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Eight modern row houses will be built in Richmond at the corner of North Thompson Street and Cutshaw Avenue, between the Museum District and Scott’s Addition.

An office building will be demolished next week to make way for the connected single-family houses.

“It was a decent office building, but it’s not historic and it’s not the most attractive 1970s-era building,” Carter Snipes, the developer, said Monday in a statement.

Each house will be about 1,800 square feet and feature rooftop decks, open floor plans and off-street parking. Three units will include two parking spaces, while five will have one space each. All will have three bedrooms and 2½ baths.

The three units with two parking spaces will have full-size backyards similar to those in Richmond’s Fan District, while five will have courtyards, Snipes said.

The homes in Meridian, as the development will be called, will be offered for sale from $450,000 to $499,000.

The first homes are expected to ready by year’s end. “We will begin sales immediately and we will stagger construction based on how fast sales occur,” Snipes said.

Meridian will be located between Monument Avenue and West Broad Street.