Documenting Northern Virginia's Urban Transformation
In two recently-filed applications, subsidiaries of the Tysons-based financial company are proposing new permanent and temporary amenities for Capital One Center, as well as the parcel once known as “Scott’s Run North” across the street. A public plaza is planned for the (future) north entrance to the McLean Metro station, which will be complemented on …
Macerich, owner of Tysons Corner Center, has some big changes in mind for the popular shopping mall. The company recently asked Fairfax County for (and was granted) a proffer and plan interpretation that would allow a significant reconfiguration of the recently-built elevated plaza area. The plan is to raze the building that was formerly owned …
As part of its performing arts center in Tysons, Capital One is preparing to open The Perch, a rooftop park with a beer garden, performance stage, public art, park space, and pop-up food vendors. Recently, the company reached out to Fairfax County officials to request a proffer interpretation for Capital One Center related to the …
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Signs of life have appeared for retail at Capital One Center. A nail salon and restaurant are coming to the ground floor of the Capital One headquarters tower in Tysons, a source has confirmed to Reston Skylines, and this news has been corroborated by recently issued building permits. The nail salon, Nothing In Between Studio, …
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7901 Westpark Drive in Tysons, formerly the home of the Association for Manufacturing Technology, is planned to someday be developed with a new, glass-clad, 10-story office building named “City View Tysons.” Currently though, the site sits empty following the excavation for the building foundation. The owner made the decision to market the property after a …
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Digging has begun on the future site of Skanska’s new multifamily building near the McLean Metro station. The Heming, a 28-story apartment highrise, will be built at the corner of Colshire Drive and Chain Bridge Road and is expected to open in late 2022. Construction was announced around the beginning of the year, but no …
Read More “Excavation underway for foundation of the Heming in Tysons East”
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 …
Read More “Photos: Abandoned Monarch Tysons construction site”
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 …
Read More “Site preparation commences for Brentford at the Mile apartment building”
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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, …
Last month the county Planning Commission recommended approval of the change to the Capital One development plan that will provide yet another office tower to the scaffold-covered mixed-use center. The application garnered the support of county staff and local civic groups, and the Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing tomorrow, July 14 to …