Fairfax County School District Sets Up Classrooms in Office Buildings
By Keith Loria October 31, 2023 2:54 pm
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Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) has transformed 40,000 square feet of vacant office space into classrooms at a corporate park in Herndon, Va.
The school system will use the space for adult education and services, as well as testing centers.
FCPS’s space includes part of 455 Spring Park Place and the entirety of 465 Spring Park Place. The two buildings, both owned by Washington, D.C.-based Penzance, are joined by a breezeway.
JLL (JLL)’s project and development services group led the project though various stages. The company aided in site selection and RFP budgeting and development.
“As urban environments get built up, we are left with limited space for building new educational institutions,” John Gibb, managing director of tenant representation for JLL, said in a prepared statement. “In this case, it was more efficient to locate an educational facility in one-story buildings that externally resemble a school as much as corporate offices, and transform the buildings into exactly what FCPS needed.”
Joining Gibb in representing FCPS was JLL’s Cheryl Russ.
Update: This story originally misattributed source material. This has been corrected. We apologize for the error.
Keith Loria can be reached at Kloria@commercialobserver.com.
