Category: Development

We had previously written a post on how Tysons East is going to be the most dramatically changed district in Tysons as can be seen by the map of projects currently proposed for rezoning. Maps show how much land area is planned to be overhauled, but it doesn’t capture the drastic nature of that change. […]

You may have seen the article by the Washington Post comparing the Reston office market to Tysons. There was some interesting information provided, including the fact that new urbanist planning designs (those with human scale streets and mixed land use) yield better return for land developers in the form of higher lease rates. It is […]

Earlier this summer Cityline and JLB took a major step forward on their Garfield Parcel project at the corner of Anderson Road and Dolley Madison Boulevard by securing the site perimeter and beginning earthwork operations. The 425 unit apartment building has been a significant earthwork undertaking, with three levels of below ground parking, getting to […]

VDOT continues to push for a widening of Route 123, not in Vienna where it’s 4 lanes, not in McLean where it’s 4 lanes, but here in Tysons where the 6 lanes that currently exist don’t even have any congestion on them. Any traffic engineer who has ever been to Tysons (I doubt any of […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]