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OCTOBER 28, 2016 | NORTHERN VIRGINIA MEDIA SERVICES
School board seeking new member
Town center, mixed-use development taking shape
Have 45 days from Kidby’s resignation to fill seat TRACY BELL
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he Stafford County School Board agreed to a timeline Tuesday for filling the Garrisonville District seat on the school board. The board voted unanimously to a timeline to find a replacement for school board member Nanette Kidby, who’s recent resignation will be effective Nov. 30. Kidby announced earlier this month that she and her husband, now empty-nesters, are relocating and moving west. She explained that she would not be finishing her four-year term, which was set to end at the conclusion of 2017. In a work session Tuesday, the school board determined that it would accept applications for Kidby’s position from Nov. 1-30. The application and an explanation about the process will be posted on the schools division website, according to school board Chairwoman Holly Hazard, Hartwood District. On Dec. 6, the school board will meet at 6 p.m., to review all accepted applications and select three to five candidates for interviews. On Dec. 8, Hazard said, candidate interviews will begin at 6 p.m. “If a decision is not reached that night, then a follow-up meeting will be set for Dec. 13,” Hazard said. A public advertisement detailing the job opening will be available on or BOARD before Nov. 1, according to the PAGE 13
Trees are being cleared for the entrance from Washington Drive to Aquia Towne Center and the planned Harris Teeter grocery store that will be built on the location of the closed movie house, in the background. ALEKS DOLZENKO | INSIDENOVA
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enovations to the former Aquia Towne Center are underway, after years of stalled development and setbacks. Regal Aquia 10 no longer calls the plaza home and will be revived under the name Regal Garrson 12 within The Garrison at Stafford a few miles down the road. Now called The Town Center at Aquia, the plaza that housed Regal and a Rite Aid, will gain a 78,000-square-foot Harris Teeter planned at the
back of the shopping center. Mosaic Realty Partners, which is developing the new mixed-use town center, has 166,000 square feet of retail planned for the plaza. According to Eron Sodie of Mosaic, trees are being cleared at the entrance to the Aquia Harbor neighborhood at Washington Drive. The town center is expected to be mostly complete by the second half of 2017. Harris Teeter, the anchor store, is set to open in the spring to early summer of 2018.
Another tenant, Petco, will also be located in the plaza, and more businesses will make their way to the plaza next year. Aquia Fifteen, a 256-unit apartment complex run by the Franklin Johnson Group of Virginia Beach was also constructed at the plaza, with nearly half of the tenants having moved in over the summer. In May 2015, Mosaic purchased Aquia Towne Center, a 25-acre developCENTER ment site off Interstate PAGE 13 95 near the U.S. 1 and
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