Here in Fairfax County, real estate is a spectator sport. Let’s take a look at some of the most and least expensive condos sold last month (April 2024).
Most expensive condos sold
- 7887 Jones Branch Dr Unit 1006 — Tysons Corner — $908,000 (2 beds | 2 baths | 1,100 sq. ft.)
- 8350 Greensboro Dr Unit 178/720 — Tysons Corner — $875,000 (2 beds | 2.5 baths | 2,069 sq. ft.)
- 11776 Stratford House Place Unit 1307 — Lake Anne — $830,000 (2 beds | 2 baths | 1,700 sq. ft.)
- 2903 Bleeker St Unit 5-205 — Fairfax — $705,000 (2 beds | 2 baths | 1,685 sq. ft.)
- 11500 Fairway Dr Unit 407 — Lake Anne — $694,000 (2 beds | 2 baths | 2,127 sq. ft.)
Least expensive condos sold*
- 3100 S Manchester St Unit 917 — Glencarlyn — (1 beds | 1 baths | 785 sq. ft.)
- 1951 Sagewood Ln Unit LC-05 — Reston — $210,000 (2 beds | 2 baths | 1,014 sq. ft.)
- 2638 Fort Farnsworth Rd Unit 114 — Huntington — $210,000 (1 beds | 1 baths | 849 sq. ft.)
*Minimum home value of $200,000 set to exclude certain land sales, retirement condos, properties with expiring ground leases, etc.
(Updated at 3:40 p.m.) Police are investigating a fatal crash on the Dulles Toll Road along the Reston and Herndon border.
The crash involved two vehicles that collided around 11:20 a.m. near Fairfax County Parkway, according to a Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) spokesperson.
One driver died at the scene, while the other was taken to a hospital. MWAA didn’t have any information about the hospitalized driver’s condition, but spokesperson Crystal Nosal confirmed that there were no passengers in either vehicle.
The highway’s eastbound lanes closed to traffic near Van Buren Street, the Virginia Department of Transportation said shortly after noon. Drivers were advised to expect delays and follow police directions.
Eastbound traffic was detoured off the highway via Exit 10 at Centreville Road, according to the Dulles Toll Road’s official Twitter account. The toll road reopened to traffic at 3:20 p.m. as MWAA Police wrapped up its investigation.
The DTR is still closed at 2 p.m. as police continue investigating a two-vehicle crash. The collision was a fatality.
— Dulles Toll Road (@Dulles_Toll_Rd) May 9, 2024
#Herndon: Rt 267 (@Dulles_Toll_Rd) EB lanes closed near Van Buren St due to crash. Expect delays and please follow @mwaapd direction. #VaTraffic pic.twitter.com/TZ8Z03JJ4t
— VDOT Northern VA (@VaDOTNOVA) May 9, 2024
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Owners of six Woofie’s franchises in Northern Virginia are hosting “Paws in the Park,” a pet adoption event on May 18 at 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (rain date May 19) at Wolf Trap National Park, Wolf Trap Farm Park, 1645 Trap Road, Vienna. They hope to bring awareness for local animal shelters and the need for “furever” families for animals.
Woofie’s will have about 20 mobile spa vans on site, offering free nail trims and Wash ‘n Go baths for rescued dogs and pups up for adoption, and special event pricing for families who bring their own pets for grooming (as time permits/allows).
Participating Woofie’s include Reston/Herndon, Ashburn-Leesburg, McLean, Western Loudoun, South Riding-Aldie and Fairfax. Food trucks, a DJ, local vendors, and more will be available. Ridgeside K9 and Keller Williams Realty are sponsoring the event.
The Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) will soon unveil its proposals for transforming Wiehle Avenue in Reston into a more pedestrian and bicycle-friendly street.
The department will host a community meeting at Langston Hughes Middle School (11401 Ridge Heights Road) on Thursday, May 23, from 7-9 p.m. to share three concepts for possible future improvements to the roadway.
