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Alexandria gets three new Opportunity Zones to incentivize revitalization

Published November 9, 2026 at 1:45PM

N. Beauregard Street near Roanoke Avenue in Alexandria West (via Google Maps)

Three additional Opportunity Zones have been added in Alexandria’s West End to support revitalization, Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) announced Friday (Nov. 6).

The U.S. Department of the Treasury approved all 153 new Opportunity Zones the Spanberger administration requested in Virginia. The zones are intended to promote long-term private investment in low-income urban, suburban and rural census tracts through federal tax benefits such as deferral of previous capital gains, step-up of previously earned capital gains and exclusion of taxable income on new capital gains in Opportunity Zones. The program was created by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

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Alexandria hosting open house for West End transportation improvement projects

By James Cullum

Published October 27, 2026 at 3:45PM

West End Transitway bus stop (via City of Alexandria)

The public is invited to discuss more than a dozen transportation improvement projects that have major implications in Alexandria’s West End.

The West End Transportation Improvements Projects Open House will be held Thursday, Oct. 29, from 5-8 p.m. at the Alexandria City High School Minnie Howard Campus (3775 W. Braddock Road). Residents will be able to discuss multiple projects with city staff.

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Speed limits to be reduced on two West End streets in April

By Emily Leayman

Published March 26, 2026 at 2:45PM

Yoakum Parkway in the Landmark neighborhood of Alexandria (Staff photo by Jay Westcott)

Speed limits on Edsall Road and S. Pickett Street in the West End will be reduced from 35 to 25 mph in April.

The reduction will apply to the full length of Edsall Road from S. Pickett Street to the city limits, and Yoakum Parkway between Stevenson Avenue and Edsall Road.

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No injuries in Yoakum Parkway apartment fire

By James Cullum

Published May 27, 2025 at 10:30AM

Fire in the 200 Block of Yoakum Parkway, May May 26, 2025 (via IAFF Local 2141)

A balcony fire at an apartment building in the West End was quickly extinguished Monday morning (May 26), and no injuries were reported.

The Alexandria Fire Department responded to 203 Yoakum Parkway at around 7:45 a.m. to find a fire showing from a fourth-floor apartment balcony. The two occupants inside the apartment were unharmed, and the fire was contained to the balcony, according to AFD dispatches.