Alexandria is set to host Al Ain FC from the United Arab Emirates as an official Team Base Camp for the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™.
According to the FIFA announcement on Tuesday, Al Ain FC will base itself in Alexandria during the group stage, lodging in Alexandria and using Episcopal High School as their training hub. The team is scheduled to play two matches at Audi Field in Washington, D.C., this month.
Weather permitting, the westbound King Street (Route 7) ramps to northbound and southbound I-395 will be closed for paving tonight (June 3) and Wednesday night, (June 4), according to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT).
The ramps will be closed as follows:
The John Porter Cup is back in Old Town.
Old Town’s business community defeated Del Ray 24-23 in their seventh annual five-inning softball game at Eugene Simpson Park (426 E. Monroe Avenue). The win put an end to Del Ray’s three-year streak.
Alexandria is set to celebrate Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week from June 7 to June 15, 2025.
The city plans to participate in the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Clean the Bay Day, an annual event dedicated to preserving the bay’s ecosystem.
Plans to partially demolish the former Big Wheel Bikes property in Old Town and replace it with a taco restaurant are heading to Alexandria’s Board of Architectural Review.
On June 5 (Thursday), the Board will assess a permit to demolish and a certificate of appropriateness for proposed alterations for the property located a block away from the Potomac River.
A plan to convert a former motel on N. Washington Street into a multifamily building and a townhouse is heading to the Board of Architectural Review on Thursday (June 5).
Maryland-based PT Blooms is asking the Board of Architectural Review to approve a Certificate of Appropriateness to redevelop the property at 802 and 808 N. Washington Street into The Whitley — Phase 2, a 48-unit building with one- to three-bedroom condos. That’s the former Towne Motel property, which closed in 2017 and didn’t reopen as a Holiday Inn Express as planned.
Good Tuesday morning, Alexandria!
☀️ Today’s weather: Sunny, with a high near 84 degrees. Calm wind becoming south around six mph in the afternoon. Mostly clear tonight, with a low of around 62 degrees. Southeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Alexandria Mayor Alyia Gaskins will join ALXnow for a live one-on-one virtual video conversation on Monday, June 9, at 4 p.m.
Our “Ask The Mayor” series provides Alexandria residents with regular opportunities to hear directly from Mayor Gaskins on pressing city issues and to submit their questions for consideration.
Alexandria is hosting an Open House on June 11 to share design details for four infrastructure projects near Sanger Avenue and North Beauregard Street in the city’s west end.
The event runs from 6 to 8 p.m. at William Ramsay Recreation Center (5650 Sanger Avenue). Residents can drop by to learn about construction plans, work schedules, parking changes, and trail detours for projects starting this summer.
Alexandria Mayor Alyia Gaskins and Del Elizabeth Bennett-Parker (D-5) will join the Virginia chapter of Moms Demand Action onstage at Market Square (301 King Street) on Friday (June 6).
Friday is National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and the annual rally is part of Wear Orange Weekend. Gun violence victims will be honored in events throughout the country by affected families and supporters. The city’s new Poet Laureate, Cristi Donoso, will also speak at the event, which includes an on-site blood mobile and a community resource fair.
It took three years to finish, and on Saturday (June 7), Alexandria will officially recognize the completion of the Hooffs Run Interceptor and a rejuvenated African American Heritage Park.
The large project at 500 Holland Lane transports millions of gallons of raw sewage for processing at AlexRenew, and included a “full-scale restoration of the area surrounding Hooffs Run, including enhancements to the riparian buffer, the establishment of native trees and plants, and the creation of new wildlife habitats,” according to the city.
