Herndon’s business community expressed overall levels of satisfaction with the town in a recent survey, but some say they want the town to focus more on expanding support for businesses.
Presented at a Herndon Town Council work session on Tuesday (Sept. 19), the results were gathered from a business survey by Priority Metrics Group (PMG), which included 155 respondents, the average of which has been in the town for 17 years.
The Fairfax County Courthouse will soon lend a helping hand to visitors intimidated by the prospect of navigating the legal system on their own.
The county’s new Self Help Resource Center will officially open at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 5 with a kick-off event in the courthouse law library (4110 Chain Bridge Road, Room 115), the Fairfax Bar Association recently announced.
(Updated at 6:20 p.m.) Three people were arrested earlier this week for stealing thousands of dollars in merchandise from Tysons Corner Center businesses, police say.
At 9:09 p.m. on Tuesday (Sept. 19), a worker at Sunglass Hut in the mall reported that the store had just been robbed, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
Gallows Road Study Identifies Safety, Traffic Issues — “The Gallows Road Multimodal Study is exploring ways to make the seven-mile corridor safer for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users, while reducing traffic congestion…FCDOT found most of Gallows Road is uncomfortable for pedestrians, due to the large number of lanes, the 35 mph speed limit, and narrow buffers between the sidewalk and roadway.” [Annandale Today]
D.C. Area Healthcare Workers Authorize Strike — “Some 3,800 union healthcare workers in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., are threatening to go on strike at the end of this month if the leadership at Kaiser Permanente and the union cannot agree to a new contract addressing staffing shortages and low pay for workers.” The company’s facilities include medical centers in Fair Oaks and Burke. [Maryland Matters]
Homes going to contract across the region for the week ending Sept. 17 saw a major bump up from a week before, but other market-performance data pointed to ongoing soft conditions.
The total number of purchase contracts reported regionally – 1,268 – was up 21.7 percent from a week before if still down 22.6 percent from a year ago, according to figures reported by Bright MLS.
There’s still time for an amicable conclusion, but members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Sept. 12 took a procedural step to keep the long-planned replacement of a major sewer pipe in Merrifield on track.
On an 8-2 vote, supervisors gave county staff the power to begin condemnation proceedings that would allow the county government to use a portion of a commercial property at 8315 Lee Highway for installation of a new 563-linear-foot sewer.
There are some signs that the lack of home inventory across the region may ease this fall, but portions of McLean, Vienna, Oakton and Great Falls each saw such limited supply in August that many prospective home-buyers didn’t even bother jumping in.
That’s the conclusion of the latest Bright MLS T3 Home-Demand Index, released Sept. 12, which pointed to limited inventory in McLean’s 22101 and 22102 ZIP codes along wiith Oakton’s 22124, Vienna’s 22182 and Great Falls’s 22066.
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Overall private-sector employment in the Northern Virginia portion of the Washington metropolitan area stands about 3.4 percent above in pre-pandemic times, according to new data from the Virginia Employment Commission.
Average sales prices across all three segments of the Fairfax County real-estate market showed major year-over-year jumps in August sales data, even as home sales continue to be held back by availability and affordability issues.
The average sales price of the 1,100 properties that went to closing across the county last month was $845,311, up 17.2 percent, according to figures reported by MarketStats by ShowingTime based on listing activity from Bright MLS.
A proposal to revamp the Pan Am Shopping Center in the Vienna area of Fairfax County may breathe new life into an historic nearby cemetery.
In taking a procedural step forward on the development plan, Fairfax supervisors (strongly) suggested the shopping center’s owner make an effort to assist the family whose ancestors rest in the burial ground.
