Groundbreaking Ceremony Set for Innovation Center South (ICYMI)

Image: Garage for Innovation Center Metro Station

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Release: Fairfax County

At 2 p.m. on Monday, June 15, members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will join representatives from Nugget Joint Venture LC (Rocks Engineering) and invited guests at a ceremony to officially break ground for Innovation Center South, a new 1.6-million-square-foot, mixed-use development in Herndon.

The ceremony will mark the start of construction on the infrastructure - stormwater management, new roads, streetlights and landscaping - that will serve the transit-oriented development and a new Metro station garage.

Innovation Center South is adjacent to the coming Innovation Center Metro Station, which will be built by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority as part of the second phase of the Silver Line. When complete, Innovation Center South will include a hotel and retail, residential and office space. It will exemplify Fairfax County’s effort to create vibrant communities located near multimodal transit hubs where people can live, work, learn and play.

In coordination with the shared infrastructure work, Fairfax County’s Department of Public Works and Environmental Services is designing and building a 2,100-space parking garage that will serve bus and rail commuters, a “pocket park” and a plaza to support the Metro station. The garage will include bus bays, kiss-and-ride spaces, a taxi stand, motorcycle spaces, and a secure room to house up to 100 bicycles.

Site infrastructure work is scheduled to begin this summer, and construction on the parking garage is scheduled to start in spring 2017. For project details, click here.

The ceremony will take place at the end of Rock Hill Road in Herndon. Parking will be available on the ninth floor of the garage at 2300 Dulles Station Blvd.

Directions: Exit the Dulles Toll Road at VA 228 S/VA 657 (Centreville Road) towards Chantilly. Turn right on Sunset Valley Drive. Turn left onto Dulles Station Boulevard. Take the first right, then turn left to the parking garage.

As part of an agreement reached four years ago to pay for the Silver Line’s second phase, Fairfax County agreed to build garages for the Innovation Center Metro Station and the Herndon Metro Station.

At its July 29, 2014, meeting, the Board of Supervisors approved a land deal giving the county a 5.5-acre footprint for the Innovation Center Station garage, kiss-and-ride spaces and Metro plaza, leaving 9.1 acres for the developer, Nugget Joint Venture to build Innovation Center South. Nugget Joint Venture and Fairfax County are jointly developing the site’s common infrastructure at a cost of $17 million. The county’s share of infrastructure costs is $7.5 million.