A former truck depot on Columbia Pike that became a sudden and unexpected bus stop in 2019 could take on a life as a miniature park.
A property at 4110 Columbia Pike, currently home to a 7-Eleven and previously the site of a Penske truck rental, is one of three planned locations for “mini parks” included in the Barcroft Apartments development project.
Two brothers born into slavery in the 1820s have been honored with new “stumbling stone” historical markers on Columbia Pike.
The bronze emblems, embedded into the sidewalk at the intersection of the Pike and S. Ode Street, honor the lives of Thornton and Daniel Check.
Arlington County police are investigating a pair of separate Sunday incidents involving teen suspects with weapons.
The first happened early Sunday morning in the Crystal City area, when four teen boys brandished what looked like a gun and stole a victim’s jewelry.
Former critics of abandoned plans to build a streetcar on Columbia Pike are seeing vindication in the looming demise of a similar piece of infrastructure in D.C.
After D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced plans last week to phase out the District’s 2.2-mile H Street streetcar line, some Arlington commentators are drawing parallels to former plans for a 5-mile system between Pentagon City and Skyline.
The annual Columbia Pike Blues Festival is returning in two weeks for an afternoon of festivities for all ages.
The D.C. area’s largest blues festival is coming back for its 28th year on Saturday, June 14, stretching from S. Walter Reed Drive to 9th Street S. on the Pike. As always, it’s free.
After 20 years at the Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse, the beloved Columbia Pike venue’s owners are passing the torch to the business’s longtime manager.
Pete Fejeran, who has managed the comedy club and theater at 2903 Columbia Pike for the past 12 years, has taken ownership alongside his wife Kathryn McAbee. Former owners Tim Clark and Greg Godbout are stepping down to pursue “other opportunities,” Fejeran said.
A 27-year-old Arlington man has been accused of assaulting a kid, threatening him and two other kids with a gun, and then trying to disarm an officer while getting arrested.
The alleged drunken incident happened Saturday afternoon near the Barcroft Apartments along Columbia Pike.
Firefighters rescued several people using ladders after a fire in an apartment stairwell early this morning.
The fire broke out just before 5 a.m. Thursday at a garden apartment complex along Columbia Pike, on the 1000 block of S. Quebec Street.
Acme Pie Co. has reopened for business in a new Columbia Pike storefront, with the same pinball machines and a new breakfast menu.
The longtime pie shop recently completed the move from 2803 Columbia Pike to 2406 Columbia Pike, where the Columbia Pike Deli closed earlier this year.
A planned redevelopment project at a busy Columbia Pike intersection has reportedly been canceled.
Developer Christopher Companies has abandoned years-long plans to turn the Elkins Building at 2801 Columbia Pike into a multifamily building with 88 units, Angela Kostelecky, senior architect at Devereaux and Associates, told ARLnow.
A decades-old CVS Pharmacy has completed its relocation on Columbia Pike, shuttering its former location amid new redevelopment plans.
Workers could be seen removing supplies from the former store at the Fillmore Gardens Shopping Center on Friday. Its replacement, located about half a mile away on the ground floor of Westmont Apartments at 3301 Columbia Pike, opened in late March.
Newly resurrected redevelopment plans for an abandoned Columbia Pike strip mall have leaders optimistic that an end to a long and embarrassing saga is in sight.
Developer Toll Brothers filed plans last week to rebuild the 2600 block of Columbia Pike as a mixed-use project with 262 housing units and 16,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. It’s the successor to The Elliot, a planned development at the Fillmore Gardens Shopping Center that fell through last year after a ground-floor grocery tenant backed out.
