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REGIONAL VIEW northern virginia


Paid parking pushes Reston’s hot button by Stephenie Overman


R


eston Town Center landlord Boston Properties found


out just how much of a hot button paid parking can be for retailers and customers. In January Boston


Properties, which bought out Beacon Capital Partners in 2015 to make it the center’s sole landlord, instituted a $2 an hour fee for street parking and for all six garages. Parking had been free since the town center opened in 1990. Several hundred people


marched in protest, not on Town Center property but on streets nearby. Complaints focused not just on the cost of parking but on the imposition of what protesters called an overly complicated mobile pay phone app.


Retailers responded by


forming the Reston Merchants Association and issuing an open letter stating that “Most of the retailers have indicated that paid parking has been a disaster for business and projected sales are down dramatically.”


FOR THE RECORD


Alorica announced plans to expand its workforce in Spot- sylvania County by more than 200 employees. Operation site director Jason Campbell said a client recently expanded its contract with Alorica, driving the need for more customer service representatives locally. After the initial hiring push, the call center may add more employees, he said. To manage the growth in staff, Alorica has expanded its office in the Lee’s Hill area by 40,000 square feet. The company still has offices on the second floor of the building at 10300 Spotsylvania Ave. and has renovated the entire third floor to provide call-center facilities, employee services and training rooms. (The Free Lance-Star)


And Jackson’s Mighty


Fine Food & Lucky Lounge, part of the Great American Restaurants group, filed suit in Fairfax County Circuit Court alleging breach of contract. The suit sought an end to paid parking as well as damages. The Reston Merchants Association has been con- sidering joining Jackson’s lawsuit or filing its own suit, says association head Aaron Gordon, whose restaurant


Bloomberg BNA, a subsidiary of financial information company Bloomberg LP, will expand in Arlington County. The $5.5 million project will retain about 1,000 jobs and create up to 125 additional positions over three years. Bloomberg BNA, one of the top 10 largest private employers in Arlington, will consolidate operations now in Maryland at its Virginia facility. Bloomberg BNA provides legal, tax and compliance professionals with information, guidance and workflow solutions. (VirginiaBusiness.com)


Arlington-based government IT consultant Buchanan & Edwards Inc. has acquired Fairfax-based Reports and Requirements Co. LLC (R2C) for undisclosed terms, the first


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group owns the Red Velvet Cupcakery. “The landlord seems to be standing pretty firm. We’ve asked them to provide customers with three to four hours of free parking. That would give people time to have dinner, ice cream, a cupcake,” Gordon says, while addressing concerns about commuter parkers taking up spaces. In response, he says, “we’ve had zero help from these guys.”


acquisition in the company’s history. Buchanan’s CEO Dennis Kelly said it planned to open an office in Chantilly, housing 25 to 30 employees, including some from R2C. The company didn’t disclose the exact address of the new spot. R2C is a federal consulting firm focused on national security markets. (Washington Business Journal)


Arlington-based Graham Hold- ings Co. has sold its Kaplan University business to Purdue University for just $1. The deal will place the for-profit educa- tion system in a new nonprofit structure managed by Indiana- based Purdue. The nonprofit will pay Graham to operate Kaplan University under a 30-year contract, but the nonprofit has the option to buy out that


In early March, several hundred people staged a protest against parking fees at Reston Town Center.


In a statement issued at the end of April Boston Properties noted that paid parking has only been in effect for a few months and that it “has worked with retailers and office tenants to provide customer support, parking validations and other assistance as the Reston Town Center complex adjusts to paid parking.”


Garage usage by non-


office tenants have steadily increased, week over week, according to the company, and more than 143,000 users have downloaded the app. But Gordon says shops continue to lose revenue. “For people like me who


are restaurant or shop owners looking to go into a certain area, I’d say be very cautious. If you are on the fence about going into a property that’s going to become paid parking – don’t do it,” Gordon says. For landlords: “Whatever system you implement make it as user friendly as possible. It’s a simple thing. Ease people into the idea.”


contract after six years. Graham also will receive a share of the revenue generated from the new operation, but it’s too early to estimate how much that will be because it will be based on future revenue minus expenses. (Washington Business Journal)


Falls Church-based Inova Health System is seeking permission to add at least 48 beds to its Women’s and Children’s Hospital building, which sits on the system’s flagship Inova Fairfax Hospital campus. The proposal calls for two new, 24-bed medical- surgical units to be built. If Inova wins approval for the expansion, construction is expected to begin July 1, 2018, with a target opening of July 2019. (Washington Business Journal)


Lansdowne Resort has been sold to Ho ng Kong-based Dejia LLC for $133 million. The 296-room resort previously was owned by Bethesda, Md.-based LaSalle Hotel Properties. Sarah Crisafulli, Lansdowne’s area director of marketing and communications, said Destination Hotels is still managing and operating the resort. Troon Golf will continue overseeing the resort’s golf club. (Loudoun Times-Mirror)


Reston-based NCI Inc. CEO Paul Dillahay told analysts on an earnings call in April that the company is looking to recover millions of dollars alleg- edly embezzled from the firm. With the government IT firm having completed its internal investigation into Jon Frank, the


Photo courtesy Dave Lepkowski


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