Documenting Northern Virginia's Urban Transformation
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 …
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An 18-story former hotel in Arlington’s Rosslyn neighborhood will be demolished via controlled implosion Sunday morning. The Rosslyn Holiday Inn at 1900 Fort Myer Drive opened in 1972 and is one of the oldest buildings visible in the Rosslyn skyline. The demolition will make way for the Key, a new mixed-use development consisting of two …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Read More “The Mather, a senior community in Tysons, to open first phase in 2023”
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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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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The collection of various construction projects near the Wiehle–Reston East Metro station now includes 115 future townhomes being built by local developer EYA. Earlier this year it was reported that an office trailer was set up near Wiehle Avenue, and EYA is using it as a sales center for the neighborhood, which is scheduled to …
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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 deal is for 196,000 square feet in a new office tower that will also be occupied by Fannie Mae starting in 2022. The space is part of a development (also known as Reston Next) which will expand Reston Town Center with over four million square feet of mixed use space. Construction is currently underway …
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Reston Gateway (now also called “Reston Next”) sits between the Reston Town Center’s urban core and the future Washington Metro station, and has been in the works for much of the past decade. The mixed-use site is zoned to include, among other buildings, a 240 key hotel, although last year a proffer interpretation allowed Boston …
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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 …