Tysons Update
With Construction Boom, County Adds Emergency Services in Tysons By Marcia McAllister
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s high-rise, high-density residential and commercial development booms in Tysons, fueled in part by the 2014 arrival of the Silver Line, so has the need for the expansion of emergency services.
Plus, four Metrorail stations: McLean, Tysons Corner Center, Greensboro and Spring Hill.
For proof, just look at The Boro along Route 7 at West Park Drive, the coming expansion by Macerich Corp. at Tysons Corner Center, the Capital One complex and residential projects along Route 123.
Plans are underway to relocate Fire Station 29 from its Spring Hill Road location next to a post office and half block from the Spring Hill Metrorail station to a site next to the Dulles Toll Road/International Drive/Jones Branch Drive/Spring Hill Road intersection. There is no room for expansion at the current one-level station, built in 1978. A previous plan to move the station into a proposed multi-story building near the rail station failed.
Add to that mix the opening of new hotels, expanded construction of housing for seniors such as The Mather on Jones Branch Drive and another on the site of the former National Association of Automobile Dealers, the arrival of entertainment venues such as the Capital One Hall, and roof-top penthouses, eateries, aerial train tracks along Route 123 and 7, and the tunnel beneath the Route 7/Route123 intersection.
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To meet these needs, Fairfax County continues to focus on improving emergency services.
The proposed station will be larger than the existing one and will permit use of larger fire-fighting equipment necessary for taller buildings. Plans call for a two-story building with five bays, living facilities for firefighters
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