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Piazza at Tysons development embraced as potential Route 7 game-changer

Published October 28, 2025 at 9:15AM | Updated October 28, 2025 at 10:18AM

A rendering of The Cube and Piazza Lawn in Piazza at Tysons from Spring Hill Road (via WDG Architecture)

A mixed-use development that could transform a corner of Tysons West sailed through the Fairfax County Planning Commission last week after more than five years of review.

All of the commissioners present for the Oct. 22 public hearing recommended that the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approve a conceptual development plan for the Piazza at Tysons, which would replace a gas station and the Tysons 3 shopping center near the Spring Hill Metro station with housing, office, over 2 acres of park space and, potentially, a public arts and culture center.

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JUST IN: Man charged with soliciting sex from teen at Spring Hill Metro station

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 4, 2024 at 8:15PM

The entrance to the Spring Hill Metro station in Tysons (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A Maryland man was arrested over the weekend after allegedly soliciting sex from a 15-year-old he met at the Spring Hill Metro station in Tysons.

The teen’s parents reported to the police on Friday (Nov. 1) that a man had solicited their child first in person and then in subsequent communications in October, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

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Solar panels activated atop Spring Hill Rec Center as energy project nears finish

By Angela Woolsey

Published April 25, 2024 at 2:30PM

The Spring Hill Rec Center now has an active rooftop solar panel array (courtesy Fairfax County Park Authority)

The Spring Hill Rec Center in McLean is now being partly powered by the sun.

The Fairfax County Park Authority announced today (Thursday) that it has turned on a new, 307-kilowatt solar panel array on the roofs of the recreation center’s gym and indoor swimming pool at 1239 Spring Hill Road.

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NEW: Fairfax County casino push targets abandoned Tysons auto dealership

By Angela Woolsey

Published January 18, 2024 at 10:15AM

The former Aston Martin and Bentley dealership in Tysons has been proposed as a future casino site (via Google Maps)

The proposal to permit a casino in Fairfax County has honed in on one specific site: a former Aston Martin and Bentley dealership in Tysons.

Site criteria for the potential gaming establishment emerged yesterday (Wednesday), when state Sen. Dave Marsden’s long-awaited/dreaded bill was officially published online, just two days before the Virginia General Assembly’s filing deadline for the 2024 session.

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Affordable housing development breaks ground near Spring Hill Metro station

By Angela Woolsey

Published December 20, 2023 at 9:30AM

The Exchange at Spring Hill Station, an affordable housing project, broke ground in Tysons (courtesy Fairfax County Government)

Construction has begun on a development that promises to bring hundreds of affordable housing units to Tysons.

Officials with Fairfax County, nonprofit developer Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing (APAH) and other partners broke ground yesterday (Tuesday) on the Dominion Square project, which has been newly renamed The Exchange at Spring Hill Station.

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High-rise apartment building approved for office complex near Spring Hill Metro

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 1, 2023 at 1:30PM

The proposed City House residential high-rise from across Spring Hill Road in Tysons (via DCS Design/Fairfax County)

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has agreed to let a planned office building near the Spring Hill Metro station become an apartment high-rise instead.

At a public hearing on July 25, the board unanimously approved American Real Estate Partners’ City House proposal, a move that both the county and developer hope will catalyze change in a largely dormant part of Tysons.

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McLean’s Spring Hill Rec Center will get solar panels, energy upgrades

By Angela Woolsey

Published July 25, 2023 at 1:30PM

A man on a bench outside the Spring Hill Rec Center in McLean (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Fairfax County’s efforts to become more energy efficient will get a power boost this week, as work begins on improvements at McLean’s Spring Hill Rec Center.

Set to break ground at 2 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday), the project will add the recreation center at 1239 Spring Hill Road to a growing list of county facilities supported by solar panels. Other planned changes include pool dehumidification unit replacements, LED lighting upgrades, improved building automation systems and a new geothermal HVAC system.

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Tysons auto dealerships to close permanently, maybe setting stage for redevelopment

By Angela Woolsey

Published July 19, 2023 at 11:00AM | Updated July 19, 2023 at 7:18PM

The Priority Mazda and Nissan and Sheehy Infiniti dealerships in Tysons (via Google Maps)

(Updated at 7:10 p.m.) Permanent closures are coming for three auto dealerships near the Spring Hill Metro station in Tysons.

The Priority Nissan and Mazda shops, which share a building at 8525 Leesburg Pike, will close at the end of this month with either July 31 or Aug. 1 as their final day of business, a customer service representative told FFXnow.

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Developer hopes to energize Spring Hill Metro area by swapping office for housing

By Angela Woolsey

Published July 17, 2023 at 1:30PM

The proposed City House residential high-rise from across Spring Hill Road in Tysons (via DCS Design/Fairfax County)

While new buildings continue to transform the Tysons skyline further east, the Spring Hill Metro station area has yet to see the same frenzy of development.

Developer American Real Estate Partners hopes to change that with City House, pitching the high-rise apartments to the Fairfax County Planning Commission last week as a way to revitalize its Highline at Greensboro District office complex at 8401 Greensboro Drive.

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Dominion Energy to begin prep work on undergrounding Tysons power line

By Angela Woolsey

Published April 26, 2023 at 1:30PM | Updated April 27, 2023 at 12:19AM

Tysons to Spring Hill transmission line construction phases (via Dominion Energy)

(Updated at 12:15 a.m. on 4/27/2023) Preliminary construction activities will kick into gear this weekend on a long-gestating project to move part of an electric transmission line underground in the Spring Hill area of Tysons.

Starting this Friday (April 28) evening, Dominion Energy will close the Vesper Trail from Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) to Vesper Street so its crews can install a manhole needed for the project, spokesperson Peggy Fox said. The trail closure will last until Tuesday (May 2).