M.J. McAteer

Gregory Washington took office as the eighth president of George Mason University on July 1. Photo by Lathan Goumas

The mentor

New Mason president hopes to inspire students, faculty

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Gregory Washington, the new president of George Mason, “embodies our university,” says Thomas M. Davis, rector of the school’s governing Board of Visitors. How? In just about every way possible, both personally and professionally, say Davis and others. Mason’s stated mission is to provide “equal opportunity and an educational and work environment free from any…

High-rise horizon

Arlington readies for birth of National Landing

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The numbers are mind-boggling. During the next decade, Amazon.com Inc. plans to develop about 6 million square feet of office space in Arlington County’s Crystal City, Pentagon City and Potomac Yard areas to accommodate the mammoth e-tailer’s new HQ2 East Coast headquarters. That’s almost as large as the biggest office building in the world, the…

Planting the flag

As a new decade dawns, Amazon scales up for HQ2

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•  Amazon’s twin towers coming in 2023 •  HQ2 “base camp” office opened in September •  400+ workers hired; 24,500+ to go In November 2018, Virginia won big —   really big — when Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. chose Arlington County as one of two locations where it would build operations for its planned East Coast…

Approaching equality

2020 marks a record year for female legislators in Virginia

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Women may make up more than half of Virginia’s population, but their presence in the statehouse has always fallen far short of parity. This year’s election brought a seismic change, however. Rachel Bitecofer, assistant director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, says that women now hold 41 of the General…

The place for placemaking

Fairfax County is NoVa’s epicenter for development

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Local leaders realized that they needed to get serious about diversifying their economy, and the result has been an ambitious, two-pronged plan to refashion Fairfax into a center of the knowledge economy.