(RECAP: Chesterfield County’s commitment to helping revitalize its older neighborhoods was on show last weekend in an effort to place tools and information in the hands of residents. The county’s 3-year-ancient Revitalization Office and the citizen-led Revitalize Our Communities Committee were joined on Saturday by expert speakers, workshop presenters and vendors for the sixth annual edition of the award-winning Empowering Neighborhoods Forum at the Career and Technical Center @ Hull.)

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(RECAP: Fairfax County supervisors on Feb. 14 unanimously approved a rezoning and final development plot that will allow Capital Automotive Real Estate Services (aka CARS LLC) to build Dominion Square West, a 1.7-million-square-foot development along Spring Hill Road in the north end of Tysons. The elongated, 7.63-acre property stretches west from Leesburg Pike near the Spring Hill Station on Metro’s Silver Line. The developer will construct six buildings, including a pair of up-to-400-foot-tall office buildings, which would be located near the Metro station; 90,000 square feet of retail space; and two multi-family residential towers with up to 1,150 units, 20 percent of which will be affordable housing.)

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(RECAP: Arlington County Board Chair Jay Fisette will not seek re-election this year, capping two decades of service on the Board. Fisette, who first took office in 1998, is currently the longest-serving Board member. In a phone interview today, he said he has been weighing for months whether to run for another term.)

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