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Bunnyman Brewing Open at the Workhouse

Bunnyman Brewing opened in 2024 at the Workhouse Arts Center with a brewery, coffee shop, and restaurant. The newly renovated building at the front of the campus includes indoor and outdoor dining and social spaces.

Interested in joining Bunnyman Brewing and being a retailer at the vibrant Workhouse Arts Campus? There are additional leasing opportunities available. Visit the leasing page for more information.

The EOR is designed to invest one-time, funding into projects that will provide economic benefits to Fairfax County. Projects are focused on Capital development; purchasing real estate and programming support for economic development activities identified in the Economic Success Plan. Selected projects are expected to create value, increase economic growth, and generate taxable revenue. Learn More...

Workhouse Arts Campus, a 501(c)(3), sits on 55-acre portion of the former DC correctional facility owned by Fairfax County. It opened in 2008 as a visual and performing arts center and currently offers more than 800 art education classes, 100 exhibitions, 300 performances and large-scale community events. As the owner of the workhouse campus, the county, along with a steering committee, oversees the strategic plan priorities of the workhouse and assists with its operational plans. DEI, along with other agencies, support the steering committee.

Fairfax County matches Agriculture & Forestry Industries Development Fund (AFID) grant funding to local companies to boost agriculture and forestry businesses that would otherwise be too small to qualify for state incentives. AFID is a tool to create new jobs and investment from companies that add value to Virginia-grown agriculture and forestry products.

The AFID Infrastructure Program is focused on awarding reimbursable grants primarily for capital projects at new and existing food hubs, farmers’ markets, commercial kitchens and other value-added facilities such as those used for processing and packaging meats, dairy products, produce, or other Virginia agricultural products. Small farmers, food producers, local food systems advocates and others interested in building their community’s local food and farming infrastructure are encouraged to learn more about the program and work with their localities to identify and develop suitable projects.

To date Fairfax County has matched one AFID Grant: Bull Run Winery

The Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure act of 2002 allows Fairfax County to work with private developers to acquire, design and construct a facility that is beneficial to both the private sector and government agencies. Since enacted, Fairfax County has completed several PPEA projects and has others underway.

The Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA) and the County worked together on repurposing a portion of the county-owned property at 7200 Columbia Pike in Annandale to create a versatile civic park space for the community. The underused parking lot at the former Annandale Elementary School was transformed into a “unique hybrid park” that includes a civic plaza with seating, an educational garden, a playground, a lawn, and an open space that can be used as a flexible “pop-up” space for performances, community activities, and special events.

There will also be fully ADA-accessible paths that connect the park to Daniels Avenue and Columbia Pike.

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The primary objective of the Commercial Profiles Pilot is to gain valuable insights into the chosen districts, consumer behavior, local demographics, and visitor patterns. The profiles are a data template assembled as a tool to enhance county staff’s ability to make data driven decisions about future interventions, strategy, or program recommendations, as well as to support local commercial district organization efforts. Data synthesized in the profiles provide relevant demographic, performance, and economic health insights for Fairfax County’s commercial districts

Uses for the data and insights include:

Future place-led economic development work
Evaluate future commercial district interventions
Business investment and promotion opportunities
Market identification opportunities
Community empowerment

Phase II of the study will select additional commercial districts to study. This includes current planning areas, shopping centers that are outside of the county’s special planning areas, areas with existing partnership or organizations, economic impact, and use One Fairfax’s vulnerability index.

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