The retail and commercial portion of a 153-acre data center site in Gainesville is ready to be developed.
Developer Buchanan Partners says the first tenant at Gainesville Crossing will be a Sheetz gas station on the property at Interstate 66 and Route 29. While it can build a convenience store by-right, the developer is seeking a Special Use Permit to install gas pumps and a drive-through lane for customers to order and pick up food.
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Prince William County residents like chicken sandwiches so much that the area will soon be home to the largest Chick-fil-A restaurant in the Mid-Atlantic region.
The Board of County Supervisors on June 28 unanimously approved a new 5,000-square-foot restaurant that will sit on about their acres of land at Route 1 and 3330 Pine Bluff Drive, across from a Walmart Supercenter just outside Dumfries. The eatery that has developed a following of fans across the U.S. will demolish the former building that housed an Applebee's restaurant, which closed more than ago.
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Water's End Brewery will hold a soft opening for its newest taproom this weekend. 'Fredericksburg Square', a 19,000 square foot property at 525 Caroline Street, will be home to the third Water's End Brewery operation and soon a new Hot Chickn Kitchn location.
The soft opening weekend, which takes place Friday, July 1, from 3 until 11 p.m., Saturday, July 2 from noon to 8 p.m., and Sunday, July 3 from noon until 8 p.m., will mark step 1 of the opening process for Fredericksburg Square.
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Franchisees and Woodbridge-natives Jerome Johnson Sr. and Jr. will host the store's ribbon-cutting, followed by a check presentation where the business will donate $2,000 to the Hylton Boys and Girls Club in Dale City.
With the Next Gen store design, people who live and work in Woodbridge can run on Dunkin' faster and more conveniently than ever before. The new Next Gen Combo restaurant offers Woodbridge a first-hand look at Dunkin's enhanced store experience, with a modern look that provides a fresh, friendly, vibrant, and engaging environment.
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What's got three drive-through lanes, a hoard of devoted fans who love chicken sandwiches, and gallons of iced tea?
If the nation's top fast-food chain has its way, the answer will be one of the most prominent Chick-fil-A restaurants in the Mid-Atlantic region.
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One of Manassas' busiest restaurants is undergoing an eight-week renovation.
On Liberia Avenue expansion, the dining room at Chick-fil-A at 9506 Liberia Avenue is temporarily closed. The drive-through remains open.
Initially opened in 2004, Chick-fil-A Signal Hill has become the city's top meals taxpayer, making more sales than any other restaurant in Manassas, often handling upwards of 2,000 cars a day through their single-lane drive-through lane.
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The Manassas City Council this week passed a $272 million operating budget for 2023, about $400,000 more than what it approved last year.
Read our coverage of the budget adoption here.
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Eats Burgers offers a retro atmosphere while you -- you guessed it -- eat burgers.
Kelly Hunt is no stranger to the local restaurant scene. Since she was 15, she has enjoyed cooking for herself and her guests. This love of food and hospitality in her native Fredericksburg has resulted in Hunt becoming the owner of the Mason-Dixon Cafe and has kept her going for the last 32 years.
In late April 2022, Hunt embarked on her latest venture with Eats Burgers, a fast, casual food concept. The building in which Hunt decided to open her new burger restaurant has a place in local restaurant history as it's the former location of Mr. Dee's, a burger and barbecue place that closed in January 2015 after being open for 32 years.
The building had the look of the old burger joints from the 1950s and 60s and had that retro look that appealed to Hunt. The building had originally been under contract to be torn down and the land used for condos, but luckily for Hunt, that fell through, and she jumped at the chance and purchased the property in March 2019.
"I live just up Lafayette Blvd, so I drove by the old Mr. Dee's pretty much every day," says Hunt. "I've always loved the building. It's mid-century modern and reminds me of Mason-Dixon's building on Princess Anne Street. It turns out they were both Hardees."
And then came the Coronavirus pandemic.
The event slowed down Hunt's plans for Eats; in addition to that, she had to let go of much of her staff at the downtown Mason-Dixon location and temporarily close her Stafford restaurant. Along with her son and a small team, Hunt was able to keep the business afloat and was able to get back to the Eats project.
Hunt's family is very involved in her restaurant ventures; her sister, two children, and significant others all work at her restaurants.
"Once things returned to normal, I was able to hire a contractor and get the project rolling. Permits took a very long time due to covid," says Hunt. "In the end, I am grateful that it happened this way because the result was much better than I had planned. I was able to take my time and restore the building completely."
According to Hunt, the opening day for Eats was very busy as customers were interested in the restaurant's offerings, such as the BBB Burger, which consists of local Seven Hills beef, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, and bacon jam, Eats sauce, bacon and an onion ring. Eats also offers waffle fries, donut sandys, and other options.
Hunt is just getting started with Eats, her plans include give-back nights like she does at the Mason-Dixon and classic car shows.
Eats Burgers is located at 701 Lafayette Street and is open from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday thru Thursday and 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday through Saturday.
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There's a new restaurant on Caroline Street in Downtown Fredericksburg, nestled between a beauty salon and a home decor store.
Maggie's opened on New Year's Day, Â but it has been in the works for the last two years according to owner Benjamin Culwell. Culwell and his father began the construction of Maggie's in March 2021, all the while documenting their road to opening the store on social media, announcing such things as the arrival of the store's uniforms and showcasing their outdoor dining area.
Though they were putting the shop together in the latter days of the coronavirus pandemic, Culwell and his father worked to make sure everything came together with the way they wanted it.
"We didn't have any major setbacks during construction and COVID didn't really affect us since we were the ones doing the work," says Culwell.
When Maggie's opened on January 1 they offered up a selection of sandwiches, such as the Bromo, thinly sliced London broil on a Baltimore baked Kaiser roll, two types of sauces, and thinly sliced onion. Maggie's also makes its own root beer, cream soda, and orange creamsicle soda.
Maggie's also has an interesting sense of decor of various objects placed around the restaurant which according to Culwell each have a story of their own.
"Being born in Fredericksburg and growing up here, the history of this town is extremely important to my father and I," says Culwell. "This is a common theme through Maggie's. Every piece of decor has a story and we try to showcase that here."
One object that will catch attention is called the "Kaempffer's Corner Sailor," an artifact left over from when Culwell's family owned and operated a produce stand and landscaping store in New Jersey in the 1950s and 1960s called Kaempffr's Corner. The corner used the sailor as its mascot.
Other objects include boat paddles that were used to traverse the Rappahannock River and an old telephone pole dating back to the 1930s that would have been used across Virginia for both telegraphs and telephones.
In spite of having to deal with the recent snowstorm in early January, Culwell has had a great response to Maggie's grand opening. Not just from customers but also from the surrounding downtown business community, calling the response extremely kind and welcoming.
Maggie's is located at 820 Caroline Street in Downtown Fredericksburg, their operating hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
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Vita Nova Creatives and Coffee will hold its grand opening on Tuesday, March 29.
According to the cafe's operations manager Jessica Millar, Vita Nova's event will begin at 6:30 am and conclude at 5 pm. During the grand opening, the cafe will sell regular-sized drinks at $1 and hold prize drawings.
Founded by Paula Millar, Vita Nova strives to be not just a neighborhood cafe but a space for local artists. The idea for what would become Vita Nova began after Millar participated in a creative retreat in Waco, Texas, in October 2020. Millar was encouraged after the retreat to open a space where creative types could hang out, enjoy something to drink, and be creative.
