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VDOT unveils final designs for W&OD Trail bridge over Lee Highway
VDOT unveiled final designs for the planned Washington & Old Dominion Trail bridge at a community meeting last week, sketching out more details on the bridge that is designed to offer a safer alternative to the trail’s current crossing at the highway’s intersection with Fairfax Drive.
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Science lab to be included in Arlington Science Focus-key building swap
County school officials are reassuring nervous parents at Arlington Science Focus School that a state-of-the-art science lab will be included as part of a controversial building swap with the Key Immersion School in the next few years.
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Longtime nightlife venue Clarendon Grill to close
Clarendon Grill is closing at the end of the month, the longtime Clarendon nightlife spot announced Monday. It first opened in 1996.
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New pizzeria set to replace Upper Crust on Lee Highway
Old Dominion Pizza Company is now planning to open up in Upper Crust’s old space in Arlington’s Lee Heights shopping center.
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GMU declares a ‘No Scooter Zone’ at its Virginia Square campus
Signs in front of George Mason University’s Arlington campus in Virginia Square direct dockless electric scooter riders to park the vehicles at a nearby bike rack, rather than abandoning them at random.
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Prolific restaurateur Scott Parker plans new barbershop for Ballston
The co-founder of a bevy of businesses throughout Arlington announced in a Facebook post Monday that he plans to help open “Bearded Goat Barber, a premier barbershop specializing in tailored haircuts, hot lather shaves and sculpted beard trims.” in early 2019.
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Federico opens its doors as a successor to Crystal City’s Cafe Italia
Federico Ristorante Italiano, the spiritual successor to Crystal City’s Cafe Italia, is now open for business.
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Arlington’s car decal requirement set to end next year
The County Board voted unanimously Tuesday to end the requirement that owners of vehicles parked in Arlington use a sticker to prove they’ve paid personal property taxes.
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Virginia hospital center expansion set for some changes, but remains primed to advance
Virginia Health Center, and the county’s business community, pressed hard to earn a green light from the County Board to start work on a $250 million expansion that the hospital says it desperately needs. But the Board chose to follow the recommendation of its planners instead, and pushed back a final vote on the project until December.
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DCA staging lot for rideshare drivers prompts community outcry over traffic snarls
People living in neighborhoods around Reagan National Airport say a staging lot for Uber and Lyft drivers is snarling traffic in the area, and Arlington officials are taking new steps to work out some sort of fix.
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Arlington delays expansion of Virginia Hospital Center
The decision to delay Virginia Hospital Center’s expansion comes after neighbors voiced concerns.
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Found Footage show ‘After Dark’ coming to Arlington Drafthouse
The Found Footage Festival is coming to Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse with a new “After Dark” show which compiles 25 years of footage collections into a show that includes live commentary and where-are-they-now updates.
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ACFD taps Northern Virginia’s 1st African-American female battalion chief
Almost 24 years after she answered a radio ad seeking to recruit new firefighters, Tiffanye Wesley has been selected as Arlington’s southern battalion chief.
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Plans coming together for redevelopment of Ballston Harris Teeter
Harris Teeter’s owners are hoping to team up with a Georgia-based developer to build 700 residential units on the site of a former Mercedez Benz dealership in Ballston. All told, the development would include 83,600 square feet of retail on the ground floor of two buildings.
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New casual Italian restaurant coming to Columbia Pike
Josephines Italian Kitchen will have a wood-fired oven, and Wagner said customers can look for a lot of fresh seafood and other classic Italian cuisine options at the restaurant.
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