Around the corner today;
If you haven’t heard, the ground breaking for the Tysons Walmart is today. We’ll see what happens now that it opens. Given the opposition to the project, the 9th gate to hell is about to break open releasing some sort of demonic traffic jam. More likely, any traffic on weekends and off rush hours, when most people shop, will be easily absorbed by the vast Route 7 road section which carries over 50,000 people daily out of Tysons. Although I am sure Walmart and Tysons West would be dancing in the future grid of streets if 50,000 people came through Walmart on a daily basis, I think it is safe to assume the number of customers will be far less.
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Dyncorp International, a government contractor and global services provider, previously headquartered in Falls Church will be consolidating several offices disbursed around Fairfax County into a renovated space in Tysons along Route 123.
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Meridian, purchasers of SAICs corporate campus which is currently filing for rezoning approval in Tysons, has attained $105 Million in debt financing which assures completion of the sale. It was also interesting that executive Vice President Bruce Lane noted “Tysons Corner is the downtown of Northern Virginia and one of the most coveted areas in the country… This is an incredible place to be a part of.”
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Speaking of SAIC, Washington Business Journal wrote today about the proposed split of SAIC to divide their commercial sector into a new company called Leidos. Fairfax officials had to have been more than a bit nervous that SAIC’s new division might pack up shop and move to one of those tax haven states. It looks like that has been avoided for the foreseeable future now that Leidos has announced their new headquarters to be in Reston Town Center.