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Here’s a look at Alexandria’s Landmark Mall redevelopment, block by block

Landmark Mall is gone. We’re getting a better idea of what’s going to replace it.

The first in-depth public review of specific buildings that will be part of “WestEnd,” the redevelopment of the former Landmark Mall property in Alexandria, is scheduled for early December before the city’s Planning Commission.

The sprawling 51.5-acre site has been subdivided into 15 blocks, three of which are dedicated to the future $1 billion Inova Alexandria Hospital campus, four for parks and open space, and the remainder for a redevelopment led by Potomac’s Foulger-Pratt, in partnership with Seritage Growth Partners (NYSE: SRG) and The Howard Hughes Corp. (NYSE: HHC).

All told, including the hospital, the project is expected to deliver more than 4 million square feet of mixed-use to the property bounded by Duke Street, Interstate 395 and North Van Dorn Street.

For Foulger-Pratt’s portion, Blocks E and G (combined), I and K are on the Planning Commission’s December docket. Concept submissions…

Read the full story from the Washington Business Journal.

School bus emergency? Fairfax County students have a plan to handle it

This story is part of WTOP’s 2026 Back to School coverage. The wheels on the bus will soon be going round and round again in Fairfax County, Virginia, and some of its young riders are learning what to do if there’s an emergency on the way to school. The annual Safety Patrol Training Camp, hosted by Fairfax County Public Schools' Office of Transportation Services, combined hands-on exercises with classroom lessons to teach students how to keep calm during emergencies on buses. The training can feel remarkably realistic, with overturned school buses on their side or completely upside down in the middle of the county bus depot. Other buses, right side up, fill with smoke that is water-based but mimics the intensity of a bus overheating.
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