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Port City Dispatches: Arlandria Redevelopment, Bike Lanes, T.C. Williams Lights and New Restaurants

A look back at the week's biggest stories concerning Alexandria.

Here are some of the week's important, interesting and fun stories concerning Alexandria and its people.

From Alexandria Patch sites:

Arlandria Redevelopment Project Could Get Rolling in 2014 — By Drew Hansen

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Alexandria’s Director of Planning and Zoning said the city is hopeful the redevelopment of the Mount Vernon Village Center in Arlandria can begin in 2014, more than two years after the project was approved.

“We’re hopeful that Mount Vernon Village Center will start construction sooner rather than later,” Faroll Hamer said at Saturday’s public hearing before City Council. “We think we’ll have more news about that maybe in the coming year.”

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Council will receive an annual report on a wide range of projects and endeavors in Arlandria in January.

According to a recent city report on Arlandria, the redevelopment project team is preparing its final site plan submittal and anticipates starting construction in late 2014.

Impart Exhibition at Torpedo Factory: Ceramics Offers Hands-On Healing for Veterans — By Bettina Lanyi, The Washington Post

In the sculpture at the Art League’s Impart ceramics exhibition, twisted, chunky plumes of dark clay emerge from the top of a man’s head. The face grimaces in torment; the shapes are swirling, grotesque.

“They’re demons,” said Jon Meadows, who made “Headache.” “I wanted to do demons blowing out of its head. Because everyone’s got things in their head they’re trying to get out. Headaches, anything. You know?”

“Headache” is one of 25 pieces on view in the Impart program’s first exhibition on display at the Alexandria Art League’s Torpedo Factory gallery. Impart, an acronym for injured military personnel art, is a collaboration between the Art League and Fort Belvoir military base offering studio time and instruction in ceramics every Wednesday afternoon for recently injured military personnel in Fort Belvoir’s Wounded Warriors program. Few of the six to nine participants the program draws each week — eight have pieces in the exhibit — have backgrounds in art, and most had never worked with clay before.

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