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Navid Roshan-Afshar

Mar 12, 2015 
 

2015 Scheduled Repaving Means Road Diets Coming To North Tysons

It’s been a long and frustrating wait for the lofty goals of a new Tysons to come to fruition, but in 2015 the most populated part of Tysons might start seeing real substantial changes for pedestrian and bike improvements. 2015 is a scheduled repaving year for most of Tysons which provides FCDOT (with guidance from […]

Mar 10, 2015 
 

Hoar Construction Breaks Ground At Commons of McLean

A little over one year after LCOR Commons of McLean received zoning approval for their redevelopment of several hundred low rise apartment buildings into over 2,000 mid-rise and high-rise apartment units, ground has broken for the first phase. The initial development of 319 apartment units is being undertaken by Hoar Construction, for Building 1 of […]

Mar 08, 2015 

Mar 05, 2015 
 

Tysons Under-developed Property of the Month

With so many plans approved and in the pipeline in Tysons one might think that all the usable space in Tysons, atleast that which is close to metro, is already in the process of redevelopment. In reality Tysons is a very large land area, and even with all of the development proposals there are plenty […]

Mar 03, 2015 
 

Future Tysons: Video Showing Current and Planned Greensboro

With so much development planned and underway in Tysons it can be difficult to imagine what the changes will mean to individual neighborhoods. Many question whether the new development will look like more of the same in town or if it will help create a more urban network of streets and buildings. In my continued […]

Mar 01, 2015 
 

Elan Tysons West Apartment Already Towers Above Nearby Buildings

Elan Tysons West, a 34 story residential apartment being built near Spring Hill metro station, is beginning to “tower” over  the adjacent 2-story industrial buildings that are typical of the Tyco Road area. We noted the tower crane had been assembled a couple months ago. The building is now at two-stories, largely due to the […]

Feb 25, 2015 
 

Tysons Corner Metro Station Bike Lockers Unnecessarily Split

Let’s not look a gift horse in the mouth, getting bike infrastructure of any kind in Tysons is novel, and understandably an evolving study, but this week I couldn’t help but notice the deficiency of the current layout of bike lockers at the Silver Line’s Tysons Corner station. The station, like others in Tysons, has […]

Feb 16, 2015 
 

Westpark Sidewalk Gap Doesn’t Need New Right of Way

For years now residents of North Tysons have had to mitigate a lingering sidewalk gap that doesn’t appear to be going away. Along the north side of Westpark Drive near the intersection of International Drive a steep slope and forested area has kept FCDOT from being able to connect the neighborhood of Park Crest to […]

Feb 11, 2015 
 

Demolition of Best Western on Westpark Imminent

When the Board of Supervisors approved the Westpark Plaza rezoning late last year a lot of people were happy that days were numbered at the aging, and abandoned, Best Western at the corner of Leesburg Pike. The hotel has been abandoned for nearly a year, which always leads to complications from poor maintenance to vagrants. […]

Feb 08, 2015 
 

Tysons East Growing Quickly: Future Skyline

Washington Business Journal reported this week that yet another development project, the first building of LCOR’s Commons of McLean is set for groundbreaking. The building would join four other mid and high rise towers currently under construction, including two at the Cityline Garfield parcel, MITRE Building 4, and Capital One headquarters. To date the growth […]