The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved changes yesterday, June 25, to the site layout for the massive 4.1.-million-square-foot Halley Rise development that will feature the first Wegmans in Reston.

Brookfield Properties had requested moving the location for its 200-room hotel on the development, formerly called Reston Crescent, which is located at the intersection of Sunrise Valley Drive and Reston Parkway. Originally, the hotel was to be located on the development’s northern boundary. It has now been relocated to what was previously planned to be a residential building along Edmund Halley Drive, near the intersection with Sunrise Valley Drive.

The approval also allows the developer to shift 291,000 square feet of residential, 95,000 square feet of retail and 150,000 square feet of office development among the project’s buildings.

Halley Rise's ’s total amount of development remains unchanged. Spread over eight blocks, the project will feature 1.5 million square feet in new office space, 1,721 residential units and 380,000 square feet of retail. This includes a 110,000-square-foot, urban-format Wegmans along Reston Parkway.

While the newly approved site layout moves the hotel’s location, the building remains 10 stories, but the plan boosts the height of an adjacent mixed-use building on block D. This previously seven-story residential building will be transformed into two buildings: one a mid-rise and the second an up to 27-story high-rise. The changes also increase the residential component for two buildings by 141,000 square feet and add 100,000 square feet in office space and 90,000 square feet of retail.

Brookfield also received approval on amended final development plans that confirm the location for the project’s new local street grid as proposed when Halley Rise was approved in 2018.

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