AEDP News

ALX in the News: Week of September 30th

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

  • Hekemian pitches mixed-use for Alexandria’s Beauregard corridor – Washington Business Journal
  • Development on the Fast Track: Where Alexandria is Building – Alexandria Living Magazine
  • Alexandria could force this asphalt plant to shut down, to ease the path for new development. Its owners want to stay. – Washington Business Journal
  • What’s in a name?: ‘National Landing’ could become reality in Arlington – WJLA
  • Will Amazon’s HQ2 Cause Housing Bubbles in Arlington and Alexandria? – Home Buying Institute
  • Overwhelmingly positive’ feedback to Innovation Campus plans – Collegiate Times

ECONOMY & COMMUNITY

  • Arlington and Alexandria split in the 1870s. Could Amazon bring them together? – Washington Post
  • Alexandria Tourism Sets New Records – Alexandria Living Magazine
  • AWS Educate broadens its partnership with Virginia schools – Washington Business Journal
  • Alexandria tourism spending hits record high – Alexandria Times
  • Chamber of commerce releases 2020 legislative agenda – Alexandria Times
  • Join a Committee to Claim Alexandria’s Equal Justice Initiative Monument – The Zebra
  • Alexandria School Board nixes 2nd high school, votes to expand TC Williams – WTOP
  • Managing ‘The Amazon Effect’: Arlington & Alexandria leaders plan rare joint meeting – WJLA
  • Alexandria seeks input on proposed noise control law revisions – WTOP

BUSINESS & RETAIL