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Owner seeks to replace ‘obsolete’ Fairfax Ridge office building with housing

Published February 26, 2025 at 9:45AM

Time Equities in early 2025 proposed redeveloping the High Ridge office building with mixed-use housing (via Fairfax County)

Another proposal to replace office space with housing has been presented to Fairfax County.

Time Equities, a New York City-based developer, is seeking to replace the High Ridge office building near the I-66 and Route 50 interchange just outside Fairfax City with a residential building featuring up to 400 units and 5,500 square feet of commercial retail space.

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CVS Pharmacy to close over 30-year-old Vienna store this spring

By Angela Woolsey

Published February 25, 2025 at 2:30PM

CVS Pharmacy at the Cedar Park Shopping Center in Vienna (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Another longtime tenant of Vienna’s Cedar Park Shopping Center is on its way out.

After more than three decades at 264 Cedar Lane SE, CVS Pharmacy will close the location for good on April 1, a spokesperson confirmed. Signs announcing the closure date have now been posted in the store’s front door and windows.

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Parkour training gym to make leap from Lincolnia to Reston

By Angela Woolsey

Published February 25, 2025 at 9:45AM | Updated February 27, 2025 at 10:35AM

The office building at 11501 Sunset Hills Road in Reston (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A fitness center that has been offering classes in parkour, aerial silks and other specialized workouts for more than a decade will soon bid farewell to its longtime home in the Alexandria area.

MindShift Gym, previously known as Urban Evolution, announced earlier this month that its last day of business at 5505 Cherokee Avenue in Lincolnia will be March 31. The gym is in the process of relocating to a new facility in Reston that it hopes to open as soon as possible.

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Proposal to redevelop AT&T offices ignites new look at Oakton road conditions

By Angela Woolsey

Published February 25, 2025 at 9:00AM

A rendering of EYA's proposed AT&T office site redevelopment from Chain Bridge Road (via Fairfax County)

Everyone seems to agree that Oakton’s roadways are untenable for drivers as well as pedestrians and cyclists, especially in light of recent fatal crashes.

The dividing line between supporters and skeptics of a proposed overhaul of AT&T’s office campus and other mixed-use developments in the area has become whether they believe the impending projects will alleviate or exacerbate the current congested, hazardous status quo.

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Motorcyclist killed in Route 28 crash near I-66 in Centreville

By Angela Woolsey

Published February 24, 2025 at 3:00PM | Updated April 7, 2025 at 10:35AM

A Virginia State Police vehicle (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

Virginia State Police are investigating a crash on Route 28 that killed a motorcyclist yesterday (Sunday).

According to police, the crash occurred around 12:36 p.m. yesterday on the entrance ramp from southbound Route 28 (Sully Road) to the I-66 West Express Lanes in Centreville.

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Emergency repairs underway on Huntington Metro Station parking garage

By Angela Woolsey

Published February 24, 2025 at 2:30PM

Huntington Metro station parking garage roof (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

One of the parking garages at the Huntington Metro Station is off limits for the foreseeable future.

Metro closed the station’s north garage (2701 Huntington Avenue) at 1 a.m. on Saturday (Feb. 22) for emergency structural repairs to address the fire suppression system and other rehabilitation work, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority announced last Friday (Feb. 21).

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Fairfax officials reject blame for collapse of Prince William’s Route 28 bypass project

By Angela Woolsey

Published February 24, 2025 at 1:15PM

Construction crews continue work along Route 28 on Monday, March 7, 2022 (photo by David Taube)

A number of factors reportedly brought Prince William County’s long-gestating plans for a Route 28 bypass to a halt, but top Fairfax County officials say they were surprised to find fingers pointed at them.

The Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted 5-3 on Feb. 4 to cancel the Route 28 Bypass Project, which aimed to relieve traffic congestion by extending Godwin Drive at Sudley Road in Manassas to Route 28 (Centreville Road) near Compton Road in Fairfax County’s Centreville area.

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Chef visit to Tysons Corner Center among upcoming Black History Month events

By Angela Woolsey

Published February 21, 2025 at 11:15AM

Nordstrom's Marketplace Cafe at Tysons Corner Center (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Customers who stop by Tysons Corner Center’s Nordstrom this weekend will get a chance to sample free food — and meet the chefs behind the culinary creations.

As part of a Black History Month collaboration, the department store’s Marketplace Cafe will host chefs David and Tonya Thomas, founders of the Baltimore-based catering company H3irloom Food Group, for a pop-up meet and greet on Sunday (Feb. 23) from 12:30-2:30 p.m.

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Woman pleads guilty to defrauding Herndon farm cooperative

By Angela Woolsey

Published February 21, 2025 at 9:45AM

Dairy cows (via Daniel Quiceno M on Unsplash)

A Centreville woman could face up to two decades in prison for embezzling thousands of dollars from the Herndon-based farmers’ cooperative where she worked.

Paula Sue Leventhal, 64, pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday (Feb. 19) to wire fraud after she redirected $550,000 from the cooperative to her personal bank accounts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced.

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FCPD: Student arrested after allegedly bringing gun to Edison HS

By Angela Woolsey

Published February 20, 2025 at 6:10PM | Updated February 21, 2025 at 9:13PM

Thomas A. Edison High School along Franconia Road (staff photo by Matt Blitz)

An Edison High School student was arrested this morning (Thursday) for allegedly bringing a gun to the Rose Hill school.

According to the Fairfax County Police Department, a student alerted the school resource officer (SRO) assigned to Edison “about a possible firearm on school property.”