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Published April 4, 2022 at 9:45AM | Updated April 4, 2022 at 4:48PM

The hotel faces one year of opening delays (Image via handout).

(Updated at 4:48 p.m. to clarify construction is currently underway)

Like other construction projects in the area, Virginia’s first JW Marriott is facing some delays.

Proposal to turn Herndon Residence Inn into housing advances

By Fatimah Waseem

Published March 14, 2022 at 11:15AM

Residence Inn could shift into a multi-family housing project (Photo via handout/Town of Herndon).

The owners of Residence Inn in the Town of Herndon say the building’s layout and amenities no longer meet “top tier hotel brand standards.”

As a result, they hope the town will allow the hotel to shift into a multifamily residential project with half of the units dedicated for workforce housing.

Tysons West developer plans to turn former Sheraton hotel into housing

By Angela Woolsey

Published March 1, 2022 at 9:45AM

A conceptual rendering of developer JBG Smith's proposed repurposing of Sheraton Tysons Hotel as housing (via JBG Smith/Fairfax County)

After giving travelers shelter for more than three decades, the now-shuttered Sheraton Tysons Hotel (8661 Leesburg Pike) could soon become home to hundreds of permanent residents.

Property owner JBG Smith wants to turn the 22-story building and its parking garage into a 544-unit multifamily residential tower with up to 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, according to a rezoning application submitted to Fairfax County on Feb. 14.