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• Why an effort to expand the Arlington police auditor’s access to records unraveled

  28-03-2024 20:30 via arlnow.com
  
  Arlington police records photo illustration (by ARLnow)
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  Last year, an attempt to broaden the Arlington police auditor’s access to police records quietly fizzled before reaching the public for discussion.
  The auditor currently can access police records for publicly filed misconduct complaints and review
  
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• Fuse at Mason Square: George Mason University’s next big innovation

  28-03-2024 19:30 via arlnow.com
  
  George Mason University’s new Fuse at Mason Square in Arlington, is poised to become a 345,000-square-foot collaborative and digital innovation space in the heart of the Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor.
  “As Mason expands in Arlington, Fairfax, and Prince William counties, Fuse is a groundbreaking project that is redefining the modern university’s role in catalyzing business and talent growth in the region,” says Liza Wilson Durant, Mason’s associate provost for
  
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• Trees need TLC? These companies are rated as Arlington-area best bets

  28-03-2024 18:45 via arlnow.com
  
  A tree blossoming (staff photo by Jay Westcott)
  It’s the ARLnow Five and Five, where nonprofit Washington Consumers’ Checkbook provides five top-rated local businesses and five tips for getting great service and prices. ARLnow readers can access all of Checkbook’s ratings of local tree care services until May 5 at Checkbook.org/ARLnow/tree-care.
  These tree care companies serve Arlington County and received Washington Consumers’ Checkbook’s top rating for quality (as
  
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• Statutes of Liberty: Green card application fees go up on Monday — file now if you’re eligible!

  28-03-2024 17:45 via arlnow.com
  
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  USCIS’s fees for most applications are increas
  
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• Arlington might be getting a Sky Zone trampoline and indoor entertainment park

  28-03-2024 16:45 via arlnow.com
  
  Kids at Sky Zone (photo via Sky Zone/Facebook)
  Alexandria might not be getting a pro sports arena, but Arlington and Alexandria might be getting another “premier indoor active entertainment destination.”
  Specifically: Sky Zone, a kid-friendly trampoline park with foam pits, climbing walls, slides, zip lines, basketball, dodgeball and other activities.
  The company announced yesterday that a group of local investors has bought the franchise rights for one location apiece in Arlington a
  
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• New food hall with focus on local restaurants and fresh tech seeks to ‘restart Rosslyn’

  28-03-2024 15:45 via arlnow.com
  
  A new Arlington food hall opened this week with the hope of breathing more life into Rosslyn.
  Featuring fresh technology, murals by local artists and a full plate of nine D.C.-area food vendors, Upside on Moore has taken over the former site of Assembly at Rosslyn City Center (above the Metro station).
  The idea, says Nick Freshman, founder of the food hall’s operator Mothersauce Partners, is to provide a place where Rosslyn residents and office workers can not only eat but also relax and e
  
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• Morning Poll: Any regrets about Arlington passing up an MLB stadium?

  28-03-2024 14:45 via arlnow.com
  
  Washington Nationals opening day in 2016 (staff photo)
  With the Alexandria NHL and NBA arena deal now dead, and MLB opening day today, it’s a good time to reflect on the fact that Arlington could have been the home of the Nationals.
  In the early 2000s, a group bidding to land the Montreal Expos pitched the “PenPlace” site in Pentagon City. You know it now as the site where Amazon HQ2 Phase 2 and its distinctive Helix tower will be going (probably).
  As recounted by WeLoveDC
  
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• ARLnow Daily Debrief for Mar 27, 2024

  28-03-2024 01:30 via arlnow.com
  
  Good Wednesday evening, Arlington. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.News recap
  The following articles were published earlier today — Mar 27, 2024.9:30 am: Morning Poll: What would be your first lottery jackpot purchase? |Comments
  10:30 am: An Arlington garden apartment community is the best place to live in the U.S., new rankings say |Comments
  11:30 am: New charges against woman previously arrested after police stan
  
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