DINING & SHOPPING HOT SPOTS 1. Tysons is an easy choice for shopping, dining and hotels, but it’s not the only one. Reston is the bold vision of the late Robert E. Simon, a New Yorker who sold his family’s Carnegie Hall to buy a farm in Fairfax and turn it into a model town that mimicked European cities, where houses and shops surrounded a lake. The nearby RESTON TOWN CENTER was created as a “mall” that actually looked like an American downtown. 2. 3. 4. FAIR OAKS MALL and FAIRFAX CORNER in Fairfax provide both traditional indoor mall and outdoor city-center-style shopping, just off I-66 with multiple retail, dining and entertainment options. SPRINGFIELD TOWN CENTER offers shopping and dining along the I-95 corridor of Fairfax County, made even more convenient by its location near the Franconia/Springfield Metro and Virginia Railway Express parking areas. The transformation of Fairfax into slick urbanism is expressed in THE MOSAIC DISTRICT , which sits near the intersections of I-66 and the Beltway. What was once a suburban shopping center is now a city, complete with a weekend farmer’s market and nearly three dozen regional eateries. Explore more dining and shopping at FXVA.com/things-to-do PHOTOS (opposite page, from left) : BARREL & BUSHEL (APRIL GREER/VISIT FAIRFAX); VINCENT FERAUD (RITZ-CARLTON); STIR FRY AT THE BLOCK (THE BLOCK); (this page, from top): RESTON TOWN CENTER (BOSTON PROPERTIES); COUPLE AT FAIRFAX CORNER (JEFF MAURITZEN); THE MOSAIC DISTRICT (EDENS) FXVA.COM • 25
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