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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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Walmart prepares for major office renovation in Herndon

By James Jarvis

Published May 24, 2024 at 1:30PM

Site of Walmart offices at 2245 Monroe St in Herndon (via Google Maps)

Retail giant Walmart is finally planning to move into Herndon, more than four years after it originally leased office space in the area.

According to Fairfax County records, the discount department and grocery store chain filed for permits last month to renovate the first four floors of the six-floor office building at 2245 Monroe Street, totaling approximately 83,300 square feet.

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National architecture firm consolidates N. Va. offices in Tysons

By Angela Woolsey

Published March 8, 2024 at 1:30PM

Little Diversified Architectural Consulting recently moved its D.C. area office to Pinnacle Towers in Tysons (courtesy Little Diversified Architectural Consulting)

The architecture consulting firm that helped design Capital One Center’s baseball stadium now has a base of its own in Tysons.

Little Diversified Architectural Consulting moved into a new office in Pinnacle Towers (1753 Pinnacle Drive) at the end of February, a spokesperson for the national company announced on Feb. 29.

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USA Today publisher Gannett moves out of longtime Tysons HQ

By Angela Woolsey

Published March 4, 2024 at 3:30PM | Updated March 4, 2024 at 4:02PM

Valo Park office complex at 7950 Jones Branch Drive in Tysons (Staff Photo by Jay Westcott)

Newspaper publisher Gannett has left its longtime home in Tysons.

The media company behind USA Today and hundreds of local news outlets across the U.S. moved out of its headquarters at Valo Park (7950 Jones Branch Drive) in February, setting the stage for a relocation to New York City.

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Land development consultant to open new office in Dunn Loring

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 13, 2023 at 2:30PM

The MetroPlace I office building in Dunn Loring (courtesy LDC)

A land design and engineering firm will expand soon with a new office in Fairfax County, where it already regularly consults on development projects.

Headquartered in Woodbridge, Land Design Consultants (LDC) announced Thursday (Nov. 9) that it will open a second Northern Virginia office in Metroplace I, an 8-floor office building at 2650 Park Tower Drive near the Dunn Loring Metro station.

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D.C. area office cleaners win pay raises in contract agreement, avoiding strike

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 11, 2023 at 11:45AM

Del. Holly Seibold speaks at 32BJ SEIU's strike vote rally for Fairfax and Loudoun county office cleaners (courtesy 32BJ SEIU)

The workers who clean office buildings around Fairfax County won’t have to hit the picket lines anytime soon.

The union representing about 9,100 commercial office cleaners in the D.C. area reached a tentative agreement yesterday (Tuesday) for a new contract with property owners in the Washington Service Contractors Association (WSCA), averting a potential strike.

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Fairfax and Loudoun office cleaners vote to strike if needed over wages

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 5, 2023 at 9:30AM

Alejandria Paz, a member of 32BJ SEIU's bargaining team, addresses fellow cleaners ahead of a strike vote in Reston (courtesy 32BJ SEIU)

Another strike may be on the horizon for the D.C. area, this time led by office cleaners who say wages have stagnated even after they were expected to keep working through the pandemic.

About 9,100 janitors, more than 3,000 of them in Northern Virginia, are voting this week on whether to go on strike if they’re unable to agree on a new contract with the Washington Service Contractors Association (WSCA) before the existing one expires on Oct. 15.

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Recycling center or storage facility proposed for vacant Lorton property

By Fatimah Waseem

Published June 7, 2023 at 3:45PM

A possibility of three uses is being proposed for the Lorton site (Image via Google Maps).

A vacant property along I-95 near Lorton Marketplace may not be vacant for much longer.

Milestone Properties is pitching either a recycling center or storage facility for the nearly three-acre site at 9420 Gunston Cove Road, which is currently home to a 75-foot retaining wall that will remain on the property.

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Growing commercial law firm makes small move to bigger Tysons office

By Angela Woolsey

Published December 15, 2022 at 11:45AM

The office building at 1676 International Drive in Tysons (courtesy Brandywine Realty Trust)

A Richmond-based commercial law firm that dates back to the post-World War II era is inching closer to Tysons Galleria.

Citing a need for more space to accommodate its growth, Hirschler officially moved its Tysons office into a 12,200-square-foot suite at 1676 International Drive just before Thanksgiving, the company announced late last month.

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Fairfax County considers turning vacant commercial space into emergency homeless shelters

By Vernon Miles

Published December 1, 2022 at 11:45AM | Updated March 24, 2023 at 2:42PM

Closed sign (via Tim Mossholder/Unsplash)

With a high office and commercial vacancy rate and over 1,000 locals experiencing homelessness, Fairfax County is considering a zoning change that could use one problem to help solve the other.

The proposal would allow unused commercial spaces, including office and hotel space, to be used as emergency shelters for those experiencing homelessness.