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EYA is building 60 condominium homes at the Oronoco in Alexandria. The homes have approximately 1,549 to 3,511 finished square feet, with base prices from $945,000 to $3,995,000.

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Each custom-designed town home at Wormley Row on Prospect Street Northwest has four levels with 4,900 to 5,600 finished square feet. The homes are base-priced from $3,445,000 to $4,995,000.

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"He's seen as anti-coal. Some people feel as if the mines aren't operating as fully as they could be." - Charlene Marshall, the former mayor of Morgantown, W.Va., and now a state legislator and delegate at the convention. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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This photo posted to an Instagram account belonging to a person identified as Jose Pablo Pineda, an eyewitness at the scene, shows damage at an office building in San Jose, Costa Rica, after a magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Jose Pablo Pineda via Instagram)

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Fireworks lie in the foreground and policemen arrive at the scene after a massive blaze swept through the Om Siva Shakti fireworks factory in Sivakasi, about 650 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Chennai, India, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. Dozens of workers were killed and dozens were injured in the fire, the cause of which was not immediately known. (AP Photo)

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Pierre Garcon, with the Indianapolis Colts in February 2010, wore a Haitian flag and used Super Bowl Media Day as an opportunity to raise awareness of the plight of the earthquake victims. (Associated Press)

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Pierre Garcon took swift action in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake that rocked Haiti. He created a charity as a means of channeling resources directly to the people and remains active in helping the island nation rebuild. (Associated Press)

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Thai police officers inspect a motorcycle and a Ferrari involved in a hit-and-run accident during an investigation at Thong Lor police station in Bangkok on Monday. A grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink has been arrested for driving the Ferrari that struck a police officer and dragged his dead body down a Bangkok street in a hit-and-run. (Associated Press)

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Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) meets with Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Mr. Assad told Mr. Maurer that the Red Cross is welcome to operate on the ground in the country as long as it remains "neutral and independent," the SANA state news agency reported. (AP Photo/SANA)

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President Obama walks past debris on the sidewalks as he tours the Bridgewood neighborhood in LaPlace, La., in the Saint John the Baptist Parish, with local officials to survey the ongoing response and recovery efforts to Hurricane Isaac, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)