“Concepts include lane reductions, wider sidewalks and landscaped buffers, dedicated bicycle facilities and roundabouts,” FCDOT said in a news release.
The county launched its Wiehle Avenue study in November with a community workshop, where attendees brainstormed ideas for improving the road between Sunrise Valley Drive and the Washington & Old Dominion Trail.
Plans to explore ways to turn Wiehle Avenue from a suburban road primarily designed to move cars into a “multimodal urban designed street” had been on the table since the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved a redevelopment of the Campus Commons office buildings (1900 & 1902 Campus Commons Drive) in 2019.
However, the board didn’t officially initiate the study until September 2021 after a group of residents and other community representatives rejected the Campus Commons developer’s proposals for a new pedestrian crossing on Wiehle at the Dulles Toll Road’s eastbound access ramps.
The Wiehle Avenue study will help determine a concept for the crossing, which will be funded in part by a $1.65 million contribution by Campus Commons developer TF Cornerstones.
FCDOT staff will use feedback from the upcoming community meeting to finalize a “preferred alternative” for the future Wiehle Avenue.
“FCDOT hopes to announce the Preferred Alternative by the end of this summer,” the department said.
A redevelopment of McLean Professional Park as condominiums will move forward with Fairfax County’s approval.
The Board of Supervisors gave a unanimous thumbs up on Tuesday (May 7) to property owner T&M McLean Ventures’ proposal to replace half of the office park’s 12 commercial townhouses with 104 for-sale residential units in a single, five-story building.
Occupying about 2.8 acres of the 4.4-acre site at 1477 Chain Bridge Road, the planned 235,000-square-foot condo building will be served by a 192-space underground parking garage and a private courtyard for residents with a multi-use lawn, firepits and grilling and seating areas.
The development plan features a 12,970-square-foot park space along Chain Bridge Road that will be open to the general public. T&M McLean has also committed to undergrounding utilities and constructing a 12-foot-wide shared-use path on Chain Bridge Road.
“The applicant has designed a very attractive building that’s going to add to the mix of uses in downtown McLean,” Walsh Colucci Lubeley & Walsh land use attorney Lynne Strobel said during the board’s public hearing on Tuesday, where she represented the developer.
Though a resident expressed concern about traffic and crowded schools at the Fairfax County Planning Commission’s hearing in March, T&M McLean’s proposal got only endorsements when it went before the Board of Supervisors.
Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce President Paul Kohlenberger testified that the business advocacy group supports adding housing in downtown McLean, arguing that new residents will help sustain local businesses long-term while protecting existing residential neighborhoods from “additional development pressure.”
The McLean Planning Committee (MPC) similarly made a case that the condos will further efforts to revitalize the downtown area, including by creating a more pleasant environment for pedestrians with the addition of the public park.
“We are due to see some positive development in this area, particularly of residences,” MPC Vice President Winnie Pizzano said. “We reviewed the project, and there was no opposition. As a resident, I look forward to improved streetscapes as well as the park area and the progression towards a more vibrant downtown McLean.”
Dranesville District Supervisor Jimmy Bierman concurred that residential development will be “absolutely critical to revitalizing the area,” describing the proposed building as a good fit for its surroundings.
He was particularly impressed by the property owner’s plan to outfit at least 20% of the garage parking spaces with electric vehicle charging stations.
“There are lots of things I love about this application, including the green space, including the park along Chain Bridge Road, including the undergrounding of utilities in front of the building, things that make it more walkable, more inviting,” Bierman said. “I like to say I’m looking forward to a time when McLean is a place to go to, not just to go through, and having more people living there and being part of that community is very helpful.”
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Fairfax County police are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash that shut down Georgetown Pike in Great Falls for hours early this morning (Thursday).
