FAIRFAX COUNTY
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has added five new stations in Reston and Tysons Corner under Phase I of its extension of the Silver Line Metrorail in Fairfax County. Phase II, underway and targeting completion by 2020, will add four more stations to Reston, Herndon and into Washington Dulles International Airport, plus two stations in neighboring Loudoun County.
Opened in April 2015 next to Tysons Corner Center and the Metrorail, the 300-room Hyatt Regency Tysons Corner Center offers 15,000 square feet of meeting space.
In Falls Church, The Westin Tysons Corner recently completed the $10 million refresh of its 405 rooms and 12 suites, meeting space, lobby, restaurant and lounge.
After a recent renovation including its 4,140-square-foot column-free ballroom, the recently rebranded Hyatt Regency Fairfax, with 9,000 square feet of total space, recently commenced a $14 million renovation that includes its 316 rooms and potential plans to enhance the hotel entrance and meeting space.
Crowne Plaza Dulles Airport Hotel recently unveiled a $7 million renovation that includes major upgrades to all 327 guest rooms and suites, its prefunction area, lobby, club lounge and fitness center.
NORFOLK
Set to open in spring 2017, The Main is a new $150 million mixed-use development on the Elizabeth River that will include the 20-story, 300-room Hilton Norfolk, with a 1,500-person Grand Ballroom and junior ballroom among its group spaces. The Main will also introduce three signature restaurants and The Exchange, set to become Norfolk’s largest convention space. Featuring 42,000 square feet of high-tech, high-design meeting space, the facility will offer 39 meeting rooms, an innovative “collaboration” room and two boardrooms. Accommodating 1,200 seated guests, the 18,500-square-foot Main Ballroom will be the largest in Virginia, prefunction space included.
RICHMOND
Opened in September 2015, the Quirk Hotel offers 71 artful rooms in downtown’s resurgent Arts District, with conference rooms and the Rooftop Bar, a first for the city, with event space for up to 200 people.