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Nature is at a premium in Tysons.
The area is surrounded by beautiful natural preserves, for example at Wolf Trap, Raglan Road Park and all along the banks of the Potomac River. Within Tysons itself, though, there is more concrete and asphalt than grass and trees.
Where there is grass, it’s often in the form of a manicured but empty lawn. These lawns represent space that has been ecologically, socially and environmentally wasted, but they could easily be repurposed.
More and more sidewalks are coming to Tysons, but not all of them are created equal.
Sidewalks have been getting a lot of attention lately, They’re credited with the power to revitalize the economy and save lives, but sidewalks, like all infrastructure, need planning, engineering and investment — and some are implemented better than others.
Ballston’s Metro station could soon see a colorful, motion-activated, LED light display as part of a new public art project.
Dubbed “Intersections,” the project is being backed by the Ballston Business Improvement District and is still many months away from completion.
The DC region's ability to absorb the impacts of Amazon's planned 25,000-plus employee campus in National Landing has been a hot topic of conversation, particularly in light of already-high demand for housing and the company's recent decision to abandon plans to construct a campus in Queens, NY.
Last night, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments hosted A Regional Conversation with Amazon, featuring Northern Virginia economic development personnel and representatives from Amazon, JBG Smith and the Stephen Fuller Institute. At the invitation-only event, the panelists caught the public up to speed on Amazon's plans for National Landing and the region's plans to accommodate the new headquarters. Here is what we learned that we can expect on the housing front:
Crystal City’s leading business advocacy group is taking its most concrete steps yet to expand and represent Pentagon City and Arlington’s portion of Potomac Yard as well.
The Crystal City Business Improvement District is hoping to bump out its borders as soon as next year, according to documents submitted to the County Board. The BID plans to spend the next few months working secure the support of businesses in its adjacent neighborhoods, then finalize the change sometime in fiscal year 2020.
Note: Subscriber Only ArticleWoodridge Capital Partners has taken the first step toward redeveloping the historic Key Bridge Marriott property.
The Los Angeles company, which acquired the 583-room hotel at 1401 Lee Highway a little more than a year ago, submitted a major site plan amendment application to Arlington County on Thursday to partially demolish the property, reduce the number of hotel rooms and add hundreds of new residential units to the site.
A hotel might be in the works for Reagan National Airport, according to Jack Potter, CEO of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
Potter slipped in the news while being questioned by D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson during a oversight hearing Monday.
Exactly where on airport property is unclear, but some type of development could meet folks walking from the $36 million pedestrian bridge promised to Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) as part of its incentive deal with Virginia, Potter said.
For the third and, it hopes, final time, Vienna-based Clemente Development Co. has refiled a rezoning application for The View at Tysons, a 3 million-square-foot project featuring what would be Greater Washington’s tallest building.
Clemente, with architects Gensler and Alexandria-based LandDesign and international partner Khaled Juffali, has tweaked its plans for a third time, incorporating input from Fairfax County staff, the Providence District planning commissioner and Providence District Supervisor Lynda Smith. The goal is to have The View entitled no later than October, when the county board will stop hearing land-use cases ahead of the November election.
For the third and, it hopes, final time, Vienna-based Clemente Development Co. has refiled a rezoning application for The View at Tysons, a 3 million-square-foot project featuring what would be Greater Washington’s tallest building.
Clemente, with architects Gensler and Alexandria-based LandDesign and international partner Khaled Juffali, has tweaked its plans for a third time, incorporating input from Fairfax County staff, the Providence District planning commissioner and Providence District Supervisor Lynda Smith. The goal is to have The View entitled no later than October, when the county board will stop hearing land-use cases ahead of the November election.
For years, the shared sidewalk on the south side of Lee Highway has ended abruptly with a ditch.
But a planned bike/pedestrian path on the highway just south of the Vienna Metro station could finally bridge that divide and make the sidewalks more walkable.
Fairfax County is planning to include McLean in a new targeted economic revitalization plan.
