Construction starts on mixed-use project at Landmark
Construction has begun on the first mixed-use building at WestEnd, the huge project underway at the former Landmark Mall site in Alexandria, the Washington Business Journal reports.
Construction of the Inova Health System’s new hospital complex at that site is well underway. That 1.1 million square-foot, $2 billion project – to include a new Alexandria Hospital and related medical offices – is expected to be completed in late 2028.
The hospital complex takes up about a quarter of the Landmark site. The rest of the property will consist of multiple blocks of mixed-use development plus green space.
The first development, known as Aspect, will include 390 housing units and 66,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, according to the WBJ article. The first tenant, already committed, is Tierra Encantada, a company that operates bilingual preschools. Â
Aspect (blocks E and G on the map) will consist of two towers connected by a sky bridge containing a fitness center and shared amenities.
Construction on the Aspect started as soon as the development partners – Foulger Pratt, Howard Hughes Communities, and Silverstein Properties – secured construction financing on March 13.
The entire WestEnd development is expected to have more than 2,500 residential units, 300,000 square feet of retail, 100,000 square feet of medical offices, and a new transit hub.
I’m so excited about this massive, transformative project! I hope it sparks similar development in nearby Lincolnia and Annandale. I especially look forward to the completion of the commercial portion of new Landmark. Maybe, just maybe it will have a movie theater!
It will never happen in Annandale. They had that opporunity when K-Mart closed. Instead they put in another asian/international grocery store. Now they are putting an apartmant complex in. 🙄
If you are talking about a movie theater at the Kmart location, I can’t comment.
But if you are talking about new, better development, that was proposed by the owners when it was known Kmart was shutting down. It was the Board of Supervisors (specifically Gerry Connolly) who shut down the idea due to traffic concerns.
Something had to be done with that space and the KMart became the KMarket. The consolation price is half of the center is becoming an apartment complex.
Who gets all the taxes – ALEXANDRIA
Who gets all the miserable traffic -FAIRFAX COUNTY.
Like City of Alexandria doesn’t get cut through traffic from Fairfax?
Maybe you guys should build a BRT line west along 236.
And stop fighting sidewalks.