Fairfax County has updated its Chesapeake Bay Preservation Ordinance to reinforce requirements for developers along the Potomac River and its tributaries to protect older trees and guard against rising sea levels.
However, even as they voted unanimously yesterday (Tuesday) to amend regulations related to the ordinance, Fairfax County supervisors expressed some frustration with a lack of clarity in the guidance handed down by Virginia’s State Water Control Board (SWCB).
The Fairfax County Board of supervisors gave final approval yesterday (Tuesday) to a proposal that will bring a next-generation health-care facility to the West Falls Church area.
The project also will provide what county leaders say are much-needed traffic-safety improvements to the area of Arlington Blvd and Graham Road.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has approved a new mixed-use development near the Huntington Metro Station.
Located at the corner of Huntington Avenue and Metroview Parkway in the Mount Vernon District, the 85-foot-tall building will include up to 200 residential units and nearly 9,000 square feet of commercial space.
A nuanced effort to convert vacant office buildings into residential housing could be a net fiscal positive for the Fairfax County government.
That was the conclusion of an analysis presented to county leaders on Tuesday (Oct. 1). But it arrived with some caveats and some questions from members of the Board of Supervisors.
More residents are starting to move into The Mather Tysons with the recent completion of a second building.
The senior living community at 7929 Westpark Drive opened its 18-story south building in early September, adding another 114 independent living apartments to the 179 units delivered with the initial north building in March.
Planning is officially underway for the redevelopment of the office building at 575 Herndon Parkway.
The Town of Herndon’s Architectural Review Board will hold a work session tomorrow (Wednesday) to discuss plans to replace Dulles Overlook — a five-story office building formerly occupied by the consultant Booz Allen Hamilton — with a multi-family residential, retail and office building.
Inova has broken ground on its new Franconia-Springfield hospital, promising to bring full-service inpatient care to the area by 2028.
Marking the start of construction on the expansion of Inova’s HealthPlex campus, the groundbreaking at 6361 Walker Lane in Franconia was the first of two ceremonies that the health system held yesterday (Monday), along with one for the new Inova Alexandria Hospital at Landmark.
Amazon is looking to add an industrial park near Dulles International Airport to its network of Northern Virginia data centers.
Amazon Data Services has applied for air pollution control permits from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to allow data center facilities at 13860 and 13876 Redskin Drive in Renaissance Technology Park, a warehouse complex just east of Route 28 in the Floris area of Herndon.
A plan to redevelop Van Buren Office Park in Herndon into a mostly residential development could be the first test case of a soon-to-be established zoning district in the Town of Herndon.
Rooney Properties, owner of the office park at 250 Exchange Place, wants to replace the five existing office buildings and surface parking with a 400-unit multi-family residential building and garage as well as 66 townhouse units.
Space in Herndon’s Woodland Park neighborhood that was previously approved for office uses could flip instead into a mostly residential building.
The Texas-based developer Trammell Crow Residential has purchased the contract for a little over three acres of vacant land at the intersection of the Dulles Airport Access Road and Monroe Street so it can construct an apartment building with 320 units and nearly 118,000 square feet of storage space.
