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Rural, Private Club is Dream Project for F.C. Architecture Firm

BY BRIAN INDRE

FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS

Outdoors enthusiasts in the DMV area often head west toward Shenandoah National Park for a quick escape from the city. Although now that wineries and breweries have become ubiquitous in Northern Virginia, people are also flocking to the countryside to enjoy a beverage and good food with picturesque views. Falls Church design and build firm GreenSpur, Inc. is looking to help them find the right spot.

The firm, which is located on Broad Street, built and designed a getaway on a 50-acre site that sits along the Appalachian Trail in Marshall, Virginia as part of its Lost Whiskey Club. It features a modern farmhouse and amenities to take in the surrounding landscape and showcase their whiskey.

The project took place during the pandemic and was completed last spring.

Mark Turner, the owner and founder of Greenspur, said that he and his team of architects and builders are especially inspired by place and experience.

“We’re always designing and thinking about where you have your dinner, your drinks, your coffee, so we wanted to commoditize the experience of gathering,” said Turner. “We are also bourbon fans, so to us it seemed congruent to use bourbon as the glue that connects people and conversations with outdoor space and great experience.”

He mentioned that the Greenspur team really loves a project that they can do all by themselves because it gives them all the control and room for creativity. That’s why they chose to build the project up on a mountain to give it an exclusive feel — Turner added that they only do private events and gatherings, with specific requests.

“It is not a walk in off the street club, it’s meant to be a private boutique exclusive experience and by invite only,” he said.

This isn’t an insignificant mountain out in the western part of Virginia either. Lost Whiskey Club looks out on Lost Mountain (where their name originates), which was once purchased by George Washington and was where

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panies in the U.S. that are now working on it, and said he’s creating a bipartisan caucus in Congress to focus on its development.

It will, once the technology is perfected to consistently generate the energy that can fire out of a nuclear fusion reaction, “replace all fossil fuels.”

He even explained how, if something went wrong, the result would only be to have the reaction cease for lack of pressure. Its raw fuel, he said, is sea water.

In fact, the promise of fusion has been around for decades, but seldom held to be practical, at least not for the time being.

But the times are changing, and to have a prominent U.S. lawmaker talking about it now may quietly constitute one of the biggest promises for humanity of our generation.

Still, electric vehicles remain an urgent mandate, with a major switch over from internal combustion engines to electric cars needed by 2030 or 2035.

“Climate change is very real and urgent,” Beyer said, which has something to do with not holding back on speaking out about the potential of fusion.

“Life has changed” as a result of the pandemic, “and it will be different,” Beyer predicted. Now, he said, a “sensible immigration policy is the only way to keep America strong.”

The labor force that the nation needs to fully recover and prosper will require it, he said.

As for the final U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, he said the process will be “painful,” and “there is no easy way out.” Afghanistan, he reminded those on the call, “has been known as a ‘graveyard of empires’ since Alexander the Great, and despite all the aid from the U.S. in the course of a 20-year engagement there, “the Afghanis remain incapable of fielding an effective fighting force.” It is going to be difficult relocating tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers and their allies to the U.S.

He said that, domestically, there needs to be a huge push to win passage of H.R. 1, the socalled “For the People” election reform act that would have the effect of overriding scores of voter suppression bills being passed in Republican controlled state legislatures across the U.S.

The 2010 “Citizens United” decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that equated corporations with people was “one of the worst decisions ever, and H.R. 1 is the best shot at reversing that.”

He hailed the child tax credit, which will begin next month to put money into the hands of struggling households, $300 for every child under six and $250 for every child aged six to 17.

However, it will expire at the end of this year, unless it can be extended for five years, or better, permanently.

Rental mortgage assistance is most effective coming from the state, and his office should be contacted for help with it (703658-5404).

Meanwhile, the IRS is backed up by 32 million returns now, and the Small Business Administration is also way backed up in getting out emergency loans.

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While as many as a billion people on the planet have now received at least one vaccination shot against Covid-19, “That means that 6.9 billion have not, and there is a clear concern for mutations of the virus in that context which could render the current vaccines ineffective.”

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sit-oriented option that will also lead to more Metro rail, bike and pedestrian uses in the area.

Under plans underway for the last five years, the project will be linked to the 10-acre megadevelopment project now beginning to get underway at the site of the former George Mason High School in Falls Church.

That school has now been demolished to make way for the megadevelopment, even as the brand new, state of the art Meridian High School has risen right next door and will welcome a full return of students next month.

The Fairfax Board vote Tuesday impacted two of the three parcels that will be developed in tandem at the site, the first being the 24-acre WMATA parcel that includes the rail station, the 7.5-acre Virginia Tech site that is currently being leased to the university by the City of Falls Church and that the university is committed to buying under the terms of the lease in the near future, and the 9.8-acre City of Falls Church land upon which the recently-demolished high school exists.

The three adjacent parcels combined total 41.3 acres that will be tied together by a boulevard running through their middle from Route 7 at Chestnut Street to the Metro rail station. The linking road, now known as a “commons,” was originally crafted by the Falls Church Gateway Partners team of EYA, Hoffman and Regency to be the central unifying feature of the Falls Church 10-acre development.

But from the beginning, it was envisioned being extended through the Virginia Tech and WMATA properties for a seamless run to the rail station. Tuesday’s vote now indicates that will become a reality.

Meanwhile, the Falls Church City Council was divided in its vote Monday night over granting modifications to the plans for its 10 acres. The changes have to be with the exit from the project of a partner for development of its senior living component.

Upon a deal with a new partner, Trammel Crow, the feasibility of the project will now require the addition of a new floor on the senior living building and some as-yet to be determined voluntary concessions, such as it pertains to affordable housing.

The still tentative nature of that plan, which calls for adding one floor from 14 to 15 stories and an increase in total square footage from 225,000 to 260,000, caused three members of the F.C. Council to vote against a preliminary approval, leaving it to “yes” votes by Mayor David Tarter, Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly, David Snyder and Debbie Hiscott to move ahead, while Phil Duncan, Letty Hardi and Ross Litkenhous voted “no,” for a split 4-3 vote approval.

THE FAIRFAX BOARD OF SUPERVISORS’ approval Tuesday night means there will be a main strip that links the entire West End project to the West Falls Church Metro Station, making it accessible by bike and pedestrians as well as cars. (Photo: News-Press)

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