Baltimore-based Merritt Properties started construction on its Merritt I-66 Business Park in Manassas, Virginia. The project is 28 miles west of D.C. and includes six industrial building totaling 596,000 square of space. According to the company, the project is aimed ...

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McLEAN, Va. — In a city filled with iconic landmarks, perhaps nothing better symbolizes how metropolitan Washington operates than the Capital Beltway: the physical embodiment of the gridlock that also grips Washington politics. For decades, it has been the eight-lane ...

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WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of people remain in the dark more than three days after summer storms clobbered the mid-Atlantic region. At 5:15 a.m. Tuesday, Pepco was reporting about 116,570 power outages on its website. Montgomery County had the ...

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WASHINGTON — Millions of people in a swath of states along the East Coast and farther west went into a third sweltering day without power Monday after a round of summer storms that killed more than a dozen people. The ...

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Josh Halbedel has joined NAI KLNB as an associate for its land brokerage and religious properties brokerage divisions. He will work company’s Columbia offices. In his new position, Halbedel will represent property owners and investors in the marketing and sale ...

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WASHINGTON — Metro has removed a total of 94 buses from service after one caught fire in Maryland, the second such fire in less than a week. Metro says there were no passengers aboard the Orion VI bus traveling on ...

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Joe Schneider and Barbara Silverman have joined Hord Coplan Macht’s Northern Virginia regional office. Schneider will join HCM’s multi-family studio and focus on mid- and high-rise urban developments. He holds a master’s in architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and ...

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For the sixth time in seven years, Towson commercial real estate broker KLNB LLC has posted annual leasing income of more than $1 billion, the company reported Monday. Last year’s $1.2 billion figure was a 10 percent increase over 2010, ...

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NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell unveiled a list of transportation proposals on Thursday that call for increased state funding to reduce gridlock, which he says would help boost economic development and create jobs. Virginia has some of the ...

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Citing “irreconcilable differences,” Eagle Bancorp of Bethesda, the parent company of Eagle Bank, said Monday that it is ending its $31.2 million acquisition of Alliance Bankshares Corp. of Chantilly, Va., The deal, announced in July, would have had Eagle Bank ...

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