The first Missing Middle case to be heard in Arlington Circuit Court was dismissed last week, but legal fees in another lawsuit against the county continue to balloon.
The dismissed lawsuit related to a pair of planned six-plexes in Alcova Heights, approved after the Expanded Housing Option changes. A judge struck the suit down on Friday “due to technical defects,” Zachary Williams, an attorney for developer Classic Cottages, told ARLnow.
Arlington County is taking steps to unilaterally secure and demolish the vacant Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn.
The county announced Friday morning that it has declared the property at 1401 Langston Blvd a “public nuisance… due to its unsafe and unsanitary conditions.”
The first of three towers in a major office-to-residential conversion project has opened in Skyline.
Three Collective, a trio of older, 16-story buildings converted to apartments on the 5000 block of Leesburg Pike, will ultimately lease 675 units with one-, two- and three bedroom configurations. Resident amenities include a large indoor dog park, a bowling alley, a VR gaming lounge and arcade, “social kitchens” and an indoor/outdoor amphitheater, a press release says.
Plans to build an affordable housing development near Crystal City could take a key step forward next week despite a neighborhood association’s objections.
A request to advertise hearings on a possible land-use amendment for the Melwood property in Aurora Highlands is scheduled to go before the Arlington County Board on Tuesday. At issue is the possibility of shifting the site’s zoning designation from “public” to “low-medium residential” — bringing a proposal to build 104 units of affordable housing “within the realm of consideration,” a county report says.
Temporary pickleball and beach volleyball courts could be coming to Crystal City as plans to build two apartment towers face significant delays.
A pair of 30-story apartment buildings are ultimately expected to bring 1,439 residential units and over 22,000 square feet of retail to 223 23rd Street S. and 2250 Crystal Drive. But the project approved in early 2023 won’t be getting off the ground until “construction costs and interest rates normalize” — likely next year at the earliest, developer JBG Smith told ARLnow.
Plans to redevelop a Columbia Pike retail strip as a 247-unit apartment building have fallen through.
Following a year and a half of delays and recent issues with vermin and vandalism, the would-be developer has filed to abandon former ambitions and return the Fillmore Gardens Shopping Center to its former status as a strip mall.
A forthcoming apartment building at the former site of a Wendy’s in Courthouse is named — wait for it — The Wendy.
The 231-unit building, which broke ground in late 2022, is expected to open this fall, according to signage.
Arlington’s Pentagon City Sector Plan has been overturned by a state court.
Reversing a trial court’s decision, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled yesterday (Tuesday) that the Arlington County Board failed to provide sufficient public notice before adopting a vision for the next 30-plus years of growth in Pentagon City.
A new piece of public art celebrating Ballston’s past and present has appeared outside the recently relocated Harris Teeter.
“Present Pastimes,” a window installation by Brooklyn-based artist Olalekan Jeyifous, draws inspiration from the surrounding neighborhood to depict bygone buildings, signage and leisure activities, such as playing golf at a departed putt-putt on Wilson Blvd.
The new 28-story apartment building at The Key development in Rosslyn is complete and seeking new tenants.
Sophie Mao, a spokesperson for the Virginia-based developer Dittmar Company, confirmed that the 514-unit residential building, known as Rosslyn Towers, officially opened this past Saturday, April 27.
An older, 12-story office building in Ballston could become a seven-story apartment building.
Developer Penzance has filed a conceptual site plan to get early feedback on the project from Arlington County staff. The Washington Business Journal reported on the plan and an earlier acquisition of the building, at 4601 N. Fairfax Drive, near the ramps to and from I-66.
The Ballston Macy’s store is no more.
The retailer shuttered within the past couple of weeks, after a store closing sale that lasted about two months. Now it’s just a matter of time until the building is torn down.
