July 12, 2026
Covering Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Lincolnia, and Seven Corners in Fairfax County, Virginia

Board of Supervisors approves Seven Corners redevelopment plan

#Board of Supervisors, #land use, #redevelopment, #Seven Corners, #transportation, #Willston Center
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    The Seven Corners plan calls for affordable housing to be replaced on a one-to-one basis. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved a long-term plan for the redevelopment of Seven Corners shortly after midnight July 29 after adding  provisions to ensure that affordable housing will be retained, that a school will be built … Continued

Collect for Kids provides school supplies for needy students

#children, #schools, #Stuart High School, #volunteers

Sally Saunders (left) of Engility Corp. with Our Daily Bread’s Seasonal Programs Manager Dawn Sykes at Oak View Elementary School in Fairfax. Engility employees contributed to ODB’s 2014 Collect for Kids Back to School Program and delivered school supplies to needy students. [ODB] While many parents are spending hundreds of dollars to get their children … Continued

Mr. Tofu opens in Annandale

#businesses, #food, #restaurants
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Annandale has a new Korean restaurant – Mr. Tofu. It’s in the same spot as Dolce Café and Bakery, 7137 Little River Turnpike, which closed several months ago. Connie Yu, the owner of both Dolce and Mr. Tofu, renovated the space and reformatted the menu to focus on heartier lunch and dinner fare.    While … Continued

Local Scouts take on the wilderness

#nature, #volunteers, #youths

Thirty-one local Boy Scouts from Troop 895 took part in a challenging wilderness hiking and camping experience in New Mexico earlier this month. The boys, along with 12 adult advisers, were based at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, N.M., the Boy Scouts’ flagship high adventure camp. They hiked 80 to 100 miles over 12 days, … Continued

Bailey’s Gateway project canceled

#Bailey's Crossroads, #housing, #land use, #real estate, #redevelopment, #zoning
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5600 Columbia Pike Foulger-Pratt has dropped plans to develop a 433-unit apartment building on the site of a vacant office building at 5600 Columbia Pike in Bailey’s Crossroads after the company failed to reach an agreement on purchasing the property from Government Properties Income Trust. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors had approved an amendment … Continued

Suspicious device found in storm drain

#police, #stormwater
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A strange, possibly dangerous object found in a storm drain in the 9300 block of Glenbrook Road in the Mantua neighborhood in Fairfax July 21 was determined to be an inert (training) round from a bazooka like those used in the Korean War, the Fairfax County Police Department reports. The device was discovered by a … Continued

Note to readers

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The Annandale Blog will be on a break until some point in late July. You can still post comments, although they might not appear immediately. Have a nice summer!