the Backlick Run path, while students outside the community are assigned bus service by address. Middle and high school assignments changed under the boundaries ACPS adopted for the 2026-27 school year, which took effect July 1, 2026. ACPS operates two middle schools — Francis C. Hammond and George Washington — and a single comprehensive high school, Alexandria City High School. Attendance boundaries and program assignments are set by the division and are revised from time to time, so look up the current assignment for a specific address in the ACPS Attendance Zone Locator before you write an offer.