First responders with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department were dispatched to a “crash on fire” at the intersection of Georgetown Pike and Falls Chase Court near the Great Falls Church of Christ at 12:21 a.m., according to scanner traffic on Open MHz.
A police dispatcher reported that a 911 caller was “advising there’s a vehicle on fire that was involved in a crash” and that the driver was “possibly DOA.”
Upon arriving at the scene, an FCFRD responder confirmed at 12:25 a.m. that the driver had died, indicating that the car had crashed into a tree.
“He’s entrapped with what’s left of the car,” a responder said on the scanner.
The Fairfax County Police Department tweeted at 1:19 a.m. that its Crash Reconstruction Unit detectives were at the scene and Georgetown Pike was closed between Falls Chase Court and Falls Bridge Lane.
The road opened to traffic around 5 a.m., according to the FCPD.
Detectives from our Crash Reconstructive Unit are on scene of a single-vehicle fatal crash on Georgetown Pike and Falls Chase Ct in Great Falls. The motorist was pronounced deceased on scene. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/T2olcYH4fH
— Fairfax County Police (@FairfaxCountyPD) May 9, 2024
Megan Hargan’s 2017 murder of her mother and sister will take center stage in a new podcast series from the team behind the true-crime TV show “48 Hours.”
Produced by CBS News and Paramount Audio, the miniseries “Blood is Thicker: The Hargan Family Killings” will release the first of six planned episodes on the double murder case next Wednesday (May 8).
In the series, host and “48 Hours” correspondent Peter Van Sant uses interviews, tape of 911 calls, police transcripts and interviews of surviving family members, and other evidence to examine Hargan’s motives and how Fairfax County police detectives solved the case, according to a press release.
“This was a story that haunted the 48 Hours team — an unimaginable scenario where a daughter kills her own mother and sister,” Paramount Vice President of Podcast Editorial Megan Marcus said. “So many of us feel we know families like the Hargans, seemingly happy from the outside, which makes this particular tragedy all the more unreal. For that reason, we tried to understand the motivation and approach the victims and survivors with empathy.”
Hargan was sentenced to two life terms in prison on Jan. 26 for fatally shooting Pamela Hargan, her mother, and sister Helen Hargan at their McLean house on July 14, 2017. Police initially said Helen had killed Pamela before turning a gun on herself, but investigators later determined that Megan Hargan had staged the scene to look like a murder-suicide.
During two trials, prosecutors argued that Megan Hargan had killed her mother and sister out of resentment, because her mother was helping her sister buy a house, while declining to give her financial assistance for a house in West Virginia.
Hargan was initially convicted of first-degree murder and use of a firearm in a felony in March 2022, but the decision was vacated over juror misconduct claims. A second conviction for both the murder and firearm charges was delivered on Sept. 22.
“Blood Is Thicker” is one of several podcasts made by the “48 Hours” team, whose past audio work includes correspondent Erin Moriarty’s “My Life of Crime” series. Launched in 1988, the TV show “48 Hours” investigates crime and justice news stories and is now airing its 36th season.
The first episode of “Blood Is Thicker” is available now without ads to “48 Hours+” subscribers on Apple Podcasts and Wondry+. New episodes will be posted Wednesdays on Apple Podcasts, Wondry+, Spotify and other podcast platforms.
(Updated at 10:05 a.m.) A now-former Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) deputy was arrested earlier this week for allegedly assaulting a person being booked into the county jail in January.
According to the Fairfax County Police Department, Nicholas Vaszil, a 28-year-old Annandale resident, “assaulted an inmate” in the booking area of the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on around 3:45 a.m. on Jan. 1 “following a verbal altercation.”
The sheriff’s office’s internal affairs team notified the FCPD about the assault on Jan. 3, police said in a news release.
The sheriff’s office says it called police “immediately” after interviewing the inmate who was assaulted and witnesses. That initial inquiry indicated that there was “potential criminal activity” and resulted in Vaszil being placed on administrative leave on Jan. 2, according to Kathryn Ann Duffy Pavluchuk, a general counsel for the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office.
