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Concept drawing of the Landmark redevelopment. The proposed new
Inova Alexandria Hospital, with two in-patient towers, is in blue. (Courtesy rendering)
The overarching vision and a rough timeline for the redevelopment of Landmark Mall were discussed Monday night during the first community engagement session since the deal between three developers, Inova Alexandria Hospital and the City of Alexandria was announced on Dec. 22.
Seven key players in the planned move of Alexandria Inova Hospital from its Seminary Road location to the city’s far West End tag-teamed the one-and-a-half-hour session.
The lead developer on the project is Potomac, Maryland-based Foulger-Pratt, whose managing partners, Chief Executive Officer Cameron Pratt and Chief Operating Officer Brigg Bunker, kicked off the session. Jonathan Rak, a partner at the law firm McGuireWoods, moderated the virtual information session.
A fundraiser has been set up to build a memorial for the mother and daughter who were murdered in their home in Salisbury. A neighbour of Aneta, 40, and Nikoleta Zdun, 18, set up a JustGiving page as a tribute to the pair who were brutally killed by their husband and father on the afternoon of June 1. Cameron Pratt, who lives opposite the home on Wessex Road, said: “I’d been a neighbour with them for about three years. They always kept themselves to themselves but they always said hello when we saw them and we saw them leave for school every morning.
The former Landmark Mall in Alexandria will get new life as a 4 million-square-foot mixed-use project that will include a new Inova hospital, partners in the project announced Tuesday.Â
Foulger-Pratt, Howard Hughes Corp. and Seritage Growth Properties announced an initial agreement with the city of Alexandria and Inova Health System to advance the development. Howard Hughes owns most of the mall property, while Seritage owns the site of the former Sears store and some of the land around it.Â
The proposal would transform the vacant mall site into a mixed-use, walkable urban village. Inova would invest $1 billion to create a new medical campus, anchored by the relocation and expansion of its Alexandria Hospital and more than 2,000 health-care workers. Landmark Mall closed in January 2017, although in 2018 it was used for filming scenes in the new Wonder Woman movie that will be released Friday.