The proposed Economic Revitalization and Redevelopment Zones (ERRZs) would allow developers a 5-10 percent fee reduction for site plan reviews and a partial real estate tax abatement for properties consistent with the county’s Comprehensive Plan. A staff report noted that developments approved through the ERRZ pipeline could also see expedited processing.
The Vienna Town Council will review two projects along Maple Avenue in a work session tonight (Monday), after indicating concerns that developers are trying to skirt zoning regulations by pushing their proposed heights a bit higher than current limits might allow.
Comstock Holdings Cos. Inc. has closed a franchise agreement with Marriott International Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) to bring a Renaissance hotel to Reston Station.
The 250-key Renaissance Reston Station will be a part of Reston Station Promenade, an extension of the original Reston Station project that sits atop the Wiehle-Reston East Metro. The hotel building, to be topped by 80 luxury condominium units, is expected to deliver in 2022 on a site bounded by Reston Station Boulevard, Wiehle Avenue and Sunset Hills Road. It is being designed by Nunzio Marc DeSantis Architects.
Longtime plans to build a new regional science center in Loudoun County are gaining steam after the General Assembly allocated $2.3 million for the project in its fiscal 2020 budget.
Developed in partnership with the Fairfax-based Children’s Science Center, the new regional science center in Dulles will be an extension of the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond. It will be located at the Kincora mixed-use development by state Routes 28 and 7 in Dulles.
Arlington County’s effort to improve circulation through central Rosslyn is coming to a head.
The county is scheduled to host a third public meeting Wednesday on its Core of Rosslyn transportation study, during which a concept will be unveiled showing Fort Myer Drive as a two-way street from Lee Highway through Wilson Boulevard to Route 50, with the tunnel that runs beneath Wilson filled in to create an at-grade intersection. The single northbound lane on Fort Myer would largely serve local traffic, while a signalized, mid-block pedestrian crossing would be installed between Wilson and 19th Street.
Ballston Quarter could soon win the county’s approval to install large “media screens” above its public plaza.
The newly renovated Ballston Common mall’s developers, Forest City, have been hoping to construct the new screens ever since the fall. But the company’s lawyers soon realized that the county zoning code wouldn’t allow for the sort of design they envisioned.
The crossing of Chain Bridge Road and Leesburg Pike — where Mr. Tyson’s fruit stand stood eighty years ago — could soon see some major changes.
We told you recently about the latest proposal for Clemente Development Co.'s The View at Tysons, a massive project slated for the 8500 block of Leesburg Pike that would, if approved, feature Greater Washington’s tallest building.
But Clemente doesn’t own this entire block. There’s a new proposal for a 5.24-acre site just down the street, at the corner of Leesburg Pike and Spring Hill Road, that would bring an additional 2 million square feet to the Spring Hill Metro area. And this one features a 2-acre piazza...........
The plan, designed by WDG Architecture and VIKA Virginia LLC, features a 555,000-square-foot residential-over-retail building rising to 330 feet (Building A), a 664,000-square-foot residential and/or hotel building rising up to 390 feet (Building B), and a 727,000-square-foot office-over-retail building rising up to 430 feet. A 20,000-square-foot community library, with programmable rooftop space, would be incorporated into Building A.
The development plan projects up to 775 residential units, or 450 residential units and 350 hotel rooms, plus 91,000 square feet of retail and 2,560 parking below-grade spaces.
Several new streets and major improvements to existing ones are in the works for Tysons.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors made a small adjustment on Tuesday (March 19) to make developers pay a little more of their share, but the report offers a glimpse at what’s ahead for local roadways.
With no discussion, the Board voted unanimously to approve a 1.9 percent increase in the developer contribution rate to the Road Fund and approval of guidelines for those funds’ usage in Centreville and Tysons.
“One of the principles of the Comprehensive Plan for each of the road fund areas is that development above the baseline level established in the plan may be approved, if developer mitigates the impact of such increased density or intensity by contributing to a fund for the provision of off-site road improvements,” staff said in a report. “All aforementioned road funds function in this manner.”
The Jones Branch Connector is coming along, though construction has necessitated a series of weekend closures over the last few weeks.
A video put together by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) laid out the goals of the Jones Branch Connector and a look at what’s ahead for the project.