The last piece of the Park Crest development in Tysons is starting to take shape.
Developer Renaissance Centro has submitted a site plan to Fairfax County for a 206-unit residential building that would be constructed on currently vacant land near the Westpark Drive and Park Run Drive intersection.
The seven-floor building will be supported by 260 garage parking spaces and include a 1,543-square-foot “retail cellar” adjacent to the lobby, according to the site plan, which is being reviewed by county staff.
While there’s no indication yet of what retail tenants will be considered, the plan does show some proposed features, including a dog spa, a gazebo on the Park Run Drive side of the building, a courtyard facing Westpark Drive and a covered patio.
“The new building will have a wide array of amenities, services and floorplans catering to a burgeoning active adult population,” Renaissance Centro Director Albert Small said.
With the project still in the planning stages, the developer anticipates starting construction in spring 2026, Small says.
Renaissance Centro’s building will be part of the Park Crest development approved by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in January 2003. Encompassing 13.5 acres in the northwest quadrant of the Park Run and Westpark intersection, the original plan called for 1,354 residential units — including four multifamily buildings and 58 townhouses — and up to 53,780 square feet of retail space.
Subsequent revisions in 2004 and 2010 replaced the townhouses with a fifth multifamily building, which became the Lofts at Park Crest apartments, and removed a health club building in favor of the urban plaza now outside the Ovation at Park Crest apartments.
Though the amendments didn’t affect the overall plan for Renaissance Centro’s building, designated as “Building 3” in the Park Crest plan, the developer is looking to make some “minor” modifications, McGuireWoods land-use attorney Gregory Riegle said in an Aug. 7 letter to the county’s planning and zoning director.
Among the proposed changes is the addition of a porte-cochere at the building’s main pedestrian entrance, partly to make up for the loss of planned street parking that got eliminated in order to expand its footprint and bring it closer to Crestwood Heights Drive.
“The proposed porte-cochere combines these two elements (pedestrian entrance and vehicular drop-off and pick-up) for a better resident experience for drop-off and pick-up, still centrally located along the façade,” Riegle wrote, seeking confirmation from the county that the changes won’t require amendments to the approved development plan.
Other changes include:
- Separate entrances to the upper and lower levels of the parking garage
- A new retaining wall separating the property from the plaza near the Ovation apartments
- A single, T-shaped courtyard that’s open to Westpark Drive, rather than the two separate courtyards — one open and one entirely enclosed by the building — previously proposed
In his letter, Riegle contended that the planned building will finally fulfill the 20-year-old vision for Park Crest and boost the customer base for nearby retail businesses.
The neighborhood is currently without a retail anchor after Harris Teeter closed its doors on the ground floor of the Lofts on July 20. An adjacent Starbucks Coffee remains open.
“Renaissance Centro, LLC is poised to complete the Park Crest community with a high quality multifamily building that meets the density and use stipulations of the Park Crest approval and that will provide more of the long-awaited residential base to support the retail in the area,” Riegle wrote. “With Harris Teeter now closed, completing the Park Crest community with the additional or over 200 residential units will contribute to the success of releasing the former Harris Teeter space.”
The Park Crest development plan includes a commitment to having a grocery store or market, but there’s been no word yet on the future of the now-vacant Harris Teeter space.
Greystar, the property manager for the Lofts, didn’t return a request for comment by press time.
