5 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · May 4
He died Monday at a Bethesda hospital after being hospitalized on Friday with an illness, his family said in a statement shared by friend Julie Chase.
Donatelli was a politically connected developer whose residential projects helped reshape several Washington neighbourhoods in the early 2000s.
Additional details about the illness were not immediately available, but his death marks the loss of a prominent figure in the capital's real estate scene.
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