A pair of buildings in Reston’s Campus Commons office park may soon get a facelift, including a less common upgrade for office spaces: pickleball.
TF Cornerstone, the property owner of 1900 and 1902 Campus Commons Drive, has asked Fairfax County to determine whether proposed amenity upgrades conform to the conditions of the existing development.
The property owner is looking to update the landscaping updates, add active open space elements, and install two pickleball courts on the top level of the parking garage at 1881 Campus Commons Drive.
A new crosswalk across Campus Commons Drive would also be installed to improve pedestrian access to the parking garage and pickleball courts, which are intended for employees only.
The New York-based developer also hopes to paint the surface parking lot to create a “ribbon” that wraps around the 1900 and 1902 buildings and visually connects to roadway to 1881 Campus Commons Drive “by highlighting notes of activation, including tenant amenity areas and passive landscape enhancements.”
“The painted ribbon facilitates a half-mile walking loop and will be stamped on the asphalt,” LandDesign Director Jack Scanlon wrote in the Aug. 30 letter to the county. The application was first reported by the Washington Business Journal.
The owner plans to replace some areas of excess surface parking with landscape upgrades and two amenity spaces that could feature furniture, seating areas, turf area with cornhole, and shade structures.
“The proposed interim improvements do not change or intensity the use of the property, do not increase the amount of impervious area draining to any stormwater facility, or materially affect the character of the property,” the letter says.
Campus Commons spans around 18 acres and 484,000 square feet of office space across three buildings, which were built in the mid-1980s.
TF Cornerstone won the county’s approval for a massive mixed-use development of the property in 2019. That plan called for two residential towers with 656 units, a new office building and seven public parks. The two existing office buildings would remain on the site.
However, no construction has been undertaken on the redevelopment. Last year, the developer agreed to give the county funds in lieu of a promised pedestrian crossing for Wiehle Avenue at the Dulles Toll Road after its proposed concepts failed to gain support.
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