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NoVa Idol Competition Continues

Northern Virginia idol competition continues Nov. 5 in Woodbridge.

This week, Northern Virginia Community College campuses have rotated the annual singing competition.

Wednesday, Nov. 4, the event was held at the Sterling Campus off Route 7.

Leesburg Teen Center Open Mike

Leesburg’s new teen center at Ida Lee Park held its first open mike night Weds. evening.

The center plans another open mike night in February.

A new teen center is breaking ground in Stone Ridge this Saturday as part of the new Gum Spring Library.

Bikes Only Street Days

First SF, now LA.

Last month, San Francisco blocked vehicular traffic from its main street downtown–Market Street in favor of bikes.

LA now considers banning cars from streets on certain days.

$6500 Move Up Tax Credit

The US Senate has approved a $6500 tax credit for move up homebuyers to April 30, 2010.

$8K Home Buyer Credit Ok’d

$8000 new homebuyer credit is given thumbs up in the US Senate.

House then POTUS expected to sign off extending popular buyer aid to April 30, 2010.

Home buyers purchasing in 2010 will not receive the credit until they file taxes in 2011 making a late year home purchase in 2009 the last weeks to

claim the credit on 2009 tax forms (filed in 2010.).

$11B For CA Water Infrastructure

SanFranChron says “broke” California votes to spend $11B on repairing Calif.’s extensive water irrigation system built mostly in the mid 20th century.

Numerous ecological fixes are also included.

Leesburg VA area has ongoing water billing wars topped by biological issues making news.

Dulles App Economy

BusinessWk profiles the app economy of Web 2.0.

Millions in venture capital.  Rapid profits, ease of entry, many new tech hires.

Dulles area unemployed techies keen on getting in on the action.

 

New South Riding Teen Center

A new teen center will be a part of the new Gum Spring Library which is holding its public groundbreaking this Sat. NOV 7th at the Stone Ridge site.

If its anything like the new Leesburg Teen Center at Ida Lee Park, South Riding teens can expect 6′ flat screen computer monitors, private high speed internet stations and WII areas with lounge furniture and movie screen projection.

Developer Builds Loudoun Library

Private developer is building the newest Loudoun Library.

A new office building has broken ground at Stone Ridge near Southe Riding.

The first two floors of the building will be the Gum Spring Library.

Foreshadowing what Loudoun expects from its new town center projects, the Gum Spring Library is the first of Loudoun’s developer/county gov. iniatives where the developer, as part of agreed upon proffers for construction approval, builds the county a public facility.

Dominion Valley developers built several ball fields in the vicinity of their development in Prince William County’s Haymarket VA yet building buildings takes proffers to a new level.

While Van Metre builds the building–which it will then deed to the county, Loudoun taxpayers have voted yes on a debt bond for $7m which will be added to $3m for the $10m finisheing out the interior of the library is expected to cost.

In this case, the library construction was delayed as Stone Ridge developers worked out construction financing.

Tenants have not yet been announced for upper floors.

Stone Ridge’s garden condos, a signal for some of the busted residential market in Loudoun, have revved up and are beginning construction of the new phase.