March 5, 2025
Covering Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Lincolnia, and Seven Corners in Fairfax County, Virginia
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Tag: shopping

Work to start imminently on Bailey’s Crossroads shopping center

#Bailey's Crossroads, #land use, #redevelopment, #restaurants, #retail, #shopping
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This house on Charles Street will be demolished. Work on the Shops at Bailey’s Crossroads, the retail center on Leesburg Pike between Charles Street and Washington Drive, is starting imminently, Peter Batten of Spectrum Development told nearby residents at a community meeting July 12. The project consists of two buildings: a CVS drugstore with a … Continued

Bailey’s Crossroads gets a farmers market

#Bailey's Crossroads, #Bailey's Elementary School, #community organizations, #food, #health, #shopping
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Seasonal produce at the mobile market at Bailey’s. A new mobile farmers market is providing fresh, affordable produce to Bailey’s Crossroads residents once a week through October. The Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture is bringing the market to the parking lot at Bailey’s Elementary School, 6111 Knollwood Drive, every Saturday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. The … Continued

Huge book sale at George Mason Regional Library has comics, games, first editions

#community events, #education, #libraries, #shopping, #volunteers

Large selection of comics. [GMF] The semi-annual book sale April 27-30 at George Mason Regional Library in Annandale features movies, music, and videogames as well as 80 categories of books.  There’s an entire room dedicated to children’s titles, sorted by subject and reading level. The event, hosted by George Mason Friends, is open 3-9 p.m. … Continued

Farmers markets open next week

#food, #parks, #shopping

Fresh-from-the-farm tomatoes at the Annandale Farmers Market. Ready to shop outdoors for fresh produce from local farms? Fairfax County’s 11 farmers markets open next week. The market at Wakefield Park, 8100 Braddock Road, Annandale, opens for the season May 3. It will operate 2-6 p.m. every Wednesday through October. The first day for the Annandale … Continued

HHGregg store in Bailey’s Crossroads will close

#Bailey's Crossroads, #businesses, #retail, #shopping
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A typical HHGregg store. The HHGregg store on Columbia Pike in Bailey’s Crossroads is among 88 stores nationwide that are closing as the company struggles financially. The closings, to be completed by mid-April, also affect HHGregg stores in Fairfax and Springfield. “We are strategically exiting markets and stores that are not financially profitable for us,” … Continued

Entrepreneur from Korea finds niche selling appliances in Annandale

#businesses, #people, #retail, #shopping
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Edward Kim By Lynne Beverly Strang, the author of Late-Blooming Entrepreneurs: Eight Principles for Starting a Business after Age 40. This piece was originally published Jan. 17 in Strang’s blog, “Late-Blooming Entrepreneurs.”  Edward Kim is good at multitasking. That’s evident by the way he runs his appliance showroom. On a cold January day, Kim is … Continued

RadioShack is closing

#businesses, #retail, #shopping

The RadioShack/Sprint store at 7408 Little River Turnpike is closing – probably at the end of January or whenever the inventory is gone, says manager William Lopez. Meanwhile, everything is 20 to 50 percent off. RadioShack Corp. filed for bankruptcy a couple of years ago and closed many stores. The company was acquired by General … Continued