Thursday, March 7, 2013
Still talk of possibly opening a sub-police station in a mixed use building in Tysons Corner.
The 126 sworn officers and 40 to 50 non-sworn personnel have simply outgrown the McLean District Police Station. For now, they are waiting on the completion of their new $20.1 million home that is scheduled to open in September 2014. Capt. Dan Janickey, commander of the station that covers Merrifield, Dunn Loring, Falls Church, McLean, Tyson’s Corner, and Great Falls, said he can’t wait for the new station to open. “The roof has been leaking for years and we don’t have anywhere to park our cruisers,” Janickey said of the current station built in the 1970s. “It’s a good time to be at the McLean station.” Construction on the state-of-the-art station, which will include more meeting rooms and an updated security system on top of more space, …
Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority said 186 companies committed business to Fairfax County last year; more than 700 of the jobs were pledged to Tysons.
The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority brought more than 8,400 jobs to the county in 2012, it announced this week — the majority of them in the professional services and information technology sectors and many in the Tysons area. According to the FCEDA, Tysons will welcome almost 730 of the 8,400 jobs. IntelSat, leading provider in satellite services, was the year’s biggest announcement, moving almost 430 employees to its new headquarters in Tysons’ new Tysons Tower. The company is set to relocate in 2014. In addition to IntelSat's relocation, Kaiser Permanente will move 146 jobs with the opening of the Tysons Corner medical center. The announcement about these 8,400 jobs came on the same day as County Board of Supervisors Chair…
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Killing Option 3 saves Tysons woodlands, whose development has drawn opposition from residents over past several months.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors took steps Tuesday towards saving “one of the last standing green spaces” in a Tysons-area neighborhood. A proposed ramp connecting an extended Boone Boulevard to the Dulles Toll Road that would ostensibly pave over a resource protection area has had residents in an uproar for months. In September, neighborhood and civic associations combined to form the Tysons Forest Coalition, gathering almost 600 signatures in an effort to save “Tysons Corner’s last forest and stream.” The county’s department of transportation has been conducting a study of possibilities for ramp connections into Tysons, continuing the effort to turn the area into the county’s new urban downtown. In a motion Tuesday, Supervisor …
Friday, October 19, 2012
Reducing the need to travel by car — and available parking — are key to improving gridlock
As Tysons Corner continues to grow, the traffic will get better. Wait. What? It seems counterintuitive, but it is the truth, according to a panel of commercial developers who spoke to a group of Tysons Corner Regional Chamber of Commerce members at the Gannett headquarters in McLean earlier this week. Just look at the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor in Arlington, said Steve Cumbie, president of NV Commercial, the firm developing a site around what will eventually be the Tysons Central Route 7 station of the new Silver Line metro. Studies show in some areas of the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor, traffic is no worse than it was 25 years ago, Cumbie said. "There's a good reason. Arlington limited parking," he said. "I think the R-B corridor is a good …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Commercial developers showcased plans for new "live, work, play" communities in Tysons Corner.
When the first phase of the Silver Line Metro is up and running, the four new stations in Tysons Corner will become mini urban centers, a panel of developers explained to an auditorium of more than 100 at the Gannett headquarters in McLean on Wednesday morning. The panel discussion was part of a networking event hosted by the Tysons Corner Regional Chamber of Commerce. Slide after slide of glossy architectural renderings flashed on a big screen as the developers showcased pictures of new office buildings, new hotels, new condominums and new retail spaces that will start popping up around each of the new metro stations as soon as 2014. In total, tens of millions of square feets in new developed space are on the horizon. But new buildings …
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
After four Silver Line metro stations open in Tysons Corner, smaller urban centers will develop around those new stations.
You may think of Tysons Corner as one large, congested corporate hub overlapping established, more residential communities in Falls Church, McLean and Vienna, but that idea may be a thing of the past come 2014. The emerging concept of the "four towns of Tysons" is the subject a panel of developers and local experts will take on at a Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce discussion on Wednesday. "Tysons will benefit from four new Silver Line Metro stations coming in 2013 and be transformed into a walkable, lively urban center," a press release from the Chamber of Commerce reports. The panel will address: Panelists will include Keith S. Turner, vice president of Cityline Partners; Timothy J. Steffan, senior vice president of Macerich; Aaron J…
Monday, October 15, 2012
See the agenda for the Oct. 16 Board of Supervisors meeting.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will hear a presentation from the Private Sector Energy Task Force Tuesday detailing how the county can begin to become greener and energy efficient. The task force, which is chaired by Leo Schefer, president of the Washington Airports Task Force, is expected to make a series of recommendations to supervisors. The recommendations may include mapping out how the county intends to meet its goal of a carbon-neutral Tysons Corner by 2030. The task froce also support incentives for property owners to invest in sustainable and green improvements to new and existing buildings in the county. Later in the afternoon, the board will conduct a public comment period regarding the transportation-funding plan for …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Columbus Day has never meant so much to us, as we explored "Tysons' Last Forest" for the first time — and hoped that it wouldn't be our last chance.
Some people have to work on Columbus Day. Some get to stay home, sleep in, go to the movies, go shopping, heck, I don’t know … buy a mattress on sale? (Do mattress stores have sales on Columbus Day, as they seem to for all other American holidays?) Anyway. My husband and I decided this year it should be a day we would go explore a new world with the kids. We thought about corn maizes and pumpkin patches, or maybe just a little hike at a nice park near our house. But then I remembered an article I read the other day in The Washington Post about a coalition of citizens who were working to help save "Tysons' Last Forest." The article said that in looking at ways to alleviate traffic in Tysons, Fairfax County's comprehensive plan includes an "…
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Patch will launch a new Tysons Corner site in August.
We heard your requests for a Patch website in the Tysons Corner area, and we're responding! Patch plans to launch a new site for the Tysons Corner community in late August. With a growing population and major infrastructure and business development in progress, Tysons Corner residents and businesses will receive more local news coverage and a platform for community information and engagement. Patch, a community-specific news, information and engagement platform, launched in Virginia in 2010. Patch.com currently reaches residents and businesses across 30 websites in our area from Leesburg to D.C. and as far south as Fredericksburg (and closer to home, in Vienna, McLean, Oakton, Reston and Falls Church). With the addition of Tysons Corner …
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
In response to the second of six questions posed by Patch, the candidates for Chairman of the Board of Supervisors discuss the $1.6 billion in unfunded costs in Tysons' development.
The four candidates running for chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors answered six questions by email for Patch. We will feature one question each day, with the unedited answers by each of the candidates. Incumbent Democrat Sharon Bulova (website, Facebook, Twitter) Independent Christopher DeCarlo (website, YouTube) Independent Will Radle (Facebook, YouTube) Republican Michael “Spike” Williams (website, Facebook) Question #2: According to the Fairfax County Department of Transportation (Table 7 in the Tysons Comprehensive Plan), there are about $1.6 billion in unfunded road and transportation costs in the development of Tysons. Who will be paying these unfunded costs? Explain. Sharon Bulova It is important to remember …
April
12:00 pm on Monday, November 19, 2012
This is absolutely true. I am concerned that the Express toll road preys on the desperate. I guess there is some reason Virginia allows investors to own our roads. more ›