As you drive along Route 7 from Ashburn to Leesburg, it’s getting pretty much built up the whole way — residential neighborhoods, data centers, retail shopping plazas, etc. But not so along the Dulles Greenway.
Once you pass the Belmont Ridge Road exit heading to Leesburg on the Greenway, there’s a lot of open country along the highway.
But the slow merging of Ashburn and Leesburg was bound to happen there too — and now a new retail center and residential community has been proposed for the Shreve Mill Road exit — which currently is in the middle of nowhere.
The western border would be Evergreen Mills Road and the future extension of Crosstrail Boulevard would come swooping down from Sycolin Road, cross the Greenway, and cut right though the neighborhood and connect with Evergreen Mills.
Called Greenfield Farm in documents filed with the county, the new development would include a large single-family home neighborhood and — of more interest to The Burn — a small retail center near the Greenway exit. (See pink colored buildings on the diagram.)
The proposed center would include a drive-thru fast-food restaurant, a gas station and convenience store, and three commercial/retail buildings for things such as ice cream shops, restaurants, dentist offices, and the like.
Of course, this is all in the very preliminary stage, so no future tenants have been named or even suggested yet.
But this is likely a harbinger of future growth along the Greenway and Evergreen Mills Road as those corridors between Ashburn and Leesburg are the next logical places for development.