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While McLean awaits the arrival of a permanent downtown arts center, residents will be treated to a temporary showcase of local artists at the Chesterbrook Shopping Center.

The McLean Art Gallery is set to open behind Starbucks at 6224B Old Dominion Drive on Sept. 17, the McLean Art Society announced Monday (Sept. 8).


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The new Sassanova in McLean’s Chesterbrook Shopping Center is a milestone in more ways than one.

Officially opened today (Thursday), the fashion boutique at 6224G Old Dominion Drive represents the Maryland company’s first expansion into Virginia, and at 2,262 square feet, it’s the largest location yet.


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A popular, Asian-focused food hall and other businesses in Annandale’s Eastgate Shopping Center will be required to close or relocate by the end of this summer.

According to Annandale Today, property owner Brian Kim has given The Block, Kimen Ramen & Izakaya and several other retail tenants until Aug. 30 to vacate the strip mall, which is slated for partial demolition to make way for an apartment building.


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Three people have been arrested and charged with allegedly stealing thousands of dollars in candles from businesses at shopping centers in Kingstowne, Greenbriar and Springfield.

The Fairfax County Police Department says the “organized crew” of D.C. residents was behind 16 different thefts that occurred in February through May. The value of the candles stolen in each case ranged from $600 to over $4,300.


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A Fairfax man has been arrested for groping and assaulting multiple women at different shopping centers in the Fair Oaks area earlier this week, police say.

Officers responded first to Fair Oaks Mall (11700 Fair Oaks Mall) at 5:04 p.m. on Wednesday (May 28) after two women reported that a man had “approached and touched them inappropriately,” according to the Fairfax County Police Department.


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Fairfax County police aim to export successes they’ve had fighting retail theft in Tysons to other corridors across the county.

Despite targeted efforts, “shoplifting remains our Achilles’ heel,” Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis told the Board of Supervisors during a Safety and Security Committee meeting last week.


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A longtime tenant of the Shops at Fair Lakes plans to relocate this summer, though it won’t be going very far.

Paisano’s Pizza, which opened its very first location in the shopping center nearly 30 years ago, will be moving less than a mile away in the coming months, a representative for the shopping center told FFXnow.


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Old Dominion Drive was blocked for hours after an SUV crashed into a power pole and caught fire in McLean this afternoon (Thursday).

Police and firefighters responded to the Chesterbrook Shopping Center around 5 p.m. for the crash, which happened near the Starbucks store and brought down power lines, according to scanner traffic.


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The national stir-fry and salad chain honeygrow is continuing to nurture its Northern Virginia presence.

Honeygrow opened its fifth restaurant in the region today (Friday) at Old Keene Mill Shopping Center in West Springfield. Located at 8426 Old Keene Mill Road, the 2,500-square-foot space can be found on the Planet Fitness side of the strip mall, in between Massage Envy and Visionworks.


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A shopping center in the Kings Park West neighborhood is up for a makeover.

Nearly 50 years after it was first constructed, Twinbrooke Shopping Center (9525 Braddock Road) will kick off a “transformation” later this month to modernize more than two dozen storefronts, property manager Federal Realty announced.


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