By Brian Trompeter
Candidates seeking the Dranesville District seat on the Fairfax County School Board gave distinctly different views Oct. 11 at a McLean Citizens Association forum.
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By Brian Trompeter
Fairfax County’s eight economic revitalization districts and areas in coming years will be spruced up and enlivened by murals created under a newly approved pilot program.
Autumnal cooling occurred across the local region’s homes market for the week ending Oct. 15.
That’s according to Bright MLS, which reported that the 1,112 new listings represented a decline of 9.4 percent from a week before and were down 14.4 percent from a year ago.
Sales were down year-over-year owing to affordability and availability issues across Fairfax County, but those homes that did sell in September moved quickly from listing to ratified contract, according to new data.
Despite the briskness, the sluggish market resulted in a 20-percent year-to-year drop in overall market volume for the month.
It may not be an indication that a bubble is about to pop, but for the first time in six months, the average sales price of single-family homes across Fairfax County fell below $1 million in September.
The dropoff between August and September was 11 percent, with the average sales price of the 385 single-family homes going to closing last month standing at $993,138. In August, the average had been an all-time high of $1,122,304.
By Brian Trompeter
The future Tysons Community Center received some vital backing Oct. 10 when the Board of Supervisors authorized the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA) to sell up to $43 million worth of revenue bonds to support construction of the facility and part of its parking costs.
By Brian Trompeter
A proposed Mars Inc. headquarters expansion and redevelopment in central McLean received a unanimous positive recommendation to the Board of Supervisors from the Fairfax County Planning Commission following an Oct. 11 public hearing.
By Brian Trompeter
A special grand jury on Oct. 12 indicted a former Fairfax County police officer on charges of involuntary manslaughter and reckless discharge of a weapon in connection with the Feb. 22 shooting death of an unarmed shoplifting suspect outside Tysons Corner Center.
By Brian Trompeter
Twenty local notables who have contributed to the community for years received their due Oct. 3 as Fairfax County supervisors honored them as Lords and Ladies Fairfax.
By Brian Trompeter
With one additional vote that hadn’t been there a week earlier, the Vienna Town Council narrowly agreed Oct. 2 to hold an 23 public hearing on a proposed tree-canopy ordinance.