Free weekend and evening parking is ending this week at several popular parking garages in Crystal City and Pentagon City.
JBG Smith — the prolific owner, operator and developer of numerous properties throughout National Landing and the D.C. area — will begin charging motorists a modest fee to park after-hours beginning on April 1.
A proposal to add hundreds more homes to Pentagon City’s RiverHouse site is heading to the County Board this week with the Planning Commission’s blessing.
The Planning Commission voted unanimously last week to recommend approving JBG Smith’s plan to add more than 740 townhouses, stacked flats and multifamily units to the 36-acre parcel located along Army Navy Drive and S. Joyce Street.
A free event on the future of artificial intelligence is taking place in Crystal City this weekend, resulting in a few road closures.
Programming for “AI Unlocked” begins at 10 a.m. on Friday at the Alamo Drafthouse (1660 Crystal Drive). That morning will feature a conversation on AI policy with U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), followed by an afternoon discussion on “tech frontiers.”
New conversion projects on three aging, mostly empty office buildings in Arlington have caused the county’s office vacancy rate to drop by more than a full percentage point.
County leaders hope that these adaptive reuse projects, combined with newly approved standards for signage on commercial buildings, contribute to making Arlington a more enticing place for developers and corporate tenants alike.
A new 355-unit apartment building has begun leasing in Crystal City, completing a pair of neighboring developments at the site of a former office building.
Valen, a 25-story tower at 2050 S. Bell Street, offers one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments with floor-to-ceiling windows and a rooftop pool. Its neighbor at 2051 S. Bell Street, The Zoe, began leasing last fall.
A new conference and event center is coming to Crystal City.
Concorde, a 12,000-square-foot space with room for about 470 people, will be ready for bookings in January at 2011 Crystal Drive, operator JLL Experience Management announced in a press release today (Thursday).
Damages from a burst pipe at Arlington County’s government headquarters have caused several public meetings to relocate and reduced hours at Courthouse Library.
Flooding at 2100 Clarendon Blvd resulted in “extensive water damage to portions of multiple floors of the Bozman Government Center, including the Arlington County Board Room,” county spokesperson Ryan Hudson told ARLnow.
Arlington leaders say they haven’t forgotten they owe the Crystal City area a library.
“It’s on our to-do list,” County Manager Mark Schwartz said at the County Board’s Feb. 22 meeting.
Arlington Independent Media has paid a visit to the county’s radio room, but the organization’s FM station isn’t back on the air just yet.
The county allowed the struggling nonprofit to access its transmission room — with supervision — today (Thursday), county spokesperson David Barrera told ARLnow this afternoon.
Plans for over 1,200 additional homes have been added to an already sizeable proposal to expand Pentagon City’s RiverHouse development.
JBG Smith now proposes to add a whopping 2,785 housing units to the apartment complex on S. Joyce Street — a hefty increase to a recent proposal draft that called for 1,515 more units.
Two largely vacant office buildings in Crystal City are set to become a hotel and an apartment building.
Property owner JBG Smith announced today that it has filed an application under a new Arlington County “adaptive reuse” policy that would re-purpose 550,000 square feet of empty office space.
A new 420-unit apartment building in Crystal City has begun leasing.
The Zoe, a 19-story tower at 2051 S. Bell Street, is one of two buildings replacing the former Crystal Plaza One office building at 2001 Richmond Highway.