“At that point he was relieved of duty and did not work another shift after the date of the incident,” Pavluchuk told FFXnow by email.
The FCPD announced yesterday that Vaszil was charged with simple assault “following a thorough investigation” on Wednesday. He was terminated by the sheriff’s office on Jan. 30.
“The FCSO cooperated fully with the police department and is grateful to the FCPD for its thorough investigation,” Pavluchuk said. “The FCSO does not tolerate unnecessary or excessive uses of force and hopes for a just outcome in the criminal case.”
The full statement from the sheriff’s office is below:
The Sheriff’s Office is aware of charges against a former deputy sheriff for assaulting an inmate at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center. The Sheriff’s Office takes the safety and well-being of its population seriously. As soon as the assault was reported to the Sheriff’s Office, an initial inquiry led to this former deputy being placed on administrative leave on January 2, 2024. At that point he was relieved of duty and did not work another shift after the date of the incident.
Once the inmate and witnesses were interviewed and the existence of potential criminal activity was discovered, the police were called immediately. The FCSO cooperated fully with the police department and is grateful to the FCPD for its thorough investigation. The FCSO does not tolerate unnecessary or excessive uses of force and hopes for a just outcome in the criminal case.
Cookie Baked in Space to Be Displayed in Chantilly — “The first food ever baked in space is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia — and it’s a chocolate chip cookie…The dough was provided by McLean-based Hilton, the same cookie dough used to baked the warm chocolate chip cookies given at check-in to guests at its DoubleTree hotels.” [WTOP]
Longtime Hybla Valley Vacuum Store to Close — Sun Sew Vac will close on June 29 after nearly five decades of business. First opened in Mount Vernon Plaza in 1975 before moving to 7770 Richmond Highway in 2013, the vacuum and sewing machine store experienced a boom during the pandemic, but owner Robert Hines Jr. has now opted to retire. [On the MoVe]
Don’t Bother Baby Deer, Police Say — “Each spring, numerous fawns are frequently found causing residents to seek help from wildlife professionals to treat or raise these young animals. In most cases, fawns are healthy and need no human intervention.” Fawn rehabilitation is prohibited in Fairfax County after Chronic Wasting Disease was detected in a deer during the 2022-2023 hunting season. [FCPD]
Annandale Woman Concerned by Vape Shops — Thurraya Kent is “concerned about how many vape shops are in Fairfax County…Ms. Kent’s son died of a fentanyl overdose in January 2023. Her son Malcolm was 17 years old. Ms. Kent is not saying any of the Annandale vape shops had anything to do with her son’s death. But she’s still concerned about what these shops are selling.” [WJLA]
Community Hub in the Works for Culmore — “A new project in Culmore is connecting residents to healthcare, education, afterschool programs, and much more in their own neighborhood. The Culmore and Bailey’s Crossroads Place-Based Initiative (PBI) is creating a hub for community-serving programs at Culmore United Methodist Church.” [Annandale Today]
FCPD Seeks Grant to Assist With Recruiting — The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution on Tuesday (May 7) allowing the police department to accept a state grant for a new Criminal Justice Training Academy program that “will facilitate the transfer of former out-of-state, federal and military law-enforcement personnel who are seeking to relocate to Fairfax County.” [Gazette Leader]
Herndon Opens Registration for Summer Classes — “Hey Town of Herndon residents! Get ready for an epic summer! Registration is officially open for our summer classes and programs. From fitness to family fun, we’ve got it all. Don’t miss out on exciting events! Secure your spot now!” [Herndon Parks and Recreation/Twitter]
It’s Thursday — Expect scattered showers and thunderstorms, with mostly cloudy skies and a high near 76. Precipitation chances are 70%. Chances of showers and thunderstorms decrease to 50% before 2am, with a low temperature around 58 at night. [NWS]
