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New Stage for Tall Oaks

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86 percent vacant , according to Planning Staff member Mary Ann Tsai . " /> Tall Oaks Shopping Center is 86 percent vacant , according to Planning Staff member Mary Ann Tsai . Photo by Ken Moore. The closing of Giant in 2007 started a slow decline of Tall Oaks Village Center , “once a vibrant and successful center that was supported by the community,” said Hunter Mill Supervisor Catherine Hudgins . “It has been over eight years and while other anchors have come and gone, the vibrancy never returned to the Center,” according to Hudgins. “Of the five Village Centers in Reston, Tall Oaks Village Center is the smallest with approximately 18 acres of land. It has been in decline without a stable grocery store anchor tenant since 2007,” according to Mary Ann Tsai, with the county’s Planning Staff . “It is approximately 86 percent vacant .” The Board on Tuesday, July 26 approved Jefferson Apartment Group ’s proposal to build a total of 156 residential units consisting of 44 t...

Tall Oaks Village Center in Reston to be Reborn as Mixed Use Redevelopment

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When it was first built in the early 70s, Reston’s Tall Oaks Village Center faced little retail competition, but its fortunes changed when the Reston Town Center ’s shops and restaurants opened in 1990. It was dealt another blow when its anchor tenant, grocer Giant, closed its doors in 2007. Today, the 70, 000 square foot shopping center is 86 percent empty. However, the languishing center is set to take rebirth as a vibrant mixed use development with housing, retail, office and open space . The Board of Supervisors recently approved Jefferson Apartment Group ’s redevelopment plans for the village center . This has been a very difficult center to remodel or upgrade, and I hope Jefferson is able to provide what is needed to start that Supervisor Cathy Hudgins, Hunter Mill District Located at the corner of Wiehle Avenue and North Shore Drive , the village center is one of five in Reston, although it’s the smallest at about 18 acres. It’s the first to be redeveloped though si...

River Terrace Apartments

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Quizzes Lists Topics Save The River Terrace Apartments is an apartment building located at 7700 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [1] River Terrace Apartments was one of the first two garden apartment complexes built in Michigan which used loan guarantees from the Federal Housing Administration , the other being Hillcrest Village in East Lansing. [2] History By the late 19th century , the corridor along East Jefferson Avenue had become a prestigious residential neighborhood . As the automobile age dawned in the twentieth century and Detroit's population boomed, large upscale apartment buildings were constructed along the Avenue. However, this boom in apartment construction collapsed at the start of the Great Depression. However, in 1939, Wesson Seyburn, along with Leonard P. Reaume, of the property management firm of Holden & Reaume, applied for a building permit to construct this apart...