Category: Development

Fairfax County recently announced they have completed a draft concept for the McLean Central Park, an existing wooded space with some play equipment, surrounding the McLean Library and Community Center. The park property sits between Old Dominion Drive and Elm Street on the North side of Chain Bridge Road. One might think the sleepy neighborhood […]

The area around the future Tysons metro station has certainly been transformed over the past year, and it looks like the changes are going to accelerate into 2014. Tysons Tower office building has already made an impact to the skyline, and is only a few more stories from completion, but recently activity on Macerich’s ambitious […]

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In development, changes to a neighborhood are measured in years, sometimes decades, and often require some patience for market conditions to generate the needed investments. This was the conundrum Fairfax County faced as it watched the construction of the Silver Line metro through Tysons far outpace the level of private construction occurring along the corridor. […]

Around the corner today; If you haven’t heard, the ground breaking for the Tysons Walmart is today. We’ll see what happens now that it opens. Given the opposition to the project, the 9th gate to hell is about to break open releasing some sort of demonic traffic jam. More likely, any traffic on weekends and […]

Yesterday, The Daily Progress published an article about the rarity of scandal in Virginia politics. “As far as I know, no governor has had to deal with a scandal similar to this one,” said Geoff Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “The only governor to ever resign the office […]

Growing up in the United Kingdom, when I first moved to Fairfax County I could not believe that FCPS students were off school from basically the middle of June until after Labor Day. That seems like a ridiculously long amount of time compared to the UK where the kids only have five to six weeks […]

While much of Tysons Corner is slated to become a new urban center, parts of the area will remain disconnected office parks for the foreseeable future. By planning for future demand and leveraging rising property values, Fairfax County can encourage more investment in the area and provide new public amenities, like improved transit. Last week, […]

Over at Bacon’s Rebellion, D.J. Rippert asks if the state’s economy is tanking. I believe he was trying to portray the following evidence as cause for concern: If you don’t know by now, predicting how economies move is super hard – and I’m not even going to pretend to know where the Virginia economy is […]

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