Dumfries now has a place for caregivers to change adult diapers at its town hall.
From Dumfries Councilwoman Cydny Neville: When you visit the John Wilmer Porter Building on Main Street in Dumfries, youâll notice a change on the first floor. One of the restrooms has been upgraded to an all gender, handicap restroom, with an adult changing station!
âHaving an accessible bathroom with an adult size changing table changes everything for caregivers and individuals with disabilities. It creates a community where we have possibilities for engagement, employment, and most importantly acceptance.â - Ms. Taj Smith
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We’re now seeing the first signs that “The Rose” will be budding.
A longtime business, 2 Guys Antiques, at 17682 Main Street in Dumfries, lost its lease and will move to Triangle. After 16 years, the building will be demolished to expand Colonial Street, which will serve as the main entrance to the The Rose hotel and gaming complex.
Colonial Downs Group, which operates the Rosies video slots gaming parlor in Dumfries and will open The Rose on top of what today is the Potomac Landfill, purchased the property for $1.5 million in July, according to Prince William County property records. The land is valued at $217,000.
William Pishock owns the antique shop and says he’s disappointed he has to pull up stakes to leave the town. “Oh, my gosh. I mean, I have people that come in from California that to visit relatives. And one of their main things