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Friday, May 14, 2010

Lerner Enterprises sues Fairfax County over north Reston Town Center density, Washington Business Journal, May 14, 2010

UPDATE: The full text of this article is now available here.

UPDATE #2: ...and here is Restonian's take on the Lerner lawsuit, including mourning the loss of the Macaroni Grill.

by Sarah Krouse

A Lerner Enterprises Inc. affiliate is suing Fairfax County over the way the county allots density in the area just north of Reston Town Center.

The entity, Reston Spectrum LLP, filed suit in March in Fairfax County Circuit Court, arguing that it should be able to develop its site to the specifications the county approved in a 2006 conceptual plan.

The Lerner site sits between Route 602 and Fountain Drive and includes retailers such as Harris Teeter, Best Buy and Elizabeth Arden. Lerner wants to transform the 24-acre stretch into as many as 562 residential units and up to 406,000 square feet of retail or office use.

It secured county approval of a finalized conceptual site plan in 2008 using extra density from the neighboring Reston Regional Library, which was deemed a park in 1992, allowing it to transfer density to nearby developers.


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