JBG Smith unveils Crystal City plans; bagel needs filled in Del Ray; sports betting to DC; and more!
- Tim Tassa
- Oct 4, 2019
- 4 min read
It's challenging to keep up with local news, particularly the items that may impact your life, your commute, or your community. That's why each week we compile a few interesting developments happening in the area.
"Earlier this week, JBG SMITH announced plans for additional office and residential developments in Arlington. Here's what they have planned:"
A new apartment complex is scheduled to open in the West End later this year, with a Harris Teeter and a Silver Diner location coming down the road. Array at West Alex is a mixed-use development at 3445 Berkeley Street — the very northwest tip of the city at the intersection of N. Beauregard Street and King Street, near the Fairlington neighborhood.
Washington Business Journal: Hekemian pitches mixed-use for Alexandria's Beauregard corridor
"The New Jersey-based developer filed concept plans for the project, dubbed “Upland Park,” last month for a roughly 7-acre site at the intersection of North Beauregard Street and Seminary Road. Hekemian envisions a total of 400 apartments, 92 townhomes, 8,470 square feet of retail and a 170-room hotel on the property."
Washington Business Journal: Wawa unveils 40-store, $240M Northern Virginia vision
"Upon breaking ground on its latest project in Vienna Tuesday, the Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain officially unveiled its expansion plan for the area, which includes 40 new Northern Virginia stores in the next 15 years totaling $240 million."
"From plain bagels with cream cheese to sesame tahini with pomegranate molasses and za’atar, the new Bagel Uprising in Del Ray has something for every bagel lover. The new location at 2307A Mount Vernon Avenue is now open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends, though the website notes the restaurant could close early on weekends if it sells out of bagels."
"A new Italian restaurant from noted local restaurateur Fabio Trabocchi is planning to officially open its doors in Rosslyn on Saturday. Sfoglina, at 1100 Wilson Blvd, will open in a 4,500 square foot space that includes 130 indoor seats, a “Mozzarella Bar,” and a “glass enclosed pasta room, where guests can watch the fresh pastas being handmade daily.” It’s the largest of what will be three Sfoglina Pasta House locations; the other two are in D.C."
Washington Business Journal: Alexandria could force this asphalt plant to shut down, to ease the path for new development. Its owners want to stay
City staff, in a report prepared in advance of the Alexandria Planning Commission’s Oct. 3 meeting, is recommending the closure of the Virginia Paving plant on Courtney Avenue, immediately north of the Van Dorn Metro station. The 11-acre plant’s existing special use permit provides a sunset provision, under which the city could force the facility to shut down if City Council determines it is no longer consistent with the parameters of the Eisenhower West Small Area Plan, a long-range land use guide for the area.
"Transportation officials are seeking public input of a study of Virginia’s 179 miles of the Interstate 95 corridor. The Commonwealth Transportation Board has initiated a study to develop a plan to identify key problem areas along the corridor, between the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Alexandria and the North Carolina border."
The Washington Post: The ’50s suburban dream lives on in Northern Virginia’s Fort Hunt
"Driving down Fort Hunt Road in Alexandria, the center of the Fort Hunt neighborhood, you are swept back to an idyllic time of post-World War II suburbia, where split levels and kids on bikes ruled the streets and Little League games dominated Saturday activities."
"Sports betting is getting closer to reality at D.C.’s Capital One Arena. Monumental Sports & Entertainment — which owns the Capital One Arena and D.C.’s Capitals, Wizards and Mystics — is partnering with internationally-known betting and gaming company William Hill U.S. to create the first sportsbook at a professional sports venue in the country."
Washington Business Journal: Here's how much Virginia Tech’s first Alexandria campus building is expected to cost
"Virginia Tech is looking to start building the first part of its $1 billion innovation campus — a 300,000-square-foot academic building — by August 2021. The demand for more tech-savvy graduates requires "rapid execution of this project," the university wrote in documents soliciting a construction manager at-risk. The school expects construction to be completed by February 2024, according to an accelerated timeline Virginia Tech issued in July."
Alexandria Living Magazine: New Details Revealed for Riverfront Cafe, The Mill
"More details have recently been unveiled about the cafe and market going in at the 10 Duke Street warehouse building."
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