Inova Health System’s CEO used a recent roundtable discussion with the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and business leaders to connect his organization’s growth to broader quality of life across the region.
Health care is “the job engine and in many ways economic engine” of Northern Virginia, Dr. J. Stephen Jones said at yesterday’s meeting of the county’s Council for Economic Opportunity.
With just over three months to go, a crew of 600 workers is shifting into round-the-clock mode to ensure Dulles International Airport’s $700 million Concourse E is ready on time.
“These guys are working hard to get this done,” Airport Manager Richard Golinowski said during a Wednesday (June 10) media event spotlighting progress on the 14-gate facility to be used by United Airlines.
Prospective residents can now apply to be considered for one of the affordable apartments currently under construction near the Spring Hill Metro station in Tysons.
The Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority (FCRHA) began accepting waitlist applications at 8 a.m. today (Monday) for a limited number of units in The Exchange at Spring Hill Station reserved for its Project-Based Voucher program, which subsidizes rental costs for low-income households.
Construction is well underway on the first mixed-use development to emerge on the north side of the Herndon Metro station.
The Nell at 555 Apartments is on track to deliver 399 homes with over 14,000 square feet of private amenity space, approximately 5,000 square feet of retail and a parking garage in the next year, according to developer Fairfield Residential.
As the summer travel season arrives, Dulles International Airport and Reagan National Airport both face “some big challenges as well as big opportunities,” according to Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority President and CEO Jack Potter.
The greatest challenge at the moment is the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, which has depressed traveler counts to that part of the world, Potter told MWAA’s board of directors at a May 20 meeting.
Land in Lorton that once served as a waste disposal site has been transformed into Fairfax County’s largest solar power project so far.
After about a year of construction, a completed 5-megawatt solar array now sits on 37 acres in a closed portion of the I-95 Landfill Complex at 9850 Furnace Road, the Fairfax County Department of Public Works and Environmental Services (DPWES) announced Wednesday (May 19).
Funding for Dulles International Airport’s new Concourse E is still coming together, even as construction inches closer to completion.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded $41.8 million in grant funding for the project, whose first phase will add 14 gates intended for United Airlines — the airport’s largest carrier — as well as a direct connection to the underground Aerotrain and various amenities.
Construction is progressing on a new townhome neighborhood near the Vantage Hill Condominiums in Reston.
Two buildings containing the first seven of 28 houses planned in The Fairland at Vantage Hill are on track to be completed this summer, likely in July or August, according to Craftmark Homes sales manager Lori Windsor.
The end is near for a school building that has stood in Dunn Loring since the Great Depression.
After operating for nearly nine decades, first as a school and then as an administrative hub, the Dunn Loring Administrative Center at 2334 Gallows Road will close in phases next month to make way for a new elementary school.
Construction is progressing at a promising clip on the McLean Project for the Arts’ (MPA) new Berlage Arts & Education Center.
The walls were still bare and some internal building systems, including lights and HVAC units, remained exposed when FFXnow took a preview tour on April 2, but it didn’t require a huge leap of imagination to picture the community destination anticipated by the nonprofit’s leaders.
