Here’s a roundup of all the events, live music, and entertainment happening around Alexandria this weekend, Friday, November 29, through Sunday, December 1, 2024.
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Good Friday morning, Alexandria!
🌦️ Today’s weather: Scattered sprinkles and flurries are expected between 10am and 4pm, with mostly sunny conditions and a high near 48. The west wind will range from 5 to 11 mph, gusting up to 20 mph. Friday night will be clear, with a low of around 28 and a 9 mph west wind.
With nearly 900 existing affordable housing units and growing, Housing Alexandria is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
The nonprofit announced its 20th anniversary this week, a milestone for a city where expenses are otherwise high.
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Pretty soon email inboxes won’t get those monthly newsletters from Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson. It’s the end of an era in the city, as Wilson leaves office in January.
Wilson is looking forward to it.
A documentary about Alexandria’s reckoning with its racist history is airing on WHUT, a regional PBS station, this week and next weekend.
The Alexandria Community Remembrance Project’s documentary Resolve
Two popular Alexandria parks on the waterfront are about to close for a while, and the city is soliciting feedback on their redevelopment.
Waterfront Park (1 Prince Street) and Point Lumley Park (1 Duke Street) in Old Town are prone to frequent flooding. Both will be redeveloped as the city plans on rebuilding segments of sea wall and installing a pumping station at Waterfront Park to move floodwaters back out to the Potomac River.
Good Wednesday morning, Alexandria!
🌧️ Today’s weather: Expect increasing clouds and a high around 54, with calm winds turning south at 6 mph in the afternoon. Rain will start Wednesday night, mainly after 1 am, along with patchy fog developing after 4 am; low temperature will be around 45, with a southeast wind at 3-5 mph. The chance of rain is 90%, with up to a quarter-inch of precipitation. Thanksgiving Day will see rain mainly before 1 pm and patchy fog until 2 pm, followed by a high near 55, with westerly winds increasing to 6-11 mph and gusts up to 21 mph.
A Japanese steakhouse is opening a new location in Arlandria.
Sake Express Japanese Hibachi will open within the next two months at 3827 Mount Vernon Avenue, staff told ALXnow.
While largely liberal Alexandria has had a tense relationship with Republicans in the past, Gov. Glenn Youngkin included footage of Old Town in a video aimed at bringing Trump administration staffers to live in Virginia.
“To the new members of the President Trump administration moving to the area, I want to personally you to make Virginia your home,” Youngkin said in the 30 second video. Virginia is right across the Potomac. We offer a great quality of life, safe communities, award-winning schools where parents matter and lower taxes than DC or Maryland. ”
Land use attorney Kenneth Wire has seen six proposals for the redevelopment of the Victory Center come through in the last twenty years.
The latest one, which that would see the building converted into affordable housing while a neighboring lot is turned into market-rate housing, could be the one that finally overturns the Victory Center’s two-decade run of bad luck.
More than $27,000 worth of packages were stolen from the United Parcel Service facility last month on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria.
A man scaled a wall into a secure package area of the facility at 5601 Eisenhower Avenue on Sept. 25 incident, according to a recently released search warrant affidavit. The area is where high-value items are kept.