Located at the center of the U.S. East Coast and within a one-day drive of 47% of the U.S. population, Virginia offers an ideal location to serve East Coast customers or to provide a single gateway to the U.S. market.
One of the only metros nationally with two top-30 airports – Ronald Regan Washington National Airport (DCA) and Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) – providing 1,011 domestic and 103 international flights daily
Daily flight options to key West Coast tech hubs
X Flights to Seattle
X Flights to San Francisco/Bay Area
X Flights to Los Angeles
We have chosen Fairfax County, considered the East Coast center of technology innovation, for its proximity to the nation’s capital, a vibrant business community, access to several international airports and Metro’s Silver Line, and an incredibly diverse and highly educated workforce.
Michael Saylor CEO, MicroSrategy
Virginia Railway Express commuter trains carry roughly 20,000 passengers daily from the outer suburban communities to Alexandria, Crystal City and downtown Washington, D.C. Boasting an impressive on-time performance rate of 79% for it high-speed service starting in Washington, D.C., Amtrak connects about 1.5 million Virginia passengers across the U.S. each year and provides easy access to the Northeast corridor via the Northeast Regional line.
45% of people under 35 bus, train, carpool, or walk to work
3rd nationally among large metros in share of population that does not drive alone to work
500 miles of bike lanes, shared bike routes, and shared use paths, expected to double by 2040
To ease congestion that comes with a rapidly expanding population, NOVA is investing in driving technologically innovative approaches. More than $15 billion in fully funded and planned multimodal improvements have been implemented or will be completed in the next three years.
In 2017, Virginia and its local partners committed to $765 million in new transportation investments to enhance the networks already in place in Arlington and Alexandria. These investments focus on metro stations, pedestrian access, Route 1, rail and gateway extensions, surface transit facilities, and multi-modal street/corridor connectivity.