Tag: businesses
New salon opens in Annandale
Zaid Bakeer at work. Annandale’s got a new hair salon. Hayadi Salon was opened in late December at 4530 John Marr Drive by Daphne and Zaid Bakeer. The salon, in a former dentist’s office in the John Marr Professional Building, does haircuts, color, highlights, and styling for men and woman. The John Marr Professional Center. … Continued
Annandale has seen a lot of change in the past few years
Fuddruckers, on Little River Turnpike and Backlick Road in Annandale, closed in May 2012. It was replaced with Walgreens. The end of a year is a good time to reflect on the past, so we’ve gone through our photo archives and pulled together a collection of pictures of local businesses that have disappeared since the … Continued
Annandale property undergoing renovation to prepare for rental
The little house at 7025 Columbia Pike is being renovated to attract a tenant. A glass door will be installed in front, walls will be removed inside, and the interior and exterior will be improved, said Veronica Salcido of KLNB LLC, a commercial real estate company. The work should be finished in early 2016. The … Continued
Lotte Market opens in Ravensworth Shopping Center
Shoppers enjoyed a variety of samples cooked in the store on opening day. Shoppers at the new Lotte Plaza Market at the renovated Ravensworth Shopping Center found a wide selection of exotic fruits, vegetables, and seafood – and lots of free samples – on the Asian grocery store’s opening day Dec. 19. The Ravensworth Plaza … Continued
Barcroft Plaza Starbucks to serve beer and wine
The Starbucks coffee shop at Barcroft Plaza will be selling beer and wine – although don’t expect this to be happening right away. It’s set to become one of a growing number of “Starbucks Evenings” locations that will offer wine and craft beer along with savory small plates, like flatbreads, bacon-wrapped dates, and truffle macaroni … Continued
Public invited to community meeting on new DMV in Barcroft Plaza
Renovations under way at new DMV on Columbia Pike. Anyone concerned about the plans for a new Department of Motor Vehicles center in Barcroft Plaza is encouraged to come to a community meeting hosted by the Mason District Council Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m., at the cafeteria in Belvedere Elementary School. Del. Kaye Kory and representatives … Continued
Annandale will get another phone store
Central Annandale has at least a dozen cell phone stores, but it doesn’t have a T-Mobile dealer. That will change soon. A T-Mobile store is expected to open, in mid-January at the earliest, at 7262 Columbia Pike in a building that used to house the U.S. Tae Kwon Do College. The owner of the new … Continued
Title and payday lenders banned in revitalization areas
TitleMax recently moved into the building on Little River Turnpike formerly occupied by Jerry’s Subs. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 17 approved a Zoning Ordinance amendment to restrict title and payday lenders. These businesses, referred to as “alternative lending institutions,” prey on the poor, charging interest rates as high as 300 percent. … Continued
Fairfax Water plans to use eminent domain to take property in Merrifield
8515 Lee Highway [Google Maps] The Fairfax County Water Authority is planning to use eminent domain to acquire a property at 8515 Lee Highway in Merrifield for a new maintenance facility. The agency is conducting a public hearing on the issue Nov. 19 at Fairfax Water’s offices at 8570 Executive Park Ave., Fairfax. According to … Continued
RadioShack sharing its space with Sprint
Sprint is a store-within-a-store at RadioShack. When RadioShack Corp. filed for bankruptcy last winter and announced plans to close at least 1,784 of its 4,000 stores, the one at 7408 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, wasn’t one of them. But it is one of the 1,435 RadioShack stores combining operations with Sprint as part of the … Continued
DMV coming to Barcroft Plaza
The long-empty storefront on the northern end of the Barcroft Plaza shopping center on Columbia Pike is finally getting a tenant – a Department of Motor Vehicles center. The DMV at 4150 S. Four Mile Run Drive in Arlington is losing its lease, so that center is being relocated to Barcroft Plaza, which is only … Continued
Lacey store robbed at gunpoint
The Lacey Variety Store [Google Maps] The tiny Lacey Variety Store at 3716 Lacey Blvd., in Bailey’s Crossroads was robbed at gunpoint at about 10:08 p.m., Oct. 26. Two men entered the store wearing masks. One displayed a handgun and ordered a man working there to lie on the floor, while the other took money … Continued
Dama brings taste of Ethiopia to Annandale
From the Dama restaurant in Arlington, clockwise from the left: kitfo, lentils, cabbage with carrots, tibs, collared greens, and split pea puree. In the middle: doro wat in between different kinds of spiced cheeses. Dama, the Ethiopian restaurant and bakery coming to 6669 Little River Turnpike in Annandale, is expected to have a soft opening … Continued
Halloween fun tonight at the Annandale Shopping Center
Are you brave enough to enter the Haunted Village? Visitors to the “Haunted Village of Annandale” will find scary versions of a pizza shop, barber shop, jail, movie theater, witches graveyard, and more – with local residents in costume – in the open area between the two sections of Annandale Shopping Center on Columbia Pike. … Continued
Health clinic relocating to shopping center on Little River Turnpike
American Executive Health System is relocating from its current location at 7611 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, to the spot between Petco and Safeway in the Little River Plaza Shopping Center. That space was formerly occupied by Try, a shop that sold high-end underwear imported from Korea. The clinic provides urgent care, primary care, cardiovascular … Continued