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News on Shellhorn?

Discussion in 'Broadlands Community Issues' started by HerbertB, Sep 18, 2007.

  1. HerbertB

    HerbertB New Member

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    Does anyone know when the Shellhorn extension to Broadlands Blvd will be finished. The gravel road is driving me nuts. :screwy:
    Last week a kid was trying his drifting skills on the gravel and nearly killed himself.
     
  2. jjenkins

    jjenkins New Member

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    sounds like he was almost a Darwin Award Nominey
     
  3. HerbertB

    HerbertB New Member

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    I believe his girlfriend who was sitting on the passenger seat would share your assessment.
    (By the looks on her face when his car drifted past mine, she no longer considers him a boyfriend)
     
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    christinaandrob New Member

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    i think it's scheduled to open when the golf course on waxpool and the dunkin donuts in ashburn open ;-)
     
  5. merky1

    merky1 Member

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    Maybe they are waiting on the Duke Nukem Forever release?

    I also wonder how they are going to regrade the one driveway that comes out to about the middle of the new lanes. I think this board needs a gambling option where we can post significant projects in the Broadlands area, and then each member can vote for an expected arrival date. Closest answer wins a free turn at keeping the HOA minutes :).
     
  6. HerbertB

    HerbertB New Member

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    I recently read in a Loudon paper that they are waiting for Virginia Power and Light to set up the new power posts and then would continue finishing the road.
    The estimate at that time was 2 weeks for the power and another 3 for the road. :screwy:

    NO progress so far! :censored:
     
  7. SarasMom

    SarasMom Member

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  8. L0stS0ul

    L0stS0ul hmmmm

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    I really like the gambling idea lol.
     
  9. Villager

    Villager Ashburn Village Resident

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    Maybe they should leave it as it is. My young child enjoys riding down that road and saying "Ahhhh" and listening to the vibration that makes. Good for entertainment purposes, especially since now that "the back way to Target" (Edwards Ferry Rd.) in Leesburg has been paved.
    ;)
     
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    There has been virtually no activity the last week. The new electric lines are in place but telephone and cable are still using old poles. No road work at all. Is Van Metre going to finish this ever?
     
  11. boomertsfx

    boomertsfx Booyakasha!

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    Hah villager, the same with my little one, funny!

    And what is up with the golf club on waxpool, its like they just run out of money every fwe months and nothing happens. I've watched all the tyvek be ripped off the main builder there across from AOL... kinda frustrating to see how it just never gets done.... and I don't even play golf!
     
  12. HerbertB

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    Their web site (the golf club I mean not Shellhorn) talks about opening 18 holes in Spring 2008 and another 9 holes in 2009. :screwy:

    I just hope it doesn't take that long for Shellhorn to be completed.:bow:
     
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    we have lived here for over 4 years, and they really haven't made much progress. the funny thing is that there is still someone paying the bills....because i see the sprinklers going trying to keep the grass green? it's just really rather pathetic. at least it's not another strip mall with a starbucks, thai place, nail place, chevy chase.... ;-)
     
  14. surfboarder

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    Does anyone know the reason that all work has stopped on the Shellhorn project? Nothing has been done for over a month.
     
  15. HerbertB

    HerbertB New Member

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    There was some activity a couple of weeks ago. The telephone and cable lines were moved and some poles removed. Since then...nothing! Wait, there was something else. The caterpillar disappeared from the construction site.

    Overall very disappointing!:censored:
     
  16. Lee

    Lee Permanent Vacation

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    I have a feeling the reason for no urgency is both the connection to Belmont and the widening of waxpool which is supposed to start soon.

    Lee j
     
  17. Lisa

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    There is movement today a crew of people working on the road. Odd coincidence day after election.
     
  18. Lee

    Lee Permanent Vacation

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    very very very odd looks like one day after the election things are getting done. :)

    The developers especially the bad neighbor ones are very very scared:)

    Lee j
     

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