Northern Virginia Development News

[shakman]

Originally Posted by NovaWolverine

They need to add a lot of daylighting/illumination to that mall. I like what they're doing by adding a residential building on top of the eastern part of the mall where Bailey's is. I wish they could build over as much of the mall as possible. I don't think Macy's would like having a condo or office building above it, though. Hopefully, this project really guts the interior of the mall and it attracts some interesting tenants.

To my understaning, the plan is not to build on top of this portion of the mall. The plan is to demo the eastern portion, which is occupied by Bailey's and Macy's Home Store, and then build a new mixed used tower in its place.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...7ad_story.html

[NovaWolverine]

Originally Posted by shakman

To my understaning, the plan is not to build on top of this portion of the mall. The plan is to demo the eastern portion, which is occupied by Bailey's and Macy's Home Store, and then build a new mixed used tower in its place.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...7ad_story.html

That's certainly what it looks like from the pictures and what I think would be needed from a structural/construction standpoint. I wish they did this to the western part of the mall as well.

The entire middle part of the mall looks completely different in the pictures, too. That rectangular/cube-like building is there right now, but doesn't look that good in person. Below that, like where Chevy's was and where the entrance to the mall is now, it looks a lot different like there will be more lighting coming through.

[desertpunk]

Scotts Run South Approved

6.6 million sq. ft.Tysons megadevelopment gets yes vote.


http://www.vivatysons.com/feature4.php

Cityline's Scotts Run South crossed a major hurdle this week when the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved its conceptual development plan, making it one of the largest Tysons redevelopment plans to get the green light and the largest rezoning application approved in the county. EVP Donna Shafer tells us the next step for the 6.6M SF mixed-use project is to talk with interested users, then submit a final development plan to the county. The project is next to the future McLean Metro station and will have 17 new buildings, including office, residential, retail, and hotel.

[hpal3]

What is the tallest building in this development? I did not see any reference to any building heights or floors.

[desertpunk]

Originally Posted by hpal3

What is the tallest building in this development? I did not see any reference to any building heights or floors.

Here's the low down:

from: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...45175338,d.aWc

One of the largest Tysons redevelopment plans to date got the green light to move forward from the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors during their April 9 meeting. This is the third major plan the board has signed off on.

Almost two-times the size of its other development in Tysons—Arbor Row—CityLine Partners’ Scotts Run South project will add more than 6.6 million square feet of mixed use development near the future McLean Metro station.

This project will erect 17 new buildings, including office, residential, retail and a hotel. Scotts Run South will replace much of the existing West*Gate office park. The majority of Scotts Run will be within a quarter mile from the McLean station, the easternmost rail stop in Tysons.

The more than 30-acre project is separated by Scotts Run Park. Most of the development sits to the east of the stream valley park on a 23-acre site, along Route 123 near the intersection of Colshire Drive. The plan calls for 13 new buildings—six office, six residential, and one hotel. These account for more than 5.1 million square feet of the total development.

To the west of the park, the development covers two parcels, totaling 6.9 acres, along both sides of Old Meadow Road from Route 123 to Colshire Meadow Road. This portion of Scotts Run includes four buildings—one apartment and three high-rise office buildings up to 350 feet tall.

While most of the development will be built over time as market conditions allow, CityLine submitted two final development plans, which would allow construction to begin quickly. These plans include two residential buildings with up to 440 units located between Chain Bridge Road and Anderson Road. Also included is a 225-foot, 340,000 square foot office building on 2.94 acres associated with the MITRE office park.

The plan incorporates many features that move forward Fairfax County’s goal to turn Tysons into a walkable, environmentally friendly, 24/7 urban center, including:

•Green Buildings: Residential buildings will attain LEED® certification while the non-residential buildings will achieve LEED Silver® standards. CityLine also will install one electric vehicle charging station in each parking garage. Additionally, they will provide the space and infrastructure for additional charging stations in the garages.

•Parks: The plan includes five new urban parks spread across about 3.6 acres, including a playground, two basketball courts, civic space, corner plaza, new naturalized park area. The approximately 12,000 square foot park along Anderson Road includes a playground. A 28,000 square foot civic plaza will offer ornamental landscaping and a water feature or splash pad for kids. Another 1.5 acre naturalized park will connect the development to the existing Scotts Run Park.

•Athletic Field: The developer will provide a turfed, lighted athletic field off-site, co-located with a new fire station that it will build. While not a full-size field, it will be designed so it can be easily expanded to a full field in the future. The field will be available no later than three years after the fire station is built.

•Stream Restoration: CityLine will restore Scotts Run from Route 123 to a point that’s roughly 600 feet south of the Colshire Meadow Drive bridge. As part of the restoration plans, they also will construct a series of paths, bridge, public art, boardwalks, reflection points and stairway or ramp to access the stream valley park.

•Workforce Housing: Following the county’s goal for Tysons, 20 percent of the residential units will be affordable housing.

CityLine also has committed to building a 15,000 square foot, free-standing fire station off-site on Old Meadow Lane. Based on county projections, a new station will be needed in this part of Tysons within seven years, and the developer must provide the new station no later December 31, 2020

Scotts Run South is one of the 18 major redevelopment applications for Tysons. Collectively, these applications propose more than 36 million square feet of new development. If all approved, these projects will generate an estimated 29,000 new residents and 58,000 new employees during the next 20 years or longer.

