The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved a comprehensive plan amendment last Tuesday, Sept. 15 that could lead to nearly 3,000 new multifamily units near the Dunn Loring Metro station in Merrifield.
The vote was another procedural step forward in allowing Malkin Properties to replace its existing 706-unit Merrifield at Dunn Loring Station apartment complex with up to 2,975 units located in high-rise and mid-rise buildings.
Three people died Sunday afternoon (Sept. 6) after their SUV crashed into a truck carrying oxygen tanks on I-66 in Dunn Loring.
At around 4:10 p.m., the driver of a Honda Pilot struck the rear of a truck transporting oxygen tanks that was stopped in the westbound express lanes at mile marker 64.3 near the I-495 interchange, according to the Virginia State Police.
After an unanticipated delay, Great Falls Lodge Bar and Grill is finally opening its doors.
Previously expected to open earlier this summer, the restaurant is now set for a soft launch at 9835 Georgetown Pike in Great Falls Center this coming Monday, Sept. 7, according to owner and chef Neel Kamal.
The Fairfax County Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval at its July 22 meeting of a proposal that could more than quadruple the number of residential units at the Merrifield at Dunn Loring Station Apartments.
County staff’s comprehensive plan amendment would pave the way for Malkin Properties — which has owned the 35-acre garden-apartment complex at 8130 Prescott Drive since its construction in the late 1960s — to replace the existing 706 units in phases with up to 2,975 apartments in high-rise and mid-rise buildings near the Dunn Loring Metro station.
More than 25,000 homes and businesses are without power in Fairfax County after severe storms ripped through the region.
The storms arrived amid the evening commute and came in two waves, prompting multiple Severe Thunderstorm Warnings from the National Weather Service. As of publication time the second wave is starting to exit the county to the east.
An electric bicycle rider was critically injured in a crash on Cedar Lane in Dunn Loring earlier this afternoon (Thursday).
Fairfax County police and fire units were dispatched to Cedar Lane at Electric Avenue at around 3:35 p.m. for a crash involving a cyclist and a vehicle, according to scanner traffic.
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.
Fairfax County is seeking public input on 14 proposed new Capital Bikeshare stations.
Officials with the Fairfax County Department of Transportation held a virtual information session on Wednesday (April 8) to discuss a planned expansion of the system throughout the I-66 corridor.
More than three years after the departure of Blackfinn Ameripub, a new restaurant appears to be filling the vacancy near the Dunn Loring Metro station.
The Vienna Lodge Bar & Grill will soon occupy the space on the ground floor of the Avalon Dunn Loring apartments at 2750 Gallows Road, according to signage now adorning the windows of the storefront.
A driver who managed to crash onto the Metro tracks from I-66 in Dunn Loring has been taken to a hospital.
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department units were dispatched around 11:24 a.m. today (Wednesday) for a crash off I-66 prior to the Cedar Lane bridge.
