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West Falls Church on track for $1.2 billion transformation
Developers are expected to break ground this month on the first of three mixed-use projects near the West Falls Church Metro station with a total investment of about $1.2 billion. Each piece comes together to complete a puzzle that will transform about 40 acres of vacant land, parking lots and Virginia Tech’s Northern Virginia Center […]
Skanska tops out mixed-use building in McLean
Heming at 1800 Chain Bridge Road, a 28-story mixed-use building in McLean, has now been “topped out,’ Skanska announced March 23. Representatives from Skanska, CallisonRTKL, IMEG Corp., and Skanska’s construction partners commemorated the construction milestone by signing a steel beam and placing it at the highest structural feature of the building, a celebration referred to [...]
Arlington’s The Millennium apartment building sells for $200.5M
An affiliate of Washington, D.C.-based The UIP Companies Inc., in partnership with New Jersey-based furnished housing company Churchill Living, purchased The Millennium apartment building in Arlington for $200.5 million on Jan. 20, Arlington property records show. Located at 1130 S. Fair St., near Metropolitan Park — the first phase of Amazon.com Inc.’s HQ2 — the […]
JBG Smith breaks ground on two mixed-use towers in Arlington
Maryland-based developer JBG Smith Properties announced Tuesday that it had started construction on two mixed-use towers in National Landing. The multifamily towers, located at 2000 and 2001 S. Bell St., will bring 775 rental apartments and nearly 27,000 square feet of retail space to National Landing. “The start of construction at 2000 and 2001 S. […]
Breeden to develop $27M mixed-use project near RVA’s Diamond
Virginia Beach-based The Breeden Co. intends to build a $27 million mixed-use development, Duplex Station on Hermitage, on the former Cobb Lumber site near Richmond‘s Scott’s Addition neighborhood and less than a mile from The Diamond ballpark, the company announced Monday. Located at 2300 Hermitage Road, the project is slated to include 142 apartments and […]
65 acres in Greene County sell for $4.55M
Sixty-five acres in Ruckersville, in Greene County, sold for $4.55 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced Monday. Merrit Greene LLC bought the acreage, located at 7070 Seminole Trail, from LAMM Properties LLC for future mixed-use development. John Pritzlaff and Jenny Stoner with Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer handled the sale on behalf of the […]
Charleston developer breaks ground on mixed-use building in Richmond
Charleston, South Carolina-based real estate development company The Beach Co. announced Tuesday that it had broken ground on a 1.65-acre mixed-use development in Richmond called Tidewater, which has an expected completion of spring 2023. Located in the Manchester neighborhood at 700 Semmes Ave., the six-story development will have about 266,854 square feet of apartments, about […]
GreenCity arena hopes to draw sports, music acts
When developers unsuccessfully pitched Navy Hill, a $1.5 billion mixed-use project and arena that sought to reinvent Richmond‘s downtown, they posed a question: If a major draw like Beyoncé came to town, where would she perform? Now those same developers are aiming to host artists like Justin Timberlake, Green Day and John Legend at GreenCity, […]
Metro unveils major Falls Church redevelopment agreement
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has signed an agreement to redevelop the West Falls Church Metro Station site as a more than 1 million-square-foot mixed-use development. Construction is expected to begin in 2023. The agreement was reached with FGCP-Metro LLC, a joint real estate development partnership involving Bethesda, Maryland-based EYA LLC, Washington, D.C.-based Hoffman [&[...]
Chesterfield EDA eyes mixed-use project at Spring Rock Green
The Chesterfield County Economic Development Authority has proposed purchasing Spring Rock Green — a 42-acre property on the northwest corner of Midlothian Turnpike, near Chippenham Parkway — for $16 million to create a mixed-use development. The property is located between the Stonebridge Shopping Center and The Boulder’s Office Park. The first phase of the project […]
Fairfax real estate developer Milt Peterson dies
Real estate developer Milton V. Peterson, founder and chairman of the Fairfax-based Peterson Cos., died early Wednesday at his Fairfax County home at the age of 85. Peterson was known for developing major real estate projects across the Washington, D.C., metro area, including National Harbor in Prince George’s County, Maryland. “Milt would not accept ‘no’ […]
Danville’s White Mill to be redeveloped into mixed-use project
Danville’s Industrial Development Authority and The Alexander Co. are teaming up to redevelop the city’s White Mill on the Dan River as a mixed-use commercial and residential project, with $62.5 million invested in the first phase, city officials announced Monday. Local officials have long been seeking developers for the site. Interest in the building, which […]
