Documenting Northern Virginia's Urban Transformation
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 …
Just a block away from the active construction on Hanover Tysons, one more of Northern Virginia’s derelict office buildings has been taken down, making way for Kettler to develop another midrise apartment community. Brentford at the Mile, set to begin construction soon and deliver in early 2022, will be a 7-story building with 411 homes …
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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 …
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 …
Brookfield Properties has proposed a new conceptual development plan that will improve the planned street grid for the under-construction Halley Rise mixed-use neighborhood in Reston. Although plans for three of the development’s eight blocks have not been finalized, the property owners intend to build the submitted new street grid concurrent with ongoing construction so that …
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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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The self-described “life plan community” will consist of two apartment towers connected by a five-story shared podium that will feature ground-floor retail and building amenities. Site work commenced in spring 2020 with the removal of the existing lowrise office building. The Mather is one of several upcoming developments that make up the “Arbor Row” neighborhood …
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Suites are now available for booking at Reston’s newest hotel, the five-story, 135-room Homewood Suites by Hilton Reston. The hotel was scheduled to open this coming weekend but a definite opening date had not been announced ahead of time. The hotel contains four room types, including King or Queen bed options, and an executive suite. …
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