ICYMI: Huge Development Coming to Reston Town Center

Editor's note: This article was originally posted earlier this week.

The Reston development boom just keeps on trucking along. Now a development company is planning to completely overhaul a 14-acre office park in downtown and transform it into a pedestrian-friendly development featuring restaurants and retail just a quarter mile from the planned Reston Town Center Metro station, according to a Washington Business Journal report.

JBG Companies first proposed more retail development for the Reston Executive Center office park back in 2014, but that is just the first step in a multi-phase development project, with the next one being to develop RTC West into a 1.8-million-square-foot development that will include new retail and restaurants, according to the report.

Back in April, JBG announced that it had started construction on its transformation of RTC West from a suburban office park to a mixed-use development.

"RTC West, located just off the Dulles Toll Road at Town Center Parkway in Reston, Virginia, includes 480,000 square feet of existing office space," the statement reads. "The first phase of development adds 40,100 square feet of new and converted retail space to complement the office uses. The planned transformation envisions RTC West, a three-building suburban office park, as a transit-oriented mixed-use destination with the potential for up to 1.4 million square feet of new development, in accordance with the recommendations of the Reston Comprehensive Plan."

JBG acquired RTC West back in 2012.

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