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Navid Roshan-Afshar

Sep 03, 2014 
 

423 Bus Routing Shows Why Ridership Has Dropped

Transportation planning is not an easy thing to do. Politics, economics, physical reality, and a dozen other factors can take infrastructure that looks good on paper and render it unfeasible and at times diluted beyond recognition. Case in point, the 423 bus, one of three new circulators that are meant to serve the growing population […]

Aug 27, 2014 
 

7915 Jones Branch Rezoning Redevelops Office to Residential

About 6 months ago Washington Business Journal ran a story about Kettler’s newest project within Tysons, 7915 Jones Branch Drive; a strip of Tysons known best for being home to two Fortune 500 headquarters. Not much was known at that time other than a few illustrative renderings and general size and height of the building, […]

Aug 25, 2014 
 

Lerner 1775 Tysons Boulevard Improving Neighborhood Massing

For nearly a decade the Tysons II property has been developed asymmetrically, focusing entirely on the west side of Tysons Boulevard. After several years of delay, Lerner Enterprises announced earlier this year that they would begin vertical construction of their newest addition, 1775 Tysons Boulevard. The building itself is similar to prior projects in the […]

Aug 22, 2014 
 

Month 2 of Parkageddon

Parkageddon Tysons
It’s time to once again return to the misery that has befallen our little city of Tysons, #parkageddon. For those of you unfamiliar Parkageddon involves the onslaught of the driving hordes searching for hours in town for a parking space because none was provided for the Silver Line metro. Of course, there were 700 spaces […]
Parkageddon Tysons

Aug 20, 2014 
 

Meridian’s Greensboro Place Rezoning Deferred Again

After a one month hiatus on public meetings, the new schedule for the planning commission was posted for September this week. It came as a big surprise that the Greensboro Place project, Meridian’s rezoning at the SAIC headquarters in Tysons, has been deferred again to a new date… this time in Spring of 2015. This […]

Aug 18, 2014 
 

Tysons East To See The Greatest Transformation From Redevelopment

The development plans that are in the pipeline in Tysons propose radical changes to the area, removal of surface parking lots, construction of high rises, street level retail, and human scale infrastructure but no neighborhood of Tysons will see as great of a change as Tysons East. The district of Tysons East, one of the […]

Aug 14, 2014 
 

Nouvelle at Arbor Row Already Towering Over The Neighborhood

Nouvelle Tysons
At 12-floors above ground, the new Nouvelle by Hanover on Westpark Drive is already the tallest building its neighborhood in Tysons, tucked between abandoned two story offices and the under renovation 7900 Westpark Drive. The building is one that has sparked our interest for a long time, being the first new building in Tysons to […]
Nouvelle Tysons

Aug 13, 2014 
 

Plaza At One Tysons Metro Access Pending Construction Completion

We’ve been asked a few times about the second exit from the mezzanine level of the Tysons Corner metro station which is currently chained and gated. There is some confusion about where that will eventually lead, whether it will be public, and if it will help people avoid crossing the road below to get to the […]

Aug 04, 2014 
 

Best Western Coming Down Best Westpark Going Up

Best Western Rezoning
You might have noticed the Best Western on the corner of Westpark and Leesburg Pike has been abandoned and set for demolition if you’ve passed by the neighborhood recently. The reason is Dittmar’s ambitious plans to create a mixed use community and new hotel site with access to Greensboro and Springhill Metro stations. While the […]
Best Western Rezoning

Jul 31, 2014 
 

Week 1 of Parkageddon

Parkageddon Tysons
As an ongoing effort to document and archive the horror that has befallen our town of Tysons, Parkageddon, we are starting a weekly discussion on how parking is going around town. So far there have been a couple of anecdotal disturbances in neighborhoods (can count them on one hand) of people taking the cheap way […]
Parkageddon Tysons