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Silver Line

Nov 15, 2022

Metro opens $3B Silver Line extension

As a cold rain fell around noon Tuesday, leaders from Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority cut the ribbon on the $3 billion second phase of Metro‘s Silver Line, extending rail service 11.4 miles to six stations and stretching into Loudoun County. Minutes later, they crowded onto a 7000-series train […]

Metro’s forthcoming Silver Line extension is prompting major development and commercial interest in Reston Town Center and other properties. Rendering by Steven G. Hall/Boston Properties
Jun 28, 2022

Silver lining

As the long-delayed phase two opening of Metro‘s Silver Line extension is set for later this year in western Fairfax and Loudoun counties, a development boom is following on the train’s wheels. Reston and Herndon, as well as eastern Loudoun, have already attracted big corporate tenants to millions of square feet of office space, retail […]

Delays in Silver Line Phase 2 could see the 23-mile Metro extension postponing its early 2022 launch target. Photo by Will Schermerhorn
Jul 30, 2021

Silver Line will miss Labor Day target

Problems plugging Silver Line Phase 2 into the rest of the Washington transit system are delaying the project’s transfer from the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). The transfer’s target date was Labor Day, but it’s not clear how long the transfer will be delayed, according to Marcia McAllister, […]

Aerial view of proposed Rivana at Innovation Station development. Rendering courtesy Loudoun Economic Development
Mar 31, 2021

Loudoun announces major mixed-use development along Silver Line

Loudoun Economic Development unveiled plans Wednesday for Rivana at Innovation Station, a 4.4 million-square-foot mixed-use development adjacent to Metro‘s Silver Line extension on a site Loudoun once proposed for Amazon.com Inc.’s HQ2 East Coast headquarters. Rivana is the first phase of Innovation Station, a 103-acre development to be built on the border of Fairfax and […]

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