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Proposal to reuse Sheraton Tysons Hotel as housing moves forward, despite park space concerns

Published December 19, 2023 at 10:15AM

Tysons West developer JBG Smith is seeking to convert the Sheraton Tysons Hotel into housing (via Fairfax County)

The potential benefits and challenges of converting commercial properties into housing both emerged during a public hearing last week on a proposal to repurpose the now-vacant Sheraton Tysons Hotel at 8661 Leesburg Pike.

Promising up to 544 new residential units, the project will boost the supply of housing in Tysons with a unique, market-rate affordable option, a representative for developer JBG Tysons Hotel touted at the hearing before the Fairfax County Planning Commission on Thursday (Dec. 14).

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Transfer of Franconia Governmental Center property for affordable housing deferred

By Fatimah Waseem

Published December 11, 2023 at 3:30PM

The current Franconia Governmental Center at 6121 Franconia Road (via Google Maps)

A plan to redevelop the site of the Franconia Governmental Center into an affordable housing development won’t move forward until the new year.

At a meeting last Tuesday (Dec. 5), the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors deferred a decision to transfer the nearly 3-acre property at 6121 Franconia Road to the Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority (FCRHA).

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Fairfax County moves to update guidelines requiring developers to assist displaced tenants

By Acacia James

Published December 4, 2023 at 11:45AM

The Wedgewood Apartments and other properties owned by the Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority would be subject to the new relocation guidelines if redeveloped (via Google Maps)

Fairfax County is looking to update its guidelines for how rental and mobile home developers can assist displaced tenants for the first time in a decade.

Director of Fairfax County Department of Housing and Community Development Tom Fleetwood presented the proposed guidelines to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors at a housing committee meeting last week (Nov. 28).

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Fairfax County could lower income ceiling of for-sale workforce housing policy

By Angela Woolsey

Published December 1, 2023 at 11:45AM

The Foster Glen townhomes in Oak Hill are the only development in Fairfax County currently selling workforce dwelling units at 120% AMI (via Google Maps)

In the future, people who earn more than Fairfax County’s median income will likely no longer be able to buy workforce housing.

A task force recommended to the Board of Supervisors housing committee on Tuesday (Nov. 28) that the top income bracket be dropped from the Workforce Dwelling Unit (WDU) Homebuyer Program, which currently provides price-controlled townhouses and condominiums to people who make 80% to 120% of the area median income (AMI).

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Board approves transfer of Herndon cricket field for affordable housing

By Fatimah Waseem

Published November 3, 2023 at 10:30AM

The Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority has acquired land at 13500 Dulles Greene Drive for future affordable housing (via Fairfax County)

A nearly 10-acre site just outside Herndon that is currently used as a cricket field is on the path towards redevelopment.

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Oct. 24 to transfer county-owned land at 13500 Dulles Greene Drive to the Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority for an affordable housing project.

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Years-long push to allow housing at former Topgolf in Kingstowne advances

By Acacia James

Published September 29, 2023 at 11:45AM

Rudy's has opened in the space formerly occupied by Top Golf in Kingstowne (staff photo by Brandi Bottalico)

A pitch for housing at the Kingstowne site previously occupied by Topgolf and now home to Rudy’s may finally become a reality.

The Fairfax County Planning Commission recommended on Wednesday (Sept. 27) that the Board of Supervisors approve a proposal to allow residential development at 6626 South Van Dorn Street. Most community members who spoke at the preceding public hearing voiced support for the proposal — a change of pace from the vocal opposition that greeted previous redevelopment plans.

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Proposal to replace Herndon area cricket field with affordable housing gets hearing

By Angela Woolsey

Published September 27, 2023 at 10:30AM

The Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority has acquired land at 13500 Dulles Greene Drive for future affordable housing (via Fairfax County)

The community will soon get a chance to comment on whether a temporary cricket field near the Innovation Center Metro station should be opened up to affordable housing proposals, even as the search for a replacement athletic facility continues.

The Board of Supervisors voted 9-1 yesterday (Tuesday) to schedule a public hearing on the proposed transfer of county-owned land at 13500 Dulles Greene Drive for Oct. 24 at 4:30 p.m.

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Residents protest rent increase, ‘unsafe’ living conditions at Groveton apartments

By Angela Woolsey

Published September 14, 2023 at 11:30AM

Lafayette Apartments residents gather to protest after property manager Jonathan Rose Companies recently raised their rents (courtesy TWU)

The rent is getting too high, residents of a committed affordable housing complex near Huntley Meadows Park say.

The owner of Lafayette Apartments (7136 Groveton Gardens Road) in Groveton increased rents starting on June 1, even though living conditions have become “unsafe” and “hazardous” in recent years, according to Tenant and Workers United (TWU), a local grassroots organization that supports advocacy efforts by low-income communities of color.

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Fairfax City’s first-ever for-sale affordable housing units open to residents

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 29, 2023 at 3:30PM

Restidents have started to move into the five townhouses designated as affordable dwelling units in Fairfax City's new Sutton Heights development (courtesy EYA)

Fairfax City’s first for-sale affordable dwelling units have officially become homes.

Residents have started moving into the designated units in the new Sutton Heights townhouse community at 3500 Pickett Road, developer EYA and the City of Fairfax announced today (Tuesday).

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More housing needed as Tysons population continues to surge, study finds

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 7, 2023 at 11:45AM

The Union Park at McLean condominiums in Tysons East (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Tysons is going to need more housing.

Home to 17,000 people in 2010, the urban center saw its population grow to 29,620 people by 2021, according to a market study released Friday (Aug. 4) by the Tysons Community Alliance. Fairfax County staff reported earlier this year that there are now 30,124 residents.