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

2020: What opened, what closed

Lidl opens in Pinecrest Plaza. Many of the restaurants and other businesses that closed during 2020 couldn’t survive under the restrictions to stop the spread of COVID. Meanwhile, a fair number of businesses opened this year in spite of the pandemic. Here’s a rundown of the restaurants and other business that opened and closed in … Continued

Giant to add labels indicating products are from a minority-owned company

The Giant on Columbia Pike in Annandale. Giant Food will introduce new shelf labels in January for about 3,100 products sold in its stores that come from minority-owned businesses, the company announced last week. The labels will let shoppers know certain products are from women, black, Asian-Indian, Hispanic, LGBT, or veteran-owned businesses. There are 218 … 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

Annandale Treasure Trove closes permanently

The Treasure Trove consignment shop in the Annandale Shopping Center on Columbia Pike has closed permanently, Inova announced Nov. 4. The challenge of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to the temporary closing of the three Treasure Trove stores run by Inova, meant “our charitable dollars, supported by your generous purchases, donations, and consignments, … Continued

Two Annandale development proposals deemed worthy of further consideration

This facility could be replaced with a four-story structure. A Mason District task force agreed Sept. 2 that two proposed projects in Annandale – an expansion of a storage facility on Ravensworth Road and a major mixed-use redevelopment project between Little River Turnpike and Hummer Road – should proceed to the next phase.  The task … Continued