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A First Look At 166 Home Development At DC's Boys Town Campus

  • August 4th 2025

by UrbanTurf Staff

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The plan to redevelop the former campus of an at-risk youth organization off South Dakota Avenue is coming into focus. 

Urban Atlantic has filed a large tract review with DC to redevelop the former Boys Town campus at 4801 Sargent Road NE (map) into 166 single-family semi-detached homes. As part of the site work for the development, Urban Atlantic will raze many of the existing structures on the 12-acre plot, but plans to adaptively reuse the school building in the middle of the campus, and create a large open space with the new development. 

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All of the new residential units will be for-sale, with 10% set aside as affordable under the city's inclusionary zoning requirements. Boys Town, which was founded in Nebraska over a century ago, ceased operations at the DC campus last year. 

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The Office of Planning will likely review the large tract review in the coming months. If the development timeline holds, the project could deliver in 2028. 

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This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/a_first_look_at_166_home_development_at_dcs_boys_town_campus/23752.

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