A construction project at the former Red Lion Hotel on Arlington Blvd is moving forward as scheduled with plans to start leasing next summer.
The 441-unit project at 1501 Arlington Blvd, dubbed “Elara,” is on track to welcome its first tenants in June 2027, David Orr, founder and CEO of Orr Partners, told ARLnow.
A hotel in Courthouse has been sold for conversion into multifamily units, the latest in a series of adaptive reuse projects around the county.
Arlington Court Suites, a Clarion Collection hotel, will be closing at 1200 N. Courthouse Road following a $35 million sale to GoodHomes Communities, the real estate brokerage firm KLNB announced yesterday (Monday). The conversion project, which will turn 187 hotel rooms into 180 multifamily units, was approved by the Arlington County Board back in October 2020.
A county advisory panel proved disinclined to push for a mandatory local “rent registry” giving the public more transparency when it comes to rising apartment costs.
The proposal, floated in late May by the legislative-priorities subcommittee of the Housing Commission, did not make the cut at the subcommittee’s June 29 work session.
Construction is starting on the conversion of a vacant Virginia Square office building into 94 apartments — a project now named Renley.
Gilbane Development announced the start of work on Monday. The developer acquired the six-story, 121,200-square-foot building at 3601 Wilson Blvd, a block from the Virginia Square Metro station, in March 2025 and proposed the conversion soon after.
Those with $1,500 to spend monthly on apartment rent in Arlington can expect either a tight squeeze or, more likely, finding roommates to share the burden.
A new national survey finds that $1,500 will result in an average 478 square feet of rentable apartment space in the county, the equivalent of a studio apartment.
One of Arlington’s advisory panels is considering a push to require local landlords to make their rent increases public annually.
The legislative subcommittee of the county government’s Housing Commission has included the proposal on a list of potential 2027 legislative priorities.
Despite a year-over-year decline, Arlington’s apartment market in May retained its position as most expensive in the region and fifth most expensive urban area nationally.
The county’s median apartment-rental rate of $2,609 — $2,457 for one-bedroom units, $2,969 for two bedrooms — was down 1.4% year over year, according to figures reported May 28 by Apartment List.
An office building in Crystal City has begun the process of transforming into a 195-unit multifamily building.
JBG Smith announced that construction has begun at 2200 Crystal Drive, an 11-story building that the Arlington County Board approved for conversion from offices to apartments in July 2025.
A dog was rescued from an apartment fire in Arlington this morning.
The fire was reported around 8:45 a.m. Thursday on the second floor of a high-rise building in the 4500 block of S. Four Mile Run Drive, just south of Columbia Pike, according to the Arlington County Fire Department.
A major development project straddling the Arlington-Fairfax county line on Wilson Blvd took another procedural step forward this week.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (May 5) gave the owner of a key Seven Corners residential parcel the ability to more than double units on the site while also adding retail space.
A redevelopment project at the site of two former hotels in Green Valley has broken ground, promising new apartments and townhouses in early 2028.
NOVEL Arlington, located at the former site of the Hotel Pentagon and Comfort Inn Pentagon City, is getting underway at 2480 S. Glebe Road — promising a mix of 493 apartments, 37 for-rent townhomes and 549 parking spaces.
Arlington’s median apartment rental rates remain modestly down year-over-year in one new national survey, while posting a slight uptick in another.
In each case, the county’s costs for renters are among the highest in the nation — fifth most expensive in one survey, seventh in the other.
