It’s been a busy week in Alexandria with City Council coming back into session for the first time in 2022.
With a majority of the Council being new, there are fresh names and perspectives stories about city decision-making. Highlights from this week’s City Council meeting included a first look at plans for the city to — kind of — invest in a luxury hotel and bids to develop broadband internet access citywide.
The city was also hit with a few particularly notable crimes, like a man who attacked several people with a hammer near Mark Center and a woman shot near a West End 7-Eleven.
Top stories
- Woman shot during suspected shootout near South Reynolds Street 7-Eleven
- With hotel market in freefall, Alexandria considers financing luxury hotel in Old Town
- Man with hammer attacks several victims in The Shops at Mark Center
- JUST IN: Three arrested after bystander shot outside West End 7-Eleven
- JUST IN: Alexandria man charged with December murder of woman in West End
- Traffic Alert: Woodrow Wilson Bridge openings planned Tuesday night and Wednesday morning
- Amid declining enrollment, ACPS proposes employee raises in new budget proposal
- The Institute for Defense Analysis to open new Potomac Yard headquarters later this month
- Redevelopment plans announced for Community and Human Services office in Del Ray
- JUST IN: Juvenile arrested for alleged hit-and-run that injured Alexandria firefighters
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