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Plans for Dulles area include health facilities, mixed-use projects
by Joan
Hennessy
for Virginia Business
June 2007
To understand the change sweeping Loudoun, consider the area surrounding Washington Dulles International Airport.
The county is taking pains to transform the area. For instance, there’s the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm, an internationally known biomedical and research center on state Route 7, about 8 miles north of Dulles. Other projects planned for the area include:
A new urgent care and advanced imaging center on Route 50 by Inova Health System. “Today’s situation is that the primary health provider [in Loudoun] is Inova,” says H. Patrick Walters, executive vice president of Inova’s western region.
The health-care provider is just months from opening the center near the airport. And it has purchased 97 acres just west of South Riding. “We’re in the process of getting zoning today for one of our health-plex facilities, which would have an ER, an advanced imaging center, a surgery center and physician offices,” says Walters. Two years ago, Inova pledged $200 million to expand Loudoun’s facilities.
An outpatient center and, eventually, a hospital on Route 50 by HCA Virginia. Along with its property off 50, the private, for-profit company also proposes building the Broadlands Regional Medical Center for Ashburn. The center would have 164 beds and cost upward of $150 million, says Mark Foust, vice president of communication for the capital division of HCA, based in Reston.
“A high percentage [of residents] leave the county for hospital care,” says Foust. “There’s a clear need for more hospital beds.”
The Loudoun Board of Supervisors has not approved zoning for the hospital. HCA is challenging the decision in court.
East Gate: This development off Route 50 will incorporate 600 town home and condominium residential units and a 150,000-square-foot, supermarket-anchored retail development.
Atapco Properties will develop the shopping center and approximately 500,000 square feet of office space. Also, the developer will widen Route 50 westbound from the Fairfax line to Poland Road, says Terrie Laycock, interim director of transportation for Loudoun County.
A spokesman for Atapco said the combined development team — Atapco, Equinox Investments and home builders Centex and Pulte — would add $17.5 million in public roadways. The residential developers are planning more than 1,000 home s, primarily town homes and condominiums. With commercial development included, the total value is estimated at more than $1 billion.
Arcola Center : located at the juncture of Route 50, Route 606 and Loudoun County Parkway. Plans for the project include 2.1 million square feet of office and commercial space, up to 1.1 million square feet of retail space, and approximately 80 acres of town homes and multifamily housing.
A former slave quarters is still on the property. T he developer will work with the county to restore the building for educational purposes, says Nicole Morrill, vice president of project management for Buchanan Partners. The entire budget ranges from $600 million to $1 billion over 20 years.
One Loudoun: The development will be at Loudoun Parkway and Route 7 and will include The World Trade Center, Dulles Airport. Plans call for 3 million square feet of office space and about 1,040 residences. A project spokeswoman said that the budget has not been released.
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