Store is expected to open in 2014.
Fairfax County officials and developers involved in the construction of Wegmans at Hilltop Village Center gathered Monday to break ground on the site. Speakers at the ceremony — three years after the site's zoning was changed in 2009 — shared a common feeling: Finally! "To me, it feels like it was rezoned in 1999," said Lee District Supervisor Jeff McKay (D). McKay said, along with the redevelopment of Springfield Mall, the Wegmans construction is the issue his constituents ask him about most. Wegmans construction has faced several delays, including a lawsuit that was rejected last year by the Virginia Supreme Court. Along with Wegmans, the Hilltop Village Center complex, located near the intersection of Beulah and Telegraph Road, will …
Virginia's Attorney General told gun rights advocates he considers the school's gun ban bad policy that doesn't promote safety.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) was certain Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had sold them out. “His opinion on the GMU ban went against us,” said VCDL Vice President Jim Snyder in his introduction of Cuccinelli at Thursday night’s membership meeting in the Mason Governmental Center. Cuccinelli soon allayed the group’s fears: “As Attorney General I cannot undercut my client by going out and saying something like, ‘You’re idiots for doing this.’ But the case is over, and I can now say I think they’re crazy.” In January 2011, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld George Mason University's prohibition against guns in campus buildings and at sports and entertainment events. The Attorney General’s office had written a legal opinion …
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Joe Brenchick
2:11 pm on Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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