Bustling Pan Am Shopping Foddie Vienna Metro__Summer Evening Posted by: cafetwinv ()
Date: May 25, 2013 04:43PM
Update: The Mozaic__Merrifield Redevelopment Update Request & Bustling Pan Am Shopping Foodie Vienna Metro
I just found out some new info on the Merrifield Redevelopment Plan where the phase 1 is now complete with the fancy retail add-ons anchored with the new Target Store and other fancy retail places.
The townhouses and Condo's going for $600,000 are not for most of us poor folks obviously who knew that neighborhood few years ago when the multiplex went out of business and at Fairfax Public Acess Community TV Station (Channel 10) still located where it was before but the neighborhood is totally changed of course as a highly intensive ritzy redevelopment called "Mozaic".
I was doing a search just today to see what is in store for the next phase of development for "Mozaic" and I ran into the NY Times article dated in fall of 2012 titled "A Suburban Wasteland in Virginia Gets a Modern Urban Feel".
If anyone wish to read this article as a valuable background, just google that topic and it will pop right up. It features a chat with our Congressman Connolly that is intersting and valuable as we go forward to understand the next phase of "Mozaic" at Merrifiled Redevelopment .
Here are my top 2 questions as what happens at Merrifield has a direct bearing at Bustling Pan Am, where us poorfolks, Friends Producers and used to congregate after we produced our TV Show at FPA TV Station often, sometimes at McDonalds, Pizza Hut, and sometimes at the Pan Cake House at the corner of Pickett Rd and Lee Hwy.
The Merrifield Redevelopment based on this NY Time articles is being done by a developer from South Carolina named Edens.
Here is a brief summary from this NY Times Article:
Summary: The company behind the latest stage in Merrifield’s evolution is Edens, a private retail developer based in Columbia, S.C., that owns more than 130 shopping centers. “This was the right project, in the right place, at the right time, by the right developer,” said Barbara Byron, director of Fairfax County’s Office of Community Revitalization. “The vision that they presented was exactly what the county was looking for as the Merrifield Town Center.”
Follow Up Questions that needs to be discussed yet going forward to 2013:
(01) Is there a plan to include "poor folks" at Merifield Revitalization to make it mixed_income with presence for rich and poor ?
(02) What happended to the plan for 1 Acre Park as part of Mozaic ?
(03) What other greenspace is possible at this "Mozaic" . Can it include a "Healing Garden" twin location nearby perhaps since it's so near the INOVA Fairfax Hospital ?
Anyone else is interested in what happens at Merrifield Redevelopment Mozaic in Phase II, beyond the $600,000 Condors and TH and Ritzy Retail and Cafes that us poor folks can't afford to mingle there now, but we can still meet at the Bustling Pan Am Shopping Mall.
Cafe Twin
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