Construction is moving along smoothly at Stonebridge Development’s Carlyle Crossing, an upcoming mixed use center in Alexandria’s Eisenhower neighborhood. The property, which will include residential towers, shopping, and restaurants, broke ground in 2019 and this year is starting to reach substantial completion. Construction is scheduled to finish sometime in 2022. Carlyle Crossing will be located …
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The Denizen apartments in Alexandria opened in late 2019. The property was previously occupied by an industrial complex adjacent to Alexandria’s Metro Rail Yard. Construction began in 2017 on the 21-story building, along with the neighboring Eisenhower Square townhomes from Toll Brothers, which recently sold out. Denizen is the tallest building in the vicinity and …
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The Paramount at Reston is a 15-story condominium building at 1830 Fountain Drive. The highrise was built in 2005 and houses 100 units. It is currently the only highrise building in Reston’s “Town Center North” district, which is mostly developed with municipal buildings, including a library, police department, temporary fire station, and government center. Its …
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Another residential option recently opened within walking distance of the McLean Metro station, and this time the units are for sale. The Bexley is a five-story condo building with 140 units priced above $700,000, part of a new planned neighborhood the developer is calling “The Highland District.” Construction on the building completed this fall after …
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Not every construction project goes as planned. Renaissance Centro, a local real estate developer, has provided an example of this with the Monarch Tysons property. Conceived as a 20-story condo tower near Tysons Galleria, this development broke ground in April 2019 with a planned completion in late 2020. Late 2020 is here, and as can …
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The years-long effort to replace one of Reston’s original village centers with a new cluster of townhomes, townhome-style condominiums, and midrise condominium buildings has made considerable progress with the recent delivery of the first set of homes. Construction on additional units is expected to continue into next year. Tall Oaks Village Center was one of …
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Construction is coming along on the building that will serve as the new fire station in Reston. Being built on the Wiehle Avenue site of the station that was demolished early this year, this new two-story station is on-track to open in summer 2021. A temporary modular facility was placed near the North County Government …
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The Hanover Company, a real estate company based in Texas, is constructing a midrise apartment building at the corner of Jones Branch Drive and Westbranch Drive in the Tysons North Central District. The site was formerly occupied by the Stafford Building, a six-story Brutalist-style office building that had been vacant for some time. The building …
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The McLean Metro station is—despite the name—located in Tysons, Virginia. Sitting between the Capital One Center campus and State Route 123, the Silver Line stop was surrounded mostly by lowrise office parks when it first opened in 2014. These days, many of its immediate neighbors are construction sites. A few years from now, highrise buildings …
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Reston Gateway, the southward expansion of Reston Town Center (also called “RTC Next”), recently celebrated a milestone in construction with the topping out of 2000 Opportunity Way, the taller of the two office towers. The 28-story skyscraper, along with a connecting 20-story building (1950 Opportunity Way), has been under construction since late 2018 and is …
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After much delay, progress is now visible for two new restaurants coming to Reston Station’s Metro District. Both restaurants had been announced last year to open in early 2020, but with no formal updates on their status since. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of uncertainty in the foodservice industry this year and it …
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1900 Reston Metro Plaza was completed in 2017, but it was not until April 2019 that Comstock Companies found an anchor tenant for the 16-story building in Google, LLC. Now, over a year later, the technology company’s branding has been added to the building in a spot that is clearly visible from the nearby toll …
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The Pond Building in South Reston was built in the 1980s on top of its namesake body of water. Before development, the plot of land surrounding Roland Clarke Place was empty save for a ’70s-era office building that was home to the American Press Institute for years, and one of the transcontinental pipeline easements that …
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Situated at the main entrance to MITRE Corporation’s campus in Tysons, this building was constructed as one of the first new highrise buildings allowed near the McLean Metro station under the 2010 Tysons Comprehensive Plan. The 14-story, 255-foot tall office building opened in 2016 just a block from the Metro, and development is currently in …
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Tysons Central is a 21-story office building under construction at the Greensboro Metro station. It is the second of six highrise buildings in the mixed-use development sharing the same name. The first, apartment tower Lumen at Tysons, was completed in 2018. The other four buildings are planned to contain a mix of residential, hotel, and …
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Virginia State Routes 7 and 123 converge at a hill which marks the southwest point of Tyson’s Greensboro neighborhood. Situated on the northeast side of the intersection, 32-story Lumen at Tysons stands as the tallest building in Greensboro and the tallest residential building in the Washington metropolitan area. Due to its position on the hill, …
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Currently the tallest occupied office building in Reston, eighteen-story One Freedom Square was for a long time home to Leidos, one of Reston’s two Fortune 500 companies. Earlier this year the technology company moved its headquarters down the street to Reston Town Center’s newest addition, the 17Fifty building. Reston Town Center first expanded beyond the …
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Part of the Reston Town Center neighborhood, 12010 and 12012 Sunset Hills Road are two nine-story buildings which comprise Discovery Square. Not to be confused with the recently-built Herndon residential community of the same name, this office development was completed in 2001 during the time when the blocks surrounding the intersection of Virginia Route 267 …
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Last summer, Comstock announced that a Matchbox pizza location will call Reston Station home. Specifically, the restaurant is planned to occupy an unimproved 6,000 square foot space on the first floor of the Google-occupied office building at 1900 Metro Plaza. Originally, the plan was to open in early 2020, and join Founding Farmers as one …
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Development continues on the new Tall Oaks residential community that is taking the place of a small shopping center off North Shore Drive in Reston. Since last time we looked, the site grading has been completed and two rows of homes have been built up. The site plan calls for eleven rows total. Homebuilders typically …
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