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.
As Google plans to funnel $1 billion into Northern Virginia data centers, places such as Arlington may have renewed opportunities to attract tech investment.
Although the data center expansions announced last week are based in Loudoun County and Prince William County, they impact the entire area, said Terry Clower, director of George Mason University’s Center for Regional Analysis.
A trio of suspects, including one armed with a gun, reportedly robbed the Macy’s store at the Pentagon City mall this afternoon.
The robbery happened around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Free jazz concerts are returning to Metropolitan Park in Pentagon City starting this week.
The first performance, featuring the JoGo Project, will take place this Thursday from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Attendees are invited to bring chairs or sit on the green at 1330 S. Fair Street starting at 4 p.m.
Amazon’s blowout Q1 earnings are not the only cause for celebration at HQ2.
The Pentagon City office complex will also get some special outdoor guests, starting this week: live alpacas. The South American camelid mammals will be outside of Peruvian Brothers (1450 S. Eads Street) from 4-6 p.m. Friday for the restaurant’s first Alpaca Happy Hour.
A man was seriously injured when two acquaintances tried to rob him of jewelry early Sunday morning, police say.
The incident happened early Sunday morning in the Arlington Mill neighborhood. The man was hospitalized and two suspects — who share the same last name — were later arrested.
If you are a parent of young kids, you obviously know CoComelon. And now the YouTube hit is coming to life in Arlington.
The DoubleTree Crystal City Hotel (300 Army Navy Drive) is set to host “CoComelon Party Time” this weekend. The event from May 3-5 will feature various experiences for children, including their favorite characters — JJ, Cody, Nina and more — dancing and engaging in themed activities.
Arlington County police were reportedly engaged in a standoff with a pair of criminal suspects in a parking garage Tuesday afternoon.
The incident started just after 4 p.m. on the P5 level of the Pentagon City mall garage, when a vehicle with two suspects inside allegedly rammed a police cruiser and refused officer commands to get out of the car.
A single Pentagon City intersection has been the site of dozens of crashes in recent years.
Videos of vehicles colliding at the intersection of Army Navy Drive and S. Hayes Street proliferate on the social media account of local public safety watcher Dave Statter. In several, drivers exiting I-395 can be seen hurtling into slower-moving vehicles on Hayes.
Construction of a new park near Amazon’s HQ2 as well as improvements to sidewalks and bike lanes in the area could begin soon.
Arlington Junction Park is projected to be complete at 1051 S. Eads Street in about 18 months, if the Arlington County Board approves a $2.5 million contract on Saturday. The Board will also consider $2.9 million for two projects to improve S. Eads Street between Army Navy Drive and 15th Street South.
Arlington and high-end yoga pants are a match of market and product that’s right up there with 17th century Dutchmen and tulips.
Thus it’s only appropriate that the foremost purveyor of the former would open a second Arlington location.
An intentionally “weird” shop specializing in international snacks, sodas and oddities has closed.
Highs & Lows’ location at the Pentagon City mall shuttered several weeks ago, a mall representative told ARLnow.
