This year promises to be a big one for Reston Station.
Most pieces of Reston Row, a new district expanding the development along Sunset Hills Road near the Wiehle Metro station, are on track to finish construction by the end of 2025, according to a spokesperson for the developer Comstock Companies.
First to be delivered will likely be the French-style bakery Tous les Jours and the Japanese restaurant Noku Sushi, which have both leased space on the ground level of a new office building at 1800 Reston Row Plaza. Expected to open this summer, the eateries will join Vida Fitness, which opened last spring, as the district’s first retailers.
So far, Comstock has confirmed two other retail tenants for Reston Row: Puttshack, a high-tech indoor mini golf facility, and Ebbitt House, a new American grill concept from the company behind Clyde’s of Reston. Both could open this September, but that’s subject to change, as is often the case with construction projects.
“Contractors are targeting a September opening, but until the build-out officially begins, there’s a possibility of delays into the fall,” the Comstock spokesperson told FFXnow.
Also aiming for a September launch is the JW Marriott Hotel and Residences, a 26-story high-rise that will deliver 243 extended-stay hotel rooms and 94 condominiums. The building’s amenities will include approximately 25,000 square feet of meeting and event space, a rooftop dog park, private lounges and more.
The development will add another housing option with the anticipated fall 2025 delivery of the BLVD Haley Apartments, a 30-floor, 419-unit residential building that topped off last spring and will complement the existing BLVD Reston Station apartments on the Metro station plaza.
Finally, Comstock says it’s working with tenants now on their office space plans. In addition to the 13-story, 322,000-square-foot building at 1800 Reston Row, there will be 22,674 square feet of office space in a 10-story building at 1880 Reston Row Plaza.
The developer hasn’t disclosed much information about the office tenants yet, outside of a recently announced lease for Inova 360° Concierge Medicine in the 1880 building. Last month, Comstock filed plans with Fairfax County requesting the option for a future office tenant to add an elevated pedestrian bridge connecting the two buildings.
“Interior construction is set to begin later this year and will take approximately six months to complete,” the Comstock spokesperson said of the office buildings.
Overall, Reston Row will total 1.6 million square feet of new development, supported by an underground parking garage that the spokesperson says is already open and operating.
With the district expected to mostly finish construction this year, Comstock submitted an application to revise to its signage plan for Reston Station to the county on Jan. 10, seeking to increase the allowed sign area by 2,210 square feet. Proposed changes include additional signs for the hotel/condo building and two new signs for “critical office tenants” coming to Reston Row.
“The proposed signage is located and sized as to ensure convenience and appropriate wayfinding to the visitors, users and occupants of Reston Station and Reston Row while not adding to street clutter or otherwise detracting from the planned nature of the Reston Station Neighborhood,” Hunton Andrews Kurth land use attorney Jill Parks wrote in a statement for the special exception application.
Reston Station could expand even more later this year if construction starts as expected on new portions of the Midline District on the east side of Wiehle Avenue. The neighborhood currently consists of the Townhomes at Reston Station, which finished construction last summer.
Last August, developer EYA said it hopes to start an apartment building within the next year, and Comstock confirmed it expects to demolish two vacant office buildings at 1831 and 1861 Wiehle Avenue this year to make way for a planned multi-family residential building and an independent senior living facility.
The Comstock buildings will have approximately 49,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, including a Fresh Market grocery store. While the existing office buildings are slated for demolition this year, Comstock is “still working on [a] timeline” for starting construction, its spokesperson says.
