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Report: Facebook owner might shrink Reston Town Center office

Published August 8, 2024 at 11:30AM

The entrance to the office building at 1818 Library Street in Reston Town Center (via Google Maps)

Meta, the technology company that owns Facebook and Instagram, appears to be planning a dramatic downsizing of its office space in Reston Town Center, the Washington Business Journal says.

A listing on the commercial real estate database CoStar indicates that two floors of the office building at 1818 Library Street will become available in June 2025, the WBJ reported yesterday (Wednesday). That would amount to 51,000 square feet or two-thirds of the roughly 75,000 square feet of office space that Facebook leased in 2019.

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Annual Cardboard Boat Regatta to dock in Reston this Saturday

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 7, 2024 at 2:30PM

Teams race in the annual Lake Anne Cardboard Boat Regatta (courtesy Reston Museum)

Dozens of cardboard boats will populate the waters of Lake Anne in Reston this Saturday (Aug. 10) for the 2024 Cardboard Boat Regatta.

The popular annual event, where community members race each other in life-sized cardboard boats that they built and decorated by hand, will return Lake Anne Plaza (1639 Washington Plaza North), starting at noon and ending at 3 p.m.

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Avoid Georgetown Pike bridge over I-495 during coming lane closures, VDOT warns

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 7, 2024 at 1:30PM | Updated August 14, 2024 at 5:32PM

The Georgetown Pike Bridge over I-495 will be reduced to one travel lane in each direction during the weekend of Aug. 16-19 (via VDOT)

The Georgetown Pike bridge over I-495 in McLean will partially close for a full weekend later this month so traffic can be shifted to new lanes.

The Virginia Department of Transportation is advising drivers to avoid the interchange during what it’s calling “Stay-Away Weekend” if they don’t want to get caught up in the congestion that’ll likely be created by the lane reductions and ramp closures.

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New Reston Association website on track for September launch

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 7, 2024 at 11:45AM | Updated August 7, 2024 at 7:49PM

Reston Association (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

Reston Association’s new, permanent website is almost ready to go live.

The redesigned website is expected to roll out September, communications director Cara O’Donnell told the Board of Directors on July 25. The launch would come more than four years after outdated software prompted the homeowners’ association to take down its previous online home and transition to a temporary, more limited platform.

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Big water main break shuts down South George Mason Drive

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 7, 2024 at 9:45AM | Updated August 7, 2024 at 10:56AM

A water main break has closed northbound South George Mason Drive in Bailey's Crossroads (via FCPD/Twitter)

Northbound South George Mason Drive in Bailey’s Crossroads has been closed for over 12 hours due to a major water main break.

The Fairfax County Police Department reported the break near 7313 South George Mason Drive near Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) in the Skyline neighborhood at 9:39 p.m. yesterday (Tuesday). Water can be seen gushing up from under the street in a video shared by the department.

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JUST IN: Arrest made in Bailey’s Crossroads attempted sexual assault

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 6, 2024 at 4:20PM

A parked Fairfax County police car (file photo)

A Chesterfield man has been arrested in connection with an attempted sexual assault in Bailey’s Crossroads over the weekend, police say.

Officers were dispatched to a small row of houses in the 3500 block of Carlin Springs Road around 5 a.m. on Saturday (Aug. 3) for a sexual assault, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

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Local ice cream shop honors Olympic athletes with limited-time sundaes

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 6, 2024 at 2:30PM

Toby's Homemade Ice Cream is offering limited-time Gold Medal Sundaes during the Paris Olympics (courtesy Toby's Homemade Ice Cream/Instagram)

With D.C.-area athletes riding high at this year’s Summer Games, Toby’s Homemade Ice Cream is serving up gold medal-themed scoops that probably taste sweeter than the real thing.

The Arlington and Vienna ice cream parlor unveiled a limited-time Gold Medal Sundae last Friday (Aug. 2) in honor of Arlingtonian swimmer Torri Huske, a Yorktown High School graduate who’s won five medals — three of them gold — at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Reston church donates school supplies to elementary students

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 6, 2024 at 1:30PM

Local high school student Bryce Merfeld donated 50 backpacks to Trinity Church Reston's school supply drive (courtesy Trinity Church Reston)

Hundreds of students at Reston’s Forest Edge Elementary School will head to class later this month with brand-new backpacks, thanks to a donation drive organized by a local church.

Congregants brought 240 backpacks filled with school supplies to the Trinity Church Reston campus (1950 Isaac Newton Square West) on Sunday (Aug. 4), according to campus pastor Robbie Hall, who thanked the donors for their generosity during the church’s 10 a.m. service.

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Park Authority seeks tenant to rehabilitate historic Tysons house

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 6, 2024 at 11:30AM

Inside the historic Ash Grove house in Tysons (via Fairfax County Park Authority/Flickr)

The clock is ticking on a chance to live in Tysons rent-free — if you’ll agree to restore and maintain the historic property.

The Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA) is accepting applications until Aug. 24 at 5 p.m. for a resident curator for Ash Grove, one of the county’s few still-standing houses from the 18th century.

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NEW: Bonchon to revive Herndon and Annandale restaurants

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 6, 2024 at 10:30AM

Bonchon sells Korean fried chicken (courtesy Bonchon)

Bonchon Chicken is plotting a comeback in Herndon and Annandale.

The Korean fried chicken chain plans to reopen its Herndon location under different owners, and it has secured a new space in Annandale within the same shopping center where the business saw its previous restaurant destroyed by a fire.