Dan Egitto is an editor and reporter at ARLnow. Originally from Central Florida, he graduated from Duke University and previously reported at the Palatka Daily News in Florida and the Vallejo Times-Herald in California. Dan joined ARLnow in January 2024.
Who will you be listening to the next time it snows in Arlington — Saline Dion or Taylor Drift?
The results of Arlington’s snowplow naming contest are in, with puns aplenty.
Improvements to the Rosslyn Tunnel carrying I-66 under the neighborhood are expected to wrap up next year.
The rehabilitation project by the Virginia Department of Transportation, which began construction in fall 2022, is bringing the following upgrades.
A new 420-unit apartment building in Crystal City has begun leasing.
The Zoe, a 19-story tower at 2051 S. Bell Street, is one of two buildings replacing the former Crystal Plaza One office building at 2001 Richmond Highway.
A Clarendon nightlife spot has been declared unfit for occupancy over safety issues.
Notices prohibiting activity at Coco B’s and the B Live site — formerly home to the longtime local bar Whitlow’s — were posted last week at 2854 Wilson Blvd.
Plans to build a new apartment building and townhouse development near Columbia Pike have taken a significant step forward.
The Arlington County Board last month approved use permits for two projects, just a few blocks away from each other, with a total of 104 proposed housing units.
A new traffic signal near Barrett Elementary School is on track to be installed early next year.
A work crew was at the intersection of N. George Mason Drive and N. Park Drive yesterday afternoon (Monday) as the county replaces the crossing’s rapid flashing beacon with a four-way traffic light.
Plans to add a traffic signal to a crash-prone intersection north of Columbia Pike are taking another step forward.
Proposed improvements to S. Glebe Road and 9th Street S. will be the topic of a county open house on Thursday, Dec. 5.
Though proposals for gondola-style transit projects have yet to take off in Arlington, they aren’t completely dead.
No plans for “gondola or gondola-like studies” are currently in the works here, Transportation Principal Planner Dan Malouff told ARLnow.
Arlington County’s firefighter union has taken a vote of no confidence against Fire Chief David Povlitz.
The vote passed by wide margins today (Wednesday), with about 81% of voting members calling for the chief to resign, IAFF Local 2800 announced. About 71% of the union participated.
The Arlington County Board has unanimously voted to appeal a judge’s ruling on Missing Middle zoning changes.
The county’s lawyers had previously said they planned to contest the circuit court decision, which prevents the county from issuing any more permits under the much-debated Expanded Housing Option. However, the Arlington County Board had not held a public vote on an appeal until yesterday (Tuesday).
Go-along-to-get-along will not be the strategy of Arlington’s top prosecutor as the nation heads into the second Donald Trump era.
Instead, she is asking those on her side of the political aisle to embrace new ways of fighting back.
A 7-Eleven has closed for good in Clarendon.
A sign indicating the convenience store’s closure was on display at 3137 Wilson Blvd last Friday, an observer noted on Bluesky. The sign directs would-be patrons to another 7-Eleven a few blocks away.
