In the News
Highlighting news featuring businesses in Alexandria and events around the City each week- whether you are starting a business in Alexandria, or are already part of our community, stay on top of local economic development interest items here!
REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT
- Innovative Idea: Americans Are Coming To Rescue Their Own Homeless – CMR News
- How Much Rent Costs Near Alexandria Metro Stops – Del Ray Patch
- $150 Million in Transportation Projects Funded – Alexandria Living Magazine
- Old Town bus barn to be redeveloped – Alexandria Times [Page 4]
- WMATA to build new headquarters on Eisenhower – Alexandria Times [Page 8]
- City sells $5.3 million worth of Old Town public property – Alexandria Times [Page 12]
- Trammell Crow Residential buys Alexandria’s Royal Street bus garage. Big changes are coming. – Washington Business Journal
- Home Prices Continue Their Upward March – Alexandria Living Magazine
ECONOMY & COMMUNITY
- Maps Reveal Where the Creative Class Is Growing – City Lab
- Metro’s temporary closure of Yellow & Blue lines impact Alexandria businesses – WUSA9
- Amazon’s arrival in Virginia adds stress to strained housing market – Curbed
- Alexandria Summer Restaurant Week: Old Town Eateries Participate – Old Town Patch
- City Academy Applications Available – Alexandria Living Magazine
- Uber’s JUMP e-scooters land in Arlington, Alexandria – WTOP
- Here’s how D.C.-area residents get around town – Washington Post
- Governor Northam Announces Commonwealth’s Unemployment Rate Drops to 2.9% – Virginia Governor’s Office
- Stephanie Landrum named 2019 Business Leader of the Year – Alexandria Times [Page 4]
- Stephanie Landrum Named 2019 Alexandria Business Leader of the Year – The Zebra
BUSINESS & RETAIL
- Oak Steakhouse Opens In Old Town Alexandria – Old Town Patch
- Oak Steakhouse joins Alexandria’s sizzling restaurant scene – Alexandria Times
- Aslin Beer Co. Opens Brewery in Alexandria – Alexandria Living Magazine
- Aslin Beer opens Alexandria taproom – WTOP
- It just got a whole lot easier to find one of the area’s best and buzziest craft beers – Washington Post
- Del Ray’s All-Day Beer Garden is Now Open with Kid and Dog-Friendly Menus (Plus Tacos for Adults) – Washingtonian
- Pioneering Cocktail Bar PX Will Close in Alexandria After 14 Years – Washingtonian
- For Five Coffee Roasters to Open in Alexandria – Alexandria Living Magazine
- Sidewalk Sale Announced For August In Alexandria – Old Town Patch
- 10th Annual Alexandria Summer Sidewalk Sale – Visit Alexandria