Tysons Partnership, designated as the Implementation Entity for the Tysons 40-Year Comprehensive Plan and composed of more than 100 member organizations with stakeholder interests in Tysons, celebrated the 10th-anniversary of the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan for Tysons by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.
Fairfax County and Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) officials on March 5 cut a ceremonial ribbon to dedicate the new Jones Branch Connector, which vaults over Interstate 495 to link the eastern and western parts of Tysons.
Tysons Partnership, which is made up of organizations and major employers in the area that want to boost Tysons’ prominence in Northern Virginia, unveiled its new report at an event today to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the region’s Comprehensive Plan.
Ten years into a 40-year redevelopment plan, the Chair of the Tysons Partnership, Jeff Tarae said there’s been good fundamental success; and the goal to make Tysons an urban, walkable city where you can live, work and play is on track for completion by 2050.
No transit route directly connects Fairfax and Montgomery counties, which share miles of border along the Potomac River. That could change, depending on the results of a transit study looking at running bus routes along the Beltway over the single bridge that connects the two counties, the American Legion Bridge.
The Board of Supervisors on Dec. 1 approved a request by the Fairfax County Department of Public Works and Environmental Services to use a specialized procurement method for the upcoming construction of Tysons Fire Station No. 29 and its associated bus-transit facility.
Chief executive Sol Glasner said the proposed cuts “would cause profound economic harm to Tysons and the region’s other urban centers, all of which are dependent on transit.”
Tysons, which only about four square miles total, has a goal of expanding its parkland to meet the demand of a growing population and workforce by 2050. To do that, it’s getting creative.
Creating an environment is as much an art as it is a science, and achieving it requires rethinking decades-old philosophies on return on investment.
Tysons, Virginia—with its towering office buildings and a median household income of $101,587—is probably not first place you think of to find affordable housing, but it is making an effort to provide more options.
