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VDOT celebrates as project to widen Route 29 outside Centreville nears finish

Published October 13, 2026 at 2:45PM

VDOT NOVA district engineer Bill Cuttler, Supervisor Pat Herrity (Springfield District), Chairman Jeff McKay, Supervisor Kathy Smith (Sully District) and Northern Virginia Transportation Authority CEO Monica Backmon gather for a ribbon-cutting near the newly completed Route 29 project (courtesy VDOT)

Officials from Fairfax County and the Virginia Department of Transportation recently gathered to celebrate the impending completion of a nearly 4-year-long, $94.4 million project aimed at alleviating a key bottleneck on Route 29, near the Centreville area.

Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay, Sully District Supervisor Kathy Smith, Springfield District Supervisor Pat Herrity, and VDOT officials cut a ceremonial ribbon on Oct. 8 to mark the end of the widening project, which extends for 1.5 miles between Union Mill Road and Buckleys Gate Drive.

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NOVA Parks seeks ideas to transform Centreville’s Bull Run events center

By Mary Stachyra Lopez

Published October 8, 2026 at 11:45AM

A ferris wheel is shown during a winter carnival at the Bull Run Festival of Lights (Staff photo by Mary Stachyra Lopez)

Over the years, the Bull Run Special Events Center in Centreville has hosted just about every type of large-scale event: a winter carnival, the circus, events for foodies and wine aficionados, and cultural festivals of every kind.

Now, NOVA Parks, which runs Bull Run Regional Park, wants to look to the future and find “transformative” ideas for what the venue could become.

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Fairfax County hands Centreville library site to housing authority after residents weigh in

By Mary Stachyra Lopez

Published October 7, 2026 at 1:45PM | Updated October 8, 2026 at 5:05PM

The Centreville Regional Library (Staff photo by Mary Stachyra Lopez)

Fairfax County is moving through the early stages of an ambitious plan to renovate the Centreville Regional Library and combine it with affordable housing.

During a public hearing before the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Sept. 29, more than half a dozen residents offered a range of views on the plan to construct 180 multifamily residential units and community space alongside the to-be-redeveloped library, located on just over 4 acres at 14200 Saint Germain Drive.

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NOVA Parks approves $2.3 million for Bull Run Festival of Lights, Pohick Bay park upgrades

By Emily Leayman

Published September 28, 2026 at 10:00AM | Updated October 1, 2026 at 3:18PM

A sign for Pohick Bay Regional Park (file photo)

Plans for upgrades at two NOVA Parks-owned Fairfax County properties are getting a boost under the regional park system’s latest capital budget.

The fiscal years 2027-2031 budget adopted by the NOVA Parks Board of Directors on Sept. 17 allocates $1.5 million for campground renovations at Pohick Bay Regional Park in Lorton and $880,000 for light show improvements at Bull Run Regional Park’s Festival of Lights in Centreville.

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Centreville’s 41-acre Trinity Centre office park could be replaced with housing

By Mary Stachyra Lopez

Published September 15, 2026 at 2:45PM

A multifamily residential building in Stanley Martin Homes and JLB Partners' proposed Trinity Centre redevelopment (via KTGY/Fairfax County)

Two developers are hoping to build a significant amount of new housing on a 41-acre area in Centreville that is currently home to four office buildings.

On the heels of Fairfax County approving an updated long-term vision for a large part of the Centreville area, affiliates of developers Stanley Martin Homes and JLB Partners filed a rezoning application in early September offering two options for redeveloping the Trinity Centre office park.

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UPDATED: Man shot wife, then himself at their Centreville home, police say

By Mary Stachyra Lopez

Published September 9, 2026 at 8:10PM | Updated September 10, 2026 at 7:41PM

Fairfax County Police Department officer Ingrid Palencia, a public affairs officer, leads a press conference in a Centreville neighborhood after a shooting on Sept. 9, 2026 (via FCPD/Facebook)

The shooting deaths of a Centreville husband and wife are believed to be a murder-suicide, the Fairfax County Police Department confirmed today (Sep. 10).

Officers were dispatched to the 6300 block of Sharps Drive after a family member living in the same residence called 911 to report the shooting around 5:30 p.m. yesterday.

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Renovations begin this fall at seven Fairfax County playgrounds

By Mary Stachyra Lopez

Published September 8, 2026 at 10:00AM

Cub Run Stream Valley Park is shown earlier this year. A heron is visible in the stream in the distance. (Staff photo by Mary Stachyra Lopez)

Seven Fairfax County playgrounds will get a glow-up this fall, as the Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA) updates the areas to improve accessibility and provide new amenities.

The playgrounds getting updates are located in Borge Street Neighborhood Park in Oakton, Bren Mar Park and Lincolnia Park in Lincolnia, Cub Run Stream Valley Park in Centreville, and Loisdale Park in Springfield, according to a press release from the FCPA.

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Man sentenced to prison for fatal shooting outside Centreville Dunkin’ Donuts

By Angela Woolsey

Published September 4, 2026 at 2:45PM

Fairfax County Police Capt. Kent Bailey briefs media on a shooting in Centreville on May 15, 2024 (via FCPD/Facebook)

A Centreville man will spend at least the next six years in prison for killing an 18-year-old outside a Dunkin’ Donuts over a marijuana deal two years ago.

Hassan Kanu, who’s now 20 but was also 18 at the time of the shooting, was sentenced yesterday (Sept. 3) by a Fairfax County Circuit Court judge to 10 years in prison with four of them suspended, following a conviction in March of voluntary manslaughter.

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Planned transfer of Centreville library site to housing authority set for public hearing

By Mary Stachyra Lopez

Published September 3, 2026 at 2:45PM

The Centreville Regional Library (Staff photo by Mary Stachyra Lopez)

Fairfax County has ambitious plans to renovate the Centreville Regional Library and combine it with a new affordable housing development.

But before that project can move forward through a public-private partnership, the county needs to transfer ownership of the property itself: from the Board of Supervisors to the county’s Redevelopment and Housing Authority (FCRHA).

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Korean pot rice restaurant coming to former Tippy’s Taco in Centreville

By Mary Stachyra Lopez

Published August 24, 2026 at 3:45PM | Updated August 25, 2026 at 1:22PM

Dam-Sot is coming soon to Centreville (Staff photo by Mary Stachyra Lopez)

A Korean pot rice restaurant is set to fill the space in Centreville’s Centrewood Plaza vacated this summer by longtime tenant Tippy’s Taco House.

Dam-Sot, a restaurant specializing in premium rice dishes, will open at 14119 St. Germain Drive near the Giant food store that anchors the shopping plaza.