Mural planned for Seven Corners
An upcoming façade upgrade at the Willston I Centre in Seven Corners will include a mural on the former CVS building.
The building has been vacant since the CVS closed in 2022. The shopping center is located on the busy intersection of Arlington Boulevard and Patrick Henry Drive, between the Willston Multicultural Center and the Willston II shopping center.
The mural will be produced by Fairfax County’s Paint it, Fairfax! program in partnership with Regency Centers, the owner of Willston I and II.
The county will post a survey within the next couple of weeks asking residents what sort of themes they would like to see in the mural, says Alex Howle, program manager in the Department of Planning and Development’s Community Revitalization Section.
Staff will then convene a seven-member committee to discuss themes for the mural. The committee will review the county’s database of 50 artists, ask three of them to submit concepts, and select an artist to paint the mural.
That is the same approach the county used for the Paint it, Fairfax! mural at the ACCA Child Development Center in central Annandale.
In a related project, a street mural might be included in a future project to improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety on Tom Davis Drive in Annandale, between John Marr Drive and Columbia Pike. The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board approved $80,000 for that project.
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I love Mark’s Duck House, but that entire plaza needs to be razed and rebuilt. A mural isn’t going to do anything. It just represents the County wasting more money they don’t have.
Plaza has not been renovated since I started going there around 1963. Eyesore.
Another old timer here…About that same time I had a paper route (Washington Star) in the Willston Apts., my parents dragged us kids to the Grand Union for Friday night shopping, got my back-to-school used empty cigar boxes at the Drug Fair (or was it Peoples), and went with Dad to pay the exorbitant prices at Menehan (sp?) the Hardware Man. Went to McKinley Elementary not far away. Much later, as a young adult, I spent a fortune upstairs at Myer-Emco.
I’ve long since lived in Annandale so won’t argue for or against the future of an “Arlington” shopping center, but I’d sure miss it regardless.
No offense, but this is one of the ugliest and decrepit commercial buildings in the region. Raze it