Under the county’s transformation plan, Tysons Corner will become a green, walkable urban center. By 2050, Tysons will be home to up to 100,000 residents and 200,000 jobs.

Rezoning application map: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/tysons/...z2011pr010.jpg

[desertpunk]

1812 N. Moore St. Rosslyn

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1812 North Moore Street under construction in Rosslyn by BeyondDC, on Flickr

[seldomseen]

Tyson's Corner will be unrecognizable in the next 10-20 years.

[jcastro805]

Originally Posted by seldomseen

Tyson's Corner will be unrecognizable in the next 10-20 years.

With the Metro Silver Line expected to open later this year in Tyson's Corner, it will probably be unrecognizable sooner than that. There seems to permanently be a sea of cranes in the area.

[seldomseen]

This is great news for Tyson's Corner!

[desertpunk]

Washington Post Publisher Looking for “Cheap” New HQ in D.C. or Virginia

Posted by Aaron Wiener on Apr. 30, 2013 at 9:19 am

Speaking at a Bisnow real estate conference this morning, Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth dropped a few hints about what she's looking for in a new headquarters as the Post considers a move from its 63-year-old home at 15th and L streets NW. "Now that the printing presses are not in the building, we don't have any constraints," Weymouth said. "We'd like a building that's a little bit lighter, a little more air."

Weymouth said she's looking "primarily" at D.C. and Virginia—the latter having been home to the paper's digital side during the ill-fated experiment at splitting the paper's operations that ended in 2009. "We’d like it to be cheap, and near the Capitol, near the courthouses," she said.

Post executives haven't ruled out renovating their current building, but Weymouth indicated that she's eager to get out of there, or at least to undergo a substantial renovation. "It's depressing and it's old and it's time," she said. "My grandmother hated it, too." Weymouth's grandmother, Katharine Graham, led the Post in several capacities from 1963 to 1991. Weymouth said her grandmother tried to get the architect I.M. Pei to renovate the building, but ultimately turned Pei down because the renovation would be too expensive.

So how can the District or a Northern Virginia jurisdiction lure the Post? Maybe with cold, hard cash. Asked if the paper would be wooed with economic incentives, Weymouth replied, "We hope so!"

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[desertpunk]

'The Place at Founders Square' Ballston Arlington

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Under Construction: 'The Place at Founders Square' Ballston Arlington (VA) April 2013 by Ron Cogswell, on Flickr

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'Freshbikes' and 'The Place at Founders Square' -- Ballston Arlington (VA) April 2013 by Ron Cogswell, on Flickr

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Along North Quincy Street at Wilson Boulevard Ballston Arlington (VA) April 2013 by Ron Cogswell, on Flickr

[jcastro805]

This is from late December, but is the first I've heard of it:

The major North-South highway that is being planned for Loudoun and Prince William counties got a public rollout of sorts last week. “Open houses” were held at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn and the Four Points Sheraton in Manassas. There were no formal presentations for this new “Northern Virginia North-South Corridor,” just a series of informational boards that showed roughly where the limited-access highway would go and why local and state officials think it’s needed.

This is not just the previously discussed Tri-County Parkway between I-66 and Route 50. This is the whole enchilada: a 45-mile limited-access highway from Route 7 in Ashburn all the way to I-95 in Dumfries. And the discussion is now officially beginning about extending this road across the Potomac River into Maryland, which makes the warnings from environmental and smart-growth groups of an emerging “Outer Beltway” connecting with the Intercounty Connector and then I-95 in Maryland seem more plausible.

[murfneil]

Further evidence that the 'build it and they will come' MO will continue the decades-long 'Dumb-Growth' practices that Virginia has perfected.

Originally Posted by jcastro805

This is from late December, but is the first I've heard of it:

[spencer114]

They should extend it all the way to 64! Lol


It seems like a weird road. It would help with my trips from Richmond to Harrisburg but it doesn't eliminate the hassle of getting to Dumfries.
What is the point of this route? All roads still dump you on 95 and 95 is the problem. Seems like the Fairfax County Parkway can do as good of a job getting people from 95 to Dulles/Leesburg.

[jcastro805]

sorry, I just realized I forgot to post the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...8036_blog.html

Most of this is already built, such as the 234 from Dumfries Road (just north of Quantico) to the I-66, and would involve widening existing roads.

[spencer114]

Duplicate post

[Eerik]

Originally Posted by jcastro805

sorry, I just realized I forgot to post the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...8036_blog.html

Most of this is already built, such as the 234 from Dumfries Road (just north of Quantico) to the I-66, and would involve widening existing roads.

There's definitely a need for a cross road. As the article points out there are hundreds of thousands of new jobs projected for Northern Virginia over the next couple decades and roads need to be built to accommodate all this growth.

Of course one shouldn't neglect the fact most of this is to bolster commerce as it relates to Dulles. It's not a new or improved channel to just move commuters.

[en1044]

I don't really care what or why this is being built, so long as it gives me another way to cross the Potomac.

[shakman]

Originally Posted by en1044

I don't really care what or why this is being built, so long as it gives me another way to cross the Potomac.

Unless Maryland decides to budge relative to this topic, do not expect a new river crossing any time soon.