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Navid Roshan-Afshar

Oct 06, 2014 
 

VITA Tower Nearly Complete

The cranes had come down last month but work continues on Tysons current tallest building VITA Apartments at One Tysons. The residential tower that is part of the overall Tysons Corner Center rezoning project has quickly become a dominant figure on the skyline on approach from either Route 7 or Route 123. The architecture of […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Oct 01, 2014 
 

Fall Construction Updates From MITRE Building 4

The last time we visited the new office building under construction within MITRE’s growing Tysons campus the future 14-story structure wasn’t much more than an excavated pit for the underground parking garage. The project is part of the Scotts Run Station rezoning by Cityline, but unlike other office buildings in Northern Virginia being built speculatively, […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Sep 22, 2014 
 

Car Free Day in Tysons

It’s car free day around the country, a day each year when some of us try to avoid using personal automobiles and instead navigate primarily vehicle based road designs created by our favorite people at the local DOT. For those of us in Tysons, it can be a harrowing task so we thought we’d open […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
 
 

Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ Festival a Success

The line at Porkus Maximus was about as much proof as you needed that combining good drinks with spit fired and smoked barbecue is going to be popular, especially when there’s metro access running (finally). Saturday was the first annual BB.BBQ Fest for Tysons, an event that has been hosted in other parts of our […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Sep 16, 2014 
 

Food Trucks Facing Tickets In Tysons Again

When Fairfax County announced they would be pursuing sensible regulations to allow food truck operation in Tysons last year, it seemed like a brewing problem between local police and permit carrying food truck vendors was avoided. The issue was stirred up again yesterday as several food trucks were told to move on by Fairfax County […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Sep 15, 2014 
 

North Tysons Rec Fields Taking Shape

Residents in the Park Crest neighborhood may have noticed some significant earthwork operations occurring along a quiet part of Jones Branch Drive the past couple months in the vicinity of the Kaiser Permanent offices. Some might be surprised to hear it’s not a high rise tower going up, but instead a recreational field being constructed […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Sep 12, 2014 
 

Another New Rezoning For McLean Station

It looks like a new wave of rezonings are coming into the County from new sources that weren’t involved with the original comprehensive plan process. Earlier this month the AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust filed a new rezoning, The Highland District, for the region around Old Meadow Road, currently an area of low density warehouse and […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Sep 10, 2014 
 

Hit Or Miss Day For Tysons Planning Future

Yesterday WUSA9 and WAMU885 ran stories about the glut of car parking provided at the McLean station, an issue that the Board of Supervisors has spent inordinate amounts of time trying to negotiate with land owners, at times giving up other bargaining chips to do so. The lot is empty, as we have been reporting, […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Sep 08, 2014 
 

Silver Line Music & Food Truck Festival This Saturday

Unlike three months ago, when local leaders envisioned a food and wine festival that would be served by metro access, the upcoming Silver Line Music and Food Truck Festival will actually have an operating metro line (well atleast with 15 minute headways). The festival will be held at the same spot as the Food & […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Sep 04, 2014 
 

Greystar Quietly Begins Construction on Second Tysons High Rise

It’s deja vu all over again. It seems like just yesterday Greystar broke ground on the first post-comprehensive plan high rise building in Tysons, Ascent. Thirty months later, and it seems Greystar’s appetite for fanfare remains low, despite their ambitious plans in town. Just like their ground breaking at Ascent, their newest project 1521 Celebration […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar