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Category: Development

Jul 10, 2014 
 

Around the Corner

Spring Hill Elan Tysons
A small retailer is making the case that more people and transit access is hurting his business in this story at the Washington Post. No mention that his industry is one that has been seeing the effects of the digital age long before the Silver Line construction had begun. Is it true that small retailers […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Spring Hill Elan Tysons
Jul 07, 2014 
 

Arbor Row Tysons Stream Restoration Trail Installation

Stream Restoration and Trail Tysons
It might not look like much right now, but what used to be an overgrown and non-maintained stream valley on Westpark Drive in Tysons has undergone a significant transformation. Stream restoration crews associated with the Arbor Row project began implementing modifications to the stream valley earlier this year including: shallowing of the stream, removing debris, […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Stream Restoration and Trail Tysons
Jul 04, 2014 
 

Dunn Loring Metro Development

Dunn Loring Construction
Construction at the Dunn Loring Metro is rapidly progressing. Workers are swarming all over the 15 acre site to add to the already completed Avenir Place apartments. Once finished in 2015, the previous surface parking lot will be transformed into a walkable community composed of 628 residential units, 125,000 square feet of retail space – […]
by DSANoVA
Dunn Loring Construction
Jul 03, 2014 
 

Decking Over Route 123 Revisited

It’s been over two years since we brought up a concept to deck over Route 123 in the downtown of the downtown of Fairfax, the heart of Tysons. Whew, that was a long time ago, and hopefully this site has gotten a bit better since that time. Within that analysis it was shown that the […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Jul 01, 2014 
 

One Tysons Plaza Set To Open In July

One Tysons Public Space Plaza set to open July 2014
There is a lot happening over at Tysons Corner Center these days, and if you think the mall is popular now, prepare for more events and activities starting in July. After three years of construction, the concept and idea for One Tysons has come to fruition as developer Macerich and construction contractor Harvey Cleary knock […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
One Tysons Public Space Plaza set to open July 2014
Jun 24, 2014 
 

Garfield At Scotts Run Station Undergoing Earthwork

Scotts Run Station Garfield Parcel by Cityline
Earlier this year we watched demolition activity at 1575 Anderson Road take an aged office building and turn it into salvage materials. The initial activity at the site is the tip of the iceberg for the larger overall development known as Scotts Run Station, which will ultimately build several mixed use buildings along Route 123 […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Scotts Run Station Garfield Parcel by Cityline
Jun 19, 2014 
 

Future Tysons Development Update 2014

Future Tysons Development Rendering
At the beginning of this year we had a very popular post about what the future of Tysons will look like. Using our personally created sketch up library of Tysons buildings we mapped what was existing, what was built, what was under construction, and what was on the horizon and planned. Since that time we […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Future Tysons Development Rendering
Jun 13, 2014 
 

June Updates From Tysons Tower

Tysons Tower plaza construction June 2014
It was nearly two months ago we took a trip to Tysons Tower to tour the inside of the building and under construction plaza level that connects to the mall. Since that time the new neighborhood is starting to take shape into its soon to be final form. Trees have been installed at the street […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Tysons Tower plaza construction June 2014
Jun 10, 2014 
Jun 05, 2014 
 

Design Groups Present Metro Silver Line Trestle Art Concepts For Tysons

Tysons Trestle Design Charette
When the structural skeleton of the Silver Line Phase 1 was completed last year, it became pretty evident to those who didn’t realize it before that the concept for the mega-project lacked a bit of first floor imagination. Let’s point something out as a preface though; infrastructure projects and their contractors should not be in […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Tysons Trestle Design Charette