Showing posts with label Windsor Estates VA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windsor Estates VA. Show all posts
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Possible Interest in Buying Windsor Estates
One firm has expressed interest in buying and developing Windsor Estates. However, this is not going to happen for at least two years. My goal is $60/square foot and to have five potential buyers. Windsor Estates is located near the Springfield Transportation Center. I am confident the sale will eventually go through.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Funding of Pedestrian/Bike Bridges
Editorial: Fairfax County is both a taxing authority and tax deductible entity as all government entities are tax deductible!!!!!Motivated bikers and pedestrian could make a donations to a special fund with Fairfax County transportation. This fund needs to be both embezzlement and diversion proof.This mean Fairfax can not divert or borrow from the fund for any purpose. It should clearly set up so that any diversion or borrowing results in an immediate arrest. Developers need to make tax deductible donations. The bridges from Metro Park to Shoppers mall to Lane Elementary to Windsor Estates and the one crossing the metro RR from Barry rd to Springfield will create a nice continuous economic stimulus the will provide a continuous multiplier effect. A similar bridge crossing Beulah RD from Wegmans is necessary. The bridge in the photo is the one that crosses 95. These bridges will cause safe transit for bikers and pedestrians . People complain no funds are available. Tax deductible donations by bikers and pedestrian enthusiasts and developer contributions are the answer. Mixed use is happening; we need safe transit for bikers and pedestrians. This includes an extension of the bike path North and South of the RR where it intersects Barry Road.!!!!!!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wegmans is coming to Beulah and Telegraph
Wegmans Food Markets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a 79-store U.S. regional supermarket chain with stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland. In 2008 and 2007 Fortune ranked Wegmans the third best company to work for in the United States. Wegmans has appeared on Fortune’s annual "100 Best Companies to Work For" list since its inception in 1998, and has ranked among the top 10 for six consecutive years. Food Network recognized it with its award for Best Grocery Store in 2007.
Mixed use is happening and Wegmans is coming to Beulah and Telegraph.
Editorial: A bridge needs to built to accommodate bikers and pedestrian when they cross Beulah Rd from Wegman's to the other side where their customers live. There is large residential area opposite Wegman. Beulah Rd is going to be impossible to cross due the increasing traffic!!!!!A pedestrian/bike bridge as sturdy as the one that goes across 95 is the only answer!!!!!
Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a 79-store U.S. regional supermarket chain with stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland. In 2008 and 2007 Fortune ranked Wegmans the third best company to work for in the United States. Wegmans has appeared on Fortune’s annual "100 Best Companies to Work For" list since its inception in 1998, and has ranked among the top 10 for six consecutive years. Food Network recognized it with its award for Best Grocery Store in 2007.
Mixed use is happening and Wegmans is coming to Beulah and Telegraph.
Editorial: A bridge needs to built to accommodate bikers and pedestrian when they cross Beulah Rd from Wegman's to the other side where their customers live. There is large residential area opposite Wegman. Beulah Rd is going to be impossible to cross due the increasing traffic!!!!!A pedestrian/bike bridge as sturdy as the one that goes across 95 is the only answer!!!!!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
The Best Spot for 6,200 Army Workers
The Best Spot for 6,200 Army Workers
Sunday, September 14, 2008; B08
The Army is nearing a decision about where at least 6,200 employees of the Defense Department's Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) and other Defense employees should work when the agency moves out of leased space in Crystal City, as mandated by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC). Two sites in Alexandria and one in Springfield are under consideration for the WHS offices. The Springfield site -- which is occupied by warehouses operated by the General Services Administration (GSA) -- is the only one that offers the Army a secure and accessible location for its current and future needs, meets BRAC-related goals, and saves taxpayers money.
Of primary importance today is security, and the Springfield site offers a far more secure location because it is much larger than the Victory Center site off Eisenhower Avenue and the Mark Center site off Seminary Road. The Springfield site has 70 acres. The Victory Center encompasses 16 acres (which had been home to the Army Materiel Command until it moved in 2003 to more secure quarters at Fort Belvoir), and the Mark Center proposal includes about 24 acres. Because of its size, the Springfield site is the only one that can offer the full 148-foot setbacks that Defense Department officials require for secure locations.
Larger setbacks mean less taxpayer money is needed to make buildings secure. Further, the Springfield site is large enough to accommodate future expansion, and land is available on adjacent privately owned sites in case contractors want to locate facilities nearby.
The Springfield location also offers far better access for drivers, carpoolers and those who use public transportation. The GSA warehouses are close to Interstates 95 and 395, the Capital Beltway and the Fairfax County and Franconia-Springfield parkways. Springfield's location as the southernmost option, and its proximity to all these major highways is important because Army analysis has shown that most WHS employees live south of the site.
The GSA site also is less than half a mile from the Joe Alexander Transportation Center, which includes the Franconia-Springfield Metro station (terminus of the Blue Line, which also serves the Pentagon), a Virginia Railway Express stop, and commuter and intercity bus hubs. The Mark Center and Victory Center sites cannot match this multimodal transportation infrastructure.
Congress specified that underused military or federal government properties should be used for Defense Department operations moved as a result of BRAC recommendations. The Springfield site is the only one of the three options that meets that congressional intent. It already is owned by the federal government, while the Alexandria sites are privately owned.
Federal taxpayers would pay to buy the land in Alexandria, and the City of Alexandria would lose millions in revenue if either property was removed from the tax rolls -- at the same time that local governments are faced with tight budgets and the possibility of having to cut public services. The GSA site also is much closer to Fort Belvoir, which is important because the site chosen by the Army will become an administrative component of the post.
Sitting a short walk from one of the largest transportation centers in the Washington area, and in the middle of one of the most dynamic economies in the nation, GSA warehouses are no longer the best use of that site. Putting the Defense Department's Washington Headquarters Services in a quality, secure, accessible office setting would be a far better use of the land and a far better investment of taxpayer dollars than the other options under consideration.
-- Gerald L. Gordon
Vienna
The writer is president and chief executive officer of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority.
Sunday, September 14, 2008; B08
The Army is nearing a decision about where at least 6,200 employees of the Defense Department's Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) and other Defense employees should work when the agency moves out of leased space in Crystal City, as mandated by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC). Two sites in Alexandria and one in Springfield are under consideration for the WHS offices. The Springfield site -- which is occupied by warehouses operated by the General Services Administration (GSA) -- is the only one that offers the Army a secure and accessible location for its current and future needs, meets BRAC-related goals, and saves taxpayers money.
Of primary importance today is security, and the Springfield site offers a far more secure location because it is much larger than the Victory Center site off Eisenhower Avenue and the Mark Center site off Seminary Road. The Springfield site has 70 acres. The Victory Center encompasses 16 acres (which had been home to the Army Materiel Command until it moved in 2003 to more secure quarters at Fort Belvoir), and the Mark Center proposal includes about 24 acres. Because of its size, the Springfield site is the only one that can offer the full 148-foot setbacks that Defense Department officials require for secure locations.
Larger setbacks mean less taxpayer money is needed to make buildings secure. Further, the Springfield site is large enough to accommodate future expansion, and land is available on adjacent privately owned sites in case contractors want to locate facilities nearby.
The Springfield location also offers far better access for drivers, carpoolers and those who use public transportation. The GSA warehouses are close to Interstates 95 and 395, the Capital Beltway and the Fairfax County and Franconia-Springfield parkways. Springfield's location as the southernmost option, and its proximity to all these major highways is important because Army analysis has shown that most WHS employees live south of the site.
The GSA site also is less than half a mile from the Joe Alexander Transportation Center, which includes the Franconia-Springfield Metro station (terminus of the Blue Line, which also serves the Pentagon), a Virginia Railway Express stop, and commuter and intercity bus hubs. The Mark Center and Victory Center sites cannot match this multimodal transportation infrastructure.
Congress specified that underused military or federal government properties should be used for Defense Department operations moved as a result of BRAC recommendations. The Springfield site is the only one of the three options that meets that congressional intent. It already is owned by the federal government, while the Alexandria sites are privately owned.
Federal taxpayers would pay to buy the land in Alexandria, and the City of Alexandria would lose millions in revenue if either property was removed from the tax rolls -- at the same time that local governments are faced with tight budgets and the possibility of having to cut public services. The GSA site also is much closer to Fort Belvoir, which is important because the site chosen by the Army will become an administrative component of the post.
Sitting a short walk from one of the largest transportation centers in the Washington area, and in the middle of one of the most dynamic economies in the nation, GSA warehouses are no longer the best use of that site. Putting the Defense Department's Washington Headquarters Services in a quality, secure, accessible office setting would be a far better use of the land and a far better investment of taxpayer dollars than the other options under consideration.
-- Gerald L. Gordon
Vienna
The writer is president and chief executive officer of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority.
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