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  • ArborRow Block A Building 1, 24-story apartment, from FDP by Shalom Baranes Associates Architects and Parker Rodriguez, Inc Planning. Click to enlarge
  • Photo of bike commute via flickr Seth W.
  • Could this be the future location of Dogtopia's Headquarters in Tysons? The current flagship store sits within the Georgelas Spring Hill Station redevelopment.
  • Around the Corner today; The Washington Post ran a story this week about Capital One’s plans for its headquarters in Tysons. The story notes that Capital One received rezoning approval only a few months ago, and is now asking to switch where their marquee headquarter building will go, and...

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  • On Wednesday May 1, 2012 my family received a letter from FCPS Advanced Academics Department stating that our rising 4th grader had been found eligible for level IV services. Level IV, according to the FCPS website; provides full time academic placement for highly gifted children.  She currently attends Cunningham...

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  • Tysons has seen over a dozen major rezoning applications, one third of which have been approved or are near approval. With tens of millions of square feet in new development in the pipeline it becomes difficult to review the individual components and parcels that are contained within each major...

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  • If you didn’t hear today was Bike to Work Day, an annual event that challenges commuters to find a way out of the car and reconnected to the neighborhood via two wheels. If you did hear about Bike to Work Day, and participated, we want to know how it...

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  • For many business experts and corporate heads the only asset that the Washington Metro area has going for it is federal contracting. They look at the 3rd largest consumer base, with the highest aggregate education and financial strength of any comparable region, and can’t see past the idea that...

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Avoiding Retrofit Costs of Urban Farming

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May 9, 2012
RoofTopFarm-Brooklyn

A preview story of our next publication (May 14th) My experience in land development has taught me a lot about planning, developers, and the economics of a project but one thing I have always questioned is why more clients would throw away money that could be available to them with proper design. I saw...
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The Tysons Corner – Issue #3

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May 7, 2012
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Our 3rd issue investigates cities and how they are the engines of our economy, through tax revenue, redevelopment, and investment. We also have a review of Maple Avenue restaurant in Vienna and a review of Fairfax County Parks Department’s new blog website. Thank you to the talented photographers who contributed this week.   Open...
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Fairfax County Park Authority Gets Talking

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May 3, 2012
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A preview story of our next publication (May 7th) If you have been a resident of Fairfax County for a while you might have noticed we have a lot of park land in our county. Between the recreational parks for little league teams and adults to the natural preserves and trails that wind through...
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The Connection Newspaper Sends the Wrong Message

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May 2, 2012
Avalon

A preview story of our next publication (May 7th) Yesterday the Connection Newspaper ran a story about the plans for Tysons Corner, and how the recession has evidently stopped all plans. “But now in 2012, the hopes of that glorious vision have run into the reality of a post recession Northern Virginia and the...
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A Way Forward With Roads

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May 1, 2012
Italian Plaza Painting

Open publication - Free publishing - More land use
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1st Annual Taste of Vienna

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April 29, 2012
Taste of Vienna

We want to say the 1st Annual Taste of Vienna was impressive and just shows how much culinary talent exists in this region. We loved everything we ate and are sad we didn’t have photos of it all. If you do have more photos from the great vendors please feel free to link it...
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Land Use Similarities of NOVA and Palo Alto, CA

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April 27, 2012
Suburban Land Use Vs Urban Land Use

Have you ever been in a conversation with someone who complained that housing prices are just too high in this region? Whether you are a home buyer or renter, everyone at one point has had some sticker shock at looking at the cost to have a roof over their head in Northern Virginia. It’s...
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Taste of Vienna This Saturday

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April 26, 2012
TasteofVienna

You may know that we at TheTysonsCorner are a bit envious of the established neighborhood feel of Vienna. First we visited Church Street and fell in love with the food, then we walked around the town and found when the nut-job commuters avoiding HOV restrictions on I-66 got outta town it became a pedestrian...
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Misconceptions Of The Silver Line Project

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April 24, 2012
MetroTunnel

Recently I viewed one of the hundreds of news stories on the Silver Line Phase 2, which is going to Dulles Airport one way or another, and realized that a lot of people are just plain backwards or misinformed on what the decisions on the project really mean. I pulled some of the comments...
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Alegria Showcases the Community Based Approach of the Bazins

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April 21, 2012
Walls

Tysons Corner and Vienna have always had a contentious relationship struggling between traffic concerns, obstruction of growth vs preservation of historic regions, and the battle between home grown food and commercial giants. During the sprawl era of Tysons when no thought was given to what the future may become Vienna played the role of...
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100 Followers… Come On You Know You Wanna Follow Too

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April 19, 2012
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Well it took a couple months, but we’ve gotten to 100 twitter followers, and are averaging about 200 hits per day, so that is good news, but we want great news. We hope by June to have 200 followers, it might be ambitious but with some support, word of mouth, and continued exclusive content TheTysonsCorner we’ll...
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