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

Amazon Go Grocery store expected to open in former Bailey’s Crossroads Safeway

The Safeway at the Crossroads Center closed in June 2019. The shuttered Safeway at Crossroads Center in Bailey’s Crossroads is expected to be converted to an Amazon Go Grocery store.  Neither Amazon nor the owner or leasing agent for the shopping center confirmed that plan but the Washington Business Journal obtained documents from Construction Journal indicating … Continued

Planning Commission endorses a revised redevelopment plan for western Annandale

The site of a proposed redevelopment project on Little River Turnpike in Annandale.  The Fairfax County Planning Commission agreed that a major redevelopment project in Annandale’s west end should be included in the county’s Comprehensive Plan work program for 2021 – with two major changes.  That project calls for 575 multifamily residential units, 156,000 square … Continued

Community members speak out against redevelopment proposals in Annandale and Seven Corners

The Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center on Row Street in Seven Corners wants to develop a community center. Local residents spoke out against most of the six nominations for redevelopment projects in Mason District at a Planning Commission hearing last week. The projects have been nominated for inclusion in Fairfax County’s Comprehensive Plan Amendment Work Program for … Continued

Neighbors speak out against senior housing project at First Christian Church in Seven Corners

An illustration of the proposed senior housing project on Leesburg Pike in Seven Corners. Local residents raised some key concerns about a proposal for a senior housing project in Seven Corners at a lengthy Fairfax County Planning Commission hearing Nov. 18.  That proposal – submitted by First Christian Church at 6165 Leesburg Pike – is … Continued

Fairfax County staff oppose plan amendments for two projects in Annandale, one in Seven Corners

Planning staff opposes a large mixed-use project on this site in Annandale, viewed from Woodland Road. Fairfax County Planning and Development Department staff are recommending that three of the six “site-specific plan amendments” proposed for Mason District be included in the Comprehensive Plan Amendment Work Program for 2021 – and three should not.  The Planning … Continued

Inova to open a new cancer screening center

The Schar Cancer Institute on the Inova campus on Gallows Road just north of Annandale. Inova Health System and its Inova Schar Cancer Institute announced plans to open a new cancer screening and prevention center on the campus of the Inova Center for Personalized Health in fall 2021. The new 24,000-square-foot center will provide life-saving services for these types of cancers: … Continued

Fairfax County board approves townhouses at Graham Park Plaza

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 20 approved a proposal by EYA Development LLC to build 177 townhouses on the western portion of Graham Park Plaza on Arlington Boulevard. Among other actions at the BoS meeting, the supervisors approved a plan for disposal of the Confederate monuments at the judicial complex in Fairfax … Continued