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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Upping Building Heights, Expanding Green Space, Reston Connection, January 27, 2010


JBG brings latest Fairway Apartments plan to DRB.


By Mike DiCicco




Ben Tompkins, an attorney representing JBG Companies, credited the Reston Association’s Design Review Board (DRB) with much of the plan for the Fairway Apartments redevelopment that he and JBG representatives were presenting to the board last Tuesday, Jan. 19. It was JBG’s third appearance before the group since proposing a redevelopment of the aging townhouse-style apartment community last summer, and Moll said comments from the board, the Reston Planning and Zoning Committee and the public had resulted in a design that pleased county staff, at least initially, although no official staff report had been issued.





The developer still plans to replace the 346 apartments that currently occupy the 19-acre neighborhood with 940 units....

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1 comment:

  1. The 1,000 sq ft units at Fairway Apts are gross square feet. You have to subtract stairwells, elevators, hallways and other building maintenance space from gross square feet to get net square feet. Those 1,000 units will shrink to about 750 sq ft.

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