Photos: Tysons Central under construction

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 …

Photo: Lumen at Tysons

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, …

Photo: One Freedom Square

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 …

Photos: Discovery Square in Reston

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 …

Fairfax County will consider the latest in a long series of changes to Capital One’s headquarters campus

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 …

Comstock completes acquisition of future “Reston Row” site

In a recent press release, Comstock announced that the company had closed on a deal with Fairfax County for the purchase of an acre of land near the Reston Station mixed-use development. This purchase completes Comstock’s single ownership of the land currently occupied by Sunset Hills Professional Center, which the company began acquiring in 2016. …