WestEnd redevelopment underway
The massive WestEnd development on the site of the former Landmark Mall is advancing. The Alexandria City Council approved a special use permit on Oct. 19 to allow Van Metre Homes to build 110 townhouses, the Washington Business Journal reported.
Van Metre has had Block M and half of Block L on the site under contract and anticipates closing in fall 2025 for an undisclosed price, according to the WBJ.
WestEnd is being developed by Foulger-Pratt and Inova Health System.
On Sept. 30, Inova broke ground for a new Alexandria Hospital complex on the western portion of the 52-acre site. The hospital is expected to be completed in late 2028.
Meanwhile, Foulger-Pratt has already spent about $100 million on site infrastructure, including a new street grid and stormwater system, WBJ reports. Development of the 5.6 million square feet on the non-hospital section of the site is expected to cost at least $1 billion.
In addition to the hospital campus, the City of Alexandria has already approved development special use permits (DSUPs) for Blocks E and G (mixed-use multifamily, medical office, and retail), Blocks I and K (more mixed-use multifamily and retail), and public open space (Blocks F, N, R, and P).
A DSUP for workforce housing on Block D is expected to go through the approval process during the first half of 2025, WBJ reports. Block H is slated for a hotel and condo or hotel alternative. Foulger-Pratt has not yet secured a development partner for that site.
Foulger-Pratt originally planned senior housing for the other half of Block L but is considering other options.
Foulger-Pratt and the City of Alexandria are partnering to build 200 affordable housing units and a fire station on Block J. However, the WBJ article says the city hasn’t budgeted funds for that project until 2030.
9 responses to “WestEnd redevelopment underway”
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Any of the genius politicians in Fairfax (yes – the traffic will affect Fairfax as much or more than Alexandria city) or Alexandria think about traffic? – this will be a disaster. Maybe we just make more bike lanes to appease the progressives so that folks going to the ER have to bike there or use a rickshaw…or throw up a data center to complement the Town Center…
This is so exciting and pivotal to transforming West End into a dynamic, thriving commercial and residential community. It’s time for big modem, mixed use development in this area. Hopefully, it will soon spillover to Lincolnia.
Exactly! We need a similar development project for the dump called “Landmark Plaza”!
I do t know where Javier lives in Lincolnia and if he’s tackled the web of traffic at Chamblis /dead end/lincolnia Road/236. It’s a Gordian knot. Traffic is backed up on everyone of those street 15 hrs a day. 3 cycles to get from juncture of lincolnia and Chamblis to 236. I’ve predicted Alexandria is not going to stop at the new site. It has its eyes on both shopping centers on the corners of 236 and Chamblis all the way to the city line at Braddock and 236. I’m 83 so it ain’t going be my problem.
And I applaud those developments too! Beauregard is in the midst of tremendous mixed use development, and the area apart from Landmark will soon
Undergo a major transformation with new massive mixed use development. Landmark Plaza is slated for a major overhaul that will make it into a modern
Power center. I’m so excited!
Wow, either you don’t drive much or you enjoy sitting through endless light cycles in one of the already most congested areas in Fairfax. I mean, these developer’s dream plans are nice, but unless there is some very innovative plans to deal with all the cars, this place will be most undesirable and mired in gridlock.
Where did you see that?
What a contrast, they get mixed-use development, and we just across the county line get more affordable housing and standalone apartment buildings, and developers vying to tear down our retail centers and turn those into apartment buildings.
Many years ago, someone dropped a plate of spaghetti on the floor and decided to make that the Northern Virginia road network. Combine this with multiple traffic lights added (none of which are synched) have led to this traffic problem. Yet everyone still scratches their heads why traffic is so bad in this area. I’m very happy to see new and modern developments, but until a functional road network is developed, the area will remain gridlocked.