Eight row houses also are under construction at North Thompson Street and Cutshaw Avenue, between the Museum District and Scott’s Addition, also on the site of a former office building.

“All of this is part of the maturation process and the desirability of places people want to live,” said Olinger, adding that the best and highest use for these properties has changed.

Much of the activity has not happened along Monument Avenue in recent years, he said.

In 2003, however, two large houses were built on corner lots: one at the northeast corner of Monument and Boulevard and the other at the southeast corner of Monument and Roseneath Road.

Three town homes

Developer Jeremy Connell wants to take the 0.09-acre lot at the southwest corner of Monument and North Colonial avenues and turn it into three single-family homes.

“I had wanted to do an infill project in the Fan or Museum districts for some time,” said Connell, who owns Pareto LLC, a development firm in Richmond that has developed various projects including the 7west luxury riverfront town-house development that is now under construction west of Legend Brewing Co. in the Manchester District.