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JBG Smith pitches another new mixed-use building in Crystal City, eyeing more office construction

JBG Smith Properties is rolling out plans for even more new construction in Crystal City, outlining details for another mixed-use building in the shadows of Amazon.com Inc.’s new headquarters.

The Bethesda developer announced Monday it hopes to build a nine-story, 240,000-square-foot building on a vacant property at 101 12th Street S. The project would be one of JBG Smith’s northernmost efforts in National Landing, sitting not far from Long Bridge Park and Boeing’s massive facility near the Pentagon.

The company is pitching the vast majority of the building (about 235,000 square feet) as office space. The remaining 5,000 square feet would be ground-floor retail.

The proposal comes just a few weeks after JBG Smith (NYSE: JBGS) submitted plans for a half-dozen new buildings across Crystal City, designed to seize upon the arrival of thousands of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) workers in the area in the coming years. However, the bulk of those plans were for residential buildings, and this…

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Sonic Drive-In to open its first restaurant in Northern Virginia’s I-95 corridor

Fast-food chain Sonic Drive-In has filed plans to build a new restaurant in Prince William County, its first outpost along the Interstate 95 corridor in Northern Virginia. The 1,400-square-foot restaurant, with two drive-thru lanes, 12 pull-up ordering stalls and a dining patio, will be located at 4115 Talon Drive in Dumfries, part of the Barracks Row at Quantico commercial development less than a mile northwest of the I-95 interchange at state Route 234. The location “will constitute a flagship Sonic design that will serve as a benchmark for future restaurant drive-thru development,” according to a written narrative accompanying the application, filed by Noah Klein of Venable LLP.
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