Loudoun Seeks Younger, Millennial Homeowners
Loudoun County may have a life quality hardly matched in Virginia, or even across the nation, but its leaders are not entirely happy since it fails to lure millennial home buyers. At Bisnow media group's 'State of the Market' meeting for their county on July 10, they joined voices calling for
Metro Starts Compensating Late-Night Workers for Service Cuts
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has begun offering late-night commuters a travel subsidy in compensation for its service cuts due to maintenance. Commonly known as Metro, the organization announced in a June 24 press release that qualified workers who travel between midnight and 4 a.m. can receive a $3 subsidy toward a shared
Alexandria Introduces Local Pass for Discounted Fitness Classes
With the summer descending upon us with all its heat in Alexandria, it is high time that we get in shape sooner than any later now. And for the likeminded, the city has devised a cost-saving opportunity. The Alexandria Fitness Pass (AFP), a local adoption of the spirit of the ClassPass, the
McLean Teens Start Jobs Site, Put Peers to Work
Residents of McLean, Virginia, didn't have much of an unconventional choice when they needed some work done at their yards until recently. That changed when local teenagers took it on themselves to organize and offer their labor as a meaningful alternative. Regardless of the season, yards require meticulous manual attention. And
Public Art to Transform Frederick, Foster Sense of Community
Investing in public art remains somewhat overshadowed in today’s controversial macro-politics and might even be seen by many as trivial and going against the tide but Frederick County in Maryland has now a major plan to prove them wrong. The Frederick Arts Council (FAC), a non-profit that first convened in 1976 following
Fairfax Bids to Host First Indoor Ski Resort in US
Winter fun may come and simply last to never end in Fairfax, should a proposed public-private partnership (P3) is approved by the country administration and put to action. According to a report released by the Sports Tourism Task Force, the Netherlands-based entertainment firm SnowWorld is in the process of making final