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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.
More:
- T&ES Director: Alexandria Will Move Forward with King Street Bike Lanes — By Drew Hansen
- Lights at T.C. Williams: 'Times Have Changed' — By Drew Hansen
- Alexandria Police Announce Ron Kirby Reward Fund — By Drew Hansen
- Restaurants Proving Part of Waterfront 'Revolution' — By Drew Hansen
- MGM Lands Casino License for National Harbor — By Drew Hansen
- Alexandria Councilman Digs into Broadband — By Drew Hansen
- Police Investigating Duke Street Bank Robbery — By Drew Hansen
- Developer Eyes Condos for Former Washington Street Offices — By Drew Hansen
- AHC to Break Ground on Reed Avenue Complex in February — By Drew Hansen
- Alexandria Democrats, Republicans Send Off Registrar Tom Parkins — By Drew Hansen
- Mango Mike's to Closes — By Drew Hansen
- Black Fire Service Professionals of Alexandria Host Christmas Party for Underprivileged Children — By Drew Hansen
- Slaters Market Celebrates First Year in Business — By Drew Hansen
- Fire Crews Respond to Report of Smoke at Arlandria Shopping Center — By Drew Hansen
- Ban the Box: Bill Would Ax Criminal History Questions on Job Applications — By Jason Spencer
- Decriminalizing Suicide: Bills Aim to Focus Conversation on Mental Health — By Jason Spencer
- Del Ray Business Association Hands Out Star Awards — By Drew Hansen
- Local Post Offices Extend Hours for the Holiday Season — By Jane Lemons
- Letter to the Editor: Meehan on King Street Traffic-Calming Plan — By Kellie Meehan
From elsewhere:
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.
More:
- Elderly Alexandria Woman Exploited by House Cleaner, Police Say — By Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post
- Bike Thefts Rise in D.C. Region as Cycling Soars in Popularity — By Rachel Weiner and Lynh Bui, The Washington Post
- Breaking the Bank at La Fromagerie — By Tim Carman, The Washington Post
- City Rolls Out Smartphone App for Parking Meters — By Erich Wagner, Alexandria Times
- Charles Barrett Teacher Receives 2012 Presidential Award For Excellence In Mathematics and Science Teaching — AlexandriaNews.Org
- Alexandria Schools See Rising Poverty In the Classroom — By Michael Lee Pope, Alexandria Gazette Packet
- Vintage Ornaments Recapture Holiday Magic for Old Town Resident — By Jeanne Theismann, Alexandria Gazette Packet
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