Ninety-six homes — 26 elevator townhomes and 70 condominiums — completed in 2020 on 3.22 acres between Duke, Union and Wolfe streets, with a public promenade and pier.
Robinson Landing is the newest large piece of the Old Town Alexandria waterfront: 3.22 acres delivered in 2020 by EYA with JBG Smith and Mitsui, on the block bounded by Duke, Union and Wolfe streets. Ninety-six homes came out of it — 26 elevator townhomes and 70 condominiums — along with a public promenade, a pier, and the warehouse building at 2 Duke Street, which was retained rather than cleared. Two things separate it from everything else on this stretch of river: you are choosing between two entirely different forms of ownership on one block, and the archaeology recovered here before the foundations went in is among the more significant in the city's record.
The townhomes and the condominiums here are not variations on a theme. They carry different documents, different monthly carrying costs and different diligence. A condominium purchase turns on the resale certificate, the operating budget, the minutes and above all the reserve study — an elevator building on the Potomac has envelope, garage and mechanical obligations that a reserve study either funds or does not. The 26 townhomes are a separate product under a separate association structure. Comparing the two on price per square foot alone will mislead you; compare what each association is responsible for and what it charges to do it.
Before construction, archaeologists working this site recovered three 18th-century ship hulls, the remains of a 1783 warehouse associated with the Hooe family, and the 1854 Pioneer Mills site. Ships buried in landfill along Alexandria's shoreline are not a curiosity — sunken hulls were part of how this ground was made. Alexandria's Archaeological Protection Code, adopted by Council in November 1989 and incorporated into the zoning ordinance in 1992, is what puts city archaeologists in the permit path for ground disturbance, and it applies to what owners do now as much as it applied to the developer then.
The promenade and the pier at Robinson Landing are public, and that is worth stating plainly because it runs both ways. You get continuous river access and a walkable connection north toward the foot of King Street; you also get the foot traffic, events and evening activity that come with a public waterfront edge. Walk the block on a weekday morning and again on a Saturday evening before you decide which side of that trade you are on. The retained warehouse at 2 Duke Street anchors the south end and keeps something of the working-waterfront scale the block used to have.
The city's waterfront flood-mitigation program passes directly by here. After the National Park Service denied the proposed pump station at Waterfront Park in February 2026, Council voted on June 13, 2026 to advance an enhanced gravity storm sewer alternative — upsized storm sewers, backflow-prevention gates and valves, bulkhead and shoreline raised to elevation 6, and pedestrian improvements on lower King. Utility test pits were dug July 13-24, 2026 along Union Street between King and Prince, Prince Street, and inside Waterfront Park and Point Lumley Park. The project stood at 30 percent design when Council acted, with 70 percent targeted for fall 2026 and construction starting summer or fall 2027; as of August 2026 nothing was under construction. Ask where a specific unit sits relative to the construction limits, and get the elevation certificate — Alexandria's current FEMA maps took effect January 11, 2024.
Being new construction did not exempt this block from the Old and Historic Alexandria District. Exterior changes visible from a public right of way still require a Certificate of Appropriateness, and in a condominium that is ordinarily the association's errand rather than an owner's — one more reason to read the governing documents closely. Schools for 2026-27 are Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy for elementary, George Washington Middle School, and Alexandria City High School across its King Street and Minnie Howard campuses. The School Board's June 12, 2025 boundary decision took effect with that school year, so verify the address in the ACPS Attendance Zone Locator.
Robinson Landing sits within Old Town Alexandria — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area.
Artur can confirm what applies to a specific address here — lot, zoning, association documents and school assignment — before you write an offer.
