One of the epicenters of the Richmond region’s craft brewing renaissance is starting to undergo a transformation.

Over roughly the next year or so, new apartments and condos will rise in the blocks surrounding Hardywood Park Craft Brewery’s location on Ownby Lane in Richmond, bringing more than 250 residential units to what is now mainly an industrial and office area.

“We are trying to create a community there with Hardywood in the middle,” said Andrew Basham, a principal with Spy Rock Real Estate Group, the Richmond-based company that is developing the project.

With Hardywood at the center and two other breweries — Castleburg Brewery and Main Line Brewery — within walking distance, Spy Rock is calling the development Brewer’s Row.

The new residential development comes as Hardywood itself has undergone a transformation at its Ownby Lane brewery and taproom.

Gone is the original Hardywood building at 2408 Ownby Lane, a former warehouse where brewery founders Eric McKay and Patrick Murtaugh brewed their first small batches of beer in 2011. That building has been torn down and the bare lot is now surrounded by fencing as construction is set to start on one piece of the Spy Rock development, a unit of 36 rental condos.

Immediately adjacent to that lot is a building at 2410 Ownby Lane that Hardywood acquired in 2012.