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Article: Booming Fair Oaks Eyes Future Warily
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- The Washington Post
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- August 15, 1987
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Some are calling it the birth of a portion of Fairfax County.
Some see it as the end.
No matter which characterization is embraced, last week's
decision by the Fairfax Board of Supervisors to locate the county's
new $83.4 million government center on wooded, rolling land near I-66
establishes the area around the Fair Oaks shopping mall as Northern
Virginia's newest development hot spot.
For the developers who are already sinking hundreds of millions
of dollars into the 5,300 acres surrounding Fair Oaks, the news
couldn't be better. The new government complex, they say, is merely
the latest catalyst helping to mold the Fair Oaks area as a hub for
commercial and residential development.
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