Morning Notes

Ramp Closing for VDOT Project — “Beginning at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, weather permitting, the ramp from southbound I-395 to westbound Boundary Channel Drive (Exit 10A) will be closed for several months as part of the Boundary Channel Drive at I-395 Interchange Improvements project… Drivers will be able to access westbound Boundary Channel Drive via the southbound I-395 Exit 9 (Clark Street) ramp, where there will be a temporary stop sign for left turns onto westbound Boundary Channel. This traffic pattern will be in place until mid-2023.” [VDOT]

Overturned Vehicle Near Pentagon City — “Scanner: ACFD is on scene of a vehicle flipped on its side near Pentagon City, at the rear of the Horizon House condo complex along S. Nash Street. Elderly male driver was removed from the vehicle and is being evaluated for injuries.” [Twitter]

County Historic Preservation Grants — “Arlington County has launched the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), a competitive grant program that will support community and individual projects related to Arlington’s history, built environment, and cultural heritage. The application period is now open. It closes on April 28, 2023.” [Arlington County]

State Readies HQ2 Grants — “Amazon.com Inc. on July 1 will be due a first round of incentive payments from Virginia, just shy of five years after the e-commerce giant agreed to build a $2.5 billion second headquarters in Arlington and create thousands of new jobs. In his revised two-year budget bill now before the General Assembly’s appropriations committees, Gov. Glenn Youngkin proposes to set aside $78 million in the Major Headquarters Workforce Grant Fund for Amazon.” [Washington Business Journal]

Jeff Bezos in Town — “Several well-placed sources tell me Jeff Bezos was at Washington Post headquarters today, meeting with publisher and C.E.O. Fred Ryan. The visit comes after months of internal frustrations with Ryan’s leadership, and a fallout between Ryan and executive editor Sally Buzbee over the direction of the paper.” [Puck, Twitter]

Big Round for Local Startup — “Arlington-based EarthOptics, a soil tester that uses satellite imagery and machine learning to create detailed carbon maps of farms, raised a $27.6 million funding round to grow internationally and meet what it says has been a fast-growing market demand in just the past year.” [Washington Business Journal]

Where Arlington Ends & D.C. Begins — From WAMU’s Jordan Pascale: “[Today] I learned that the traffic circle outside of Arlington Cemetery is actually still Washington D.C.” [Twitter]

It’s Thursday — Rain until evening. High of 54 and low of 39. Sunrise at 7:25 am and sunset at 5:16 pm. [Weather.gov]