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Vienna Town Council clings to hope for office development, rejects townhouse alternative

Published October 24, 2022 at 1:30PM

Map of 901 Follin Lane, where EYA proposed a townhouse development (image via EYA)

Developer EYA came to the Vienna Town Council with a plan to turn a long-vacant commercial into a new set of townhomes, but the Town Council warned that it isn’t willing to give up on office and commercial development just yet.

Tysons Edge, an office building at 901 Follin Lane, has gone through attempts to lease since 2013 and has been vacant since 2015. The 97,000 square foot office building has had $2 million worth of renovations poured into the building with little progress in attracting a new occupant.

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Roughly 25,000 voters receive incorrect voting information due to ‘printing issue’

By Fatimah Waseem

Published October 21, 2022 at 1:15PM

A state elections mailer sent to around 25,000 voters incorrectly directed Town of Herndon, Vienna and Clifton voters to the wrong polling locations.

The letter directs Town of Herndon residents should vote at a new location nearly thirty minutes away from the town: the Stacey C. Sherwood Community Center in the City of Fairfax.

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Coco’s Sodas + Sweets, opening today, introduces the ‘dirty soda’ to Vienna

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 21, 2022 at 10:15AM

Coco's Sodas + Sweets specializes in dirty sodas, which blend soft drinks with syrup, cream and other flavors (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Coco’s Sodas + Sweets is ready at last to give Vienna its first taste of “dirty sodas” — flavor-spiked soft drinks that originated as a coffee substitute in Mormon-heavy Utah.

The soda shop officially opened today (Friday) in The Village Green shopping center at 513 Maple Avenue West, Suite 110. Details about a grand opening on Oct. 28 will be shared on the business’ Instagram and Facebook pages, co-owner Ben Cichelli told FFXnow.

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Construction ‘practically’ finished on Vienna Market development

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 20, 2022 at 1:30PM

Vienna Market brings townhouses and retail space to Maple Avenue (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

After a noisy couple of years, construction is wrapping up on the Vienna Market development that now looms over Maple Avenue.

Replacing the former Marco Polo restaurant at 245 Maple Avenue West, the complex consists of 44 condominium townhomes and 8,200 square feet of ground-floor retail space. It broke ground in mid-2019 after a lengthy planning and design process.

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Scuba company takes over Vienna dive shop, plans to build new swim center

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 20, 2022 at 9:30AM

A rendering of Diventures' planned swim and scuba center (courtesy Diventures)

A Vienna dive shop has been subsumed into Diventures, a swimming and scuba franchise from Nebraska that hopes to build a new aquatics facility to serve the D.C. area.

The company announced yesterday (Wednesday) that it has expanded into Virginia with the acquisition of the local scuba shop Nautilus Aquatics, which has two locations in Vienna (510 Mill Street NE) and Sterling (1007A Ruitan Circle).

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Madeleine Proust bakery closes after just one year in Vienna

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 19, 2022 at 11:00AM

The bakery Madeleine Proust has permanently closed in Vienna (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Another local French bakery has closed its doors for good, leaving the Tysons area with dwindling options for macrons, cookies and other Parisian desserts.

Madeleine Proust shuttered on Oct. 1, only about a year after it first opened in Vienna’s Wolftrappe Shops at 448 Maple Ave East. The business didn’t provide an explanation for the closure but confirmed it would no longer be operating in any capacity after that date.

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Vienna hopes to unearth new history with proposed archaeological dig at Freeman Store

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 18, 2022 at 11:00AM

The Freeman Store and Museum in Vienna (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

The Town of Vienna could have a historical gold mine waiting to be found in old-timey toilets underneath the grounds of its Freeman Store and Museum (131 Church Street NE).

Historic Vienna Inc., the nonprofit that has operated the store since 1976, plans to fund an archaeological dig of the property after a survey identified several potential areas of interest, including two sites that might have the remains of either wells or outhouses.

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Halloween creeps up on Tysons early with mall trick-or-treating

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 14, 2022 at 2:15PM

Tysons Corner Center (file photo)

Halloween is showing up on Tysons Corner Center’s doorstep a couple weeks early this year.

The mall’s Fall Festival this weekend will include a full Halloween experience, with trick-or-treating, pumpkin carving, and other activities.

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JUST IN: Gas leaks reported in Vienna and Burke after workers hit pipes

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 11, 2022 at 12:45PM | Updated October 11, 2022 at 5:45PM

Workers hit a gas line in the 100 block of Tapawingo Road in Vienna for gas leak (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Updated at 5:45 p.m. — The gas leak in Vienna was stopped around 1:30 p.m., the county fire department said. The cutoff caused an outage for seven customers, who are now in the process of being reconnected, according to Washington Gas.

Earlier: Fairfax County firefighters are currently responding to two separate gas leaks in residential neighborhoods, one in the Town of Vienna and another in Burke.

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Police: Vienna resident assaulted after confronting men leaving his apartment

By Vernon Miles

Published October 3, 2022 at 11:45AM

Recent violent incidents around Vienna included a confrontation between a man and two others leaving his apartment and a battle between a local resident and an Amazon delivery truck.

The weekly Vienna Police Highlights offers a look at the calls for police around town, including notes on arrests and other incidents.