UPDATE 9/2011: Pulte Homes has finally set up their sales office for MetroWest off of Lee Highway (Route 29) where they are building front load and rear load garage townhomes starting in the low $525,000 range. Many are already sold as of today (9/26). This is an excellent walk-to-Vienna-Metro location!
Land Development next to Vienna Metro Station
Original Post: That means taking down trees, and then grade the land… so there wasn’t any visible sewer or road work from my vantage point at the Vienna Metro. I will try and keep this post updated when I know more. Thanks!
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Town of Vienna officials, Vienna and Fairfax youth sports organizations, and residents have expressed their concerns for years over the impact that MetroWest, a mixed-use development project, will have on the lifestyle of the surrounding communities due to the high number of new residents seeking services such as playing-time on athletic fields.
MetroWest will be located on 55 acres located just south of the Vienna – Fairfax – GMU Metro Rail Station. This project is part of a Smart Growth or Green initiative with a more urban design concept to promote use of public transit with a stated goal of reducing the number of car “trips” per day.
But just recently, on July 13th, 2009, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to allow the developers to substitute 700,000 square feet of residential space with an equal amount of office space.
And the big adjustment…
What caught my eye was the sharp reduction in housing units. According to the developer’s web site (circa 2004), there were 2,248 residential units planned and approved, but this change has reduced that number to 1,174 residential housing units. Since the plan was created in the midpoint of the decade there has been a major correction in the housing market.
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Hi – Do you know anything more about MetroWest? I called Pulte today & the customer service rep says that plan to start selling homes in summer 2010 “unless it gets bumped back again.” They’ve also added a sentence to that effect on their website: http://www.pulte.com/communities/va/fairfax/metrowest/index.aspx
Austin – I drove past that project last week and it still looks like a ghost town. MetroWest was really planned when the market saw no limit, but we all know too well that the market did an about-face icing any new projects. The condos down the road at the Dunn Loring Metro Station are still trying to sell out… which impacts the current market environment for new projects. (Plus they are funding existing projects with the limited cash-on-hand).
On the positive, when they officially start MetroWest in Fairfax at the Vienna Metro Station then it will be a great opportunity to pick up a walk-able property with long term value potential. So I plan on keeping an eye out and will generate a new post when it really begins to be developed.
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I just talked to Pulte and the rep said orders will be taken in Jan 2011. They still don’t know the floor plans or # of apts v. townhomes. It doesn’t look like this project will get off the ground…times have changed.
I stopped by to see where they are in the land development phase of MetroWest and took a new photo. In my opinion, I bet (not really) that they put a sales trailer there in January or February 2011.
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Thanks for sharing the latest on MetroWest development. Apparently the main MetroWest website (http://metrowestva.com/about/timeline.html) is 6 years behind with the project timelines and as of today it doesn’t even accept comments/ feedback. So much for listening to citizen feedback.