Bailey’s Crossroads car dealership plans major expansion
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| Radley Acura as seen from Columbia Pike. |
Radley Acura, the car dealership at 5823 Columbia Pike in Bailey’s Crossroads, has big expansion plans.
Radley is seeking approval from Fairfax County to construct
a 5,400-square foot addition behind the new-car showroom with a waiting room and drive-through lane
where customers can drop off their cars for service.
A new three-story parking garage, 49 feet high, would be
built on top of the addition and the existing service building, land use
attorney Bob Brant told the Mason District Land Use Committee March 23. The garage
would be used to store vehicles and would only be accessed by Radley staff.
The garage is needed because the dealership doesn’t have
enough land for vehicle storage. It currently uses an adjacent rental property on
Williams Lane and rents space in a parking garage at the former Landmark Mall
site.
The Radley proposal includes a stormwater facility,
landscaping, and a buffer separating the dealership from the Ellery Place
townhouses.
Related story: Board of Supervisors approves Columbia Crossroads project in Bailey’s Crossroads
A new road connecting Seminary Road and Columbia Pike is
eventually planned to run behind and on the right side of Radley Acura. An
office building on that property was demolished in 2018, and the Crossroads Interim Park opened on a section of that lot in 2019.
That road is still a long way off, and there is no timeline for building it. “It would require a lot
of coordination with multiple property owners,” Brant said.
According to Brant, an apartment building and townhouse development
is moving forward on the Weissberg property on the other side of the proposed
Seminary Road extension. That project, which also includes a future county
office building, was approved by the Board of Supervisors in 2017.
Radley Acura, which has been in its current location since 1986, “is
making a substantial reinvestment in the Bailey’s Crossroads community,” Brant
said.
Radley’s expansion proposal is expected to go before the Planning
Commission in September.
I'll take any and all development and redevelopment in Bailey's and 7-corner. Anything!
Too many projects delayed and cancelled.
We don't need a new South County Office Building built off of Columbia Pike where the homeless shelter used to be. The shelter which was on Moncure Avenue was demolished a few week ago. Penny wants to hurry up and get her new office building – I'm sure she's tired of having to use the older Mason District Governmental Center and having to share it with Mason Police. Penny will argue that the bond money has already been approved for the new county building, however, Mason District needs that bond money for far more important uses. Like a new elementary school in Willston Center on property owned by county. Elementary schools are already overcrowded and have to be boundary changes made.
Has anyone noticed the horrible trash on Seminary Road just across the street from the new Homeless Shelter. Why can't Penny spend money to cleanup and beautify Mason District. I guess it's not her problem because it's always somebody else's issue or fault. Penny needs to save her time for developers' wants.
Ill take the South Office Bldg. The entire place is on big junk yard, and as soon as one crosses the border to Arlington its like traveling to OZ. New sidewalks, street lights, trees and plantings. All we have are plastic bags blowing in the wind, shopping carts, trash everywhere, huge spools of wire/cables, its just a mess. Really Penny, you need to go back to school and take home economics, because your district is an absolute trash heap, or should I just say a "dump," stated many times on this blog. Gee I wonder why?