A vandalism spree earlier this week in the Yorktown neighborhood is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
Graffiti was discovered Monday morning on 27th Street N. and N. Jefferson Street, a few blocks from Yorktown High School. It included a swastika painted on the sidewalk and a swastika and a racial slur spray painted on a car.
Green Valley Leader Remembered — “As part of a day of service held during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the life and legacy of John Robinson Jr. was celebrated with installation of a marker at his grave… After realizing that his grave was unmarked, Mrs. Althea Roseboro approached the civic association in support of having one designed and installed.” [Gazette Leader]
JBG Focusing on Nat’l Landing — “JBG Smith Properties will continue to sell assets to fund new projects and acquisitions, according to a Tuesday letter to shareholders. That likely means just about anything and everything outside National Landing could be on the table for potential sale in the years to come.” [Washington Business Journal, Bisnow]
Roads are closed around the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn after a fire in the vacant hotel.
Firefighters responded to the site at 1401 Langston Blvd around 8:30 p.m. and found fire on the fourth floor, according to ACFD.
The man who struck and killed a woman near the Thomas Jefferson Community Center in the fall of 2022 will spend four years in prison.
Julio David Villazon received his 10-year sentence, of which six years were suspended, on Friday, according to Arlington County Circuit Court records. After his release, he will have five years of supervised probation. The court also suspended his driver’s license indefinitely.
With ranked-choice voting now the go-to method for local primaries in Arlington, the County Board is also considering using it for the November general election.
This Saturday, the Board plans to hold a public hearing to decide whether to use the voting method, also known as RCV, in the County Board election this fall to fill Chair Libby Garvey’s soon-to-be-vacant seat — the only one expected to be empty.
Two development proposals in Clarendon and Virginia Square are facing delays.
Last week, ARLnow reported that St. Charles Catholic Church was suspending its church redevelopment plans for now, citing economic conditions. Two other projects nearby likewise cite the country’s economic outlook as one reason progress is taking longer than expected.
A food hall in Rosslyn will soon undergo a major transformation.
Assembly, the food hall at Rosslyn City Center (1700 N. Moore Street), will be closing on Friday, March 1, a PR rep tells ARLnow. In its place will rise a new food hall called Upside on Moore.
Oyster Bar Coming to Pentagon City — “King Street Oyster Bar has inked a deal for a new location near the planned next phase of Amazon.com Inc.’s second headquarters. The restaurant chain, launched in 2014 by Rick Allison and Jorge Esguerra, will open its sixth location inside the Sage at National Landing, a 20-story multifamily building at 480 11th St. S. in Pentagon City. An early 2025 debut is planned.” [Washington Business Journal]
Waste Collection Fee Rising — “Arlington County Board members on Feb. 27 are expected to advertise for a later public hearing a proposal to increase the county government’s residential trash-and-recycling fee. Under the proposal, the annual cost for trash collection and recycling services would rise from $406.14 to $415.75 per household to account for higher costs.” [Gazette Leader]
A sewer repair project running underneath homes, parkland and highway lanes between the Spout Run Pkwy and Rosslyn is set to wrap up this spring.
Contractor AM-Liner East is scheduled to finish relining 3,400 linear feet of aging wastewater pipe, some of which is 115 feet below ground, by March 1.
A New York man has been charged with drunkenly brandishing a gun in Clarendon over the Presidents Day weekend.
The alleged incident happened around 1 a.m. on Monday on the 3100 block of Wilson Blvd. Arlington County police say the man was kicked out of a bar, then returned with a gun and started arguing with an employee standing outside.
A grim anniversary quietly passed last month: four years since the still-unsolved murder of Scott Ratigan.
The 24-year-old was found dead with “trauma to the upper body” in his Ballston apartment in January 2020. The 911 caller reported a strong smell of bleach in the apartment, according to scanner traffic at the time.
(Updated at 12:35 p.m.) Even in the era of Missing Middle, some duplex projects in Arlington have to go to the Arlington County Board for approval.
A proposal to build two side-by-side homes for sale at 1129 N. Utah Street, a few blocks from the Ballston Metro station and Washington-Liberty High School, is one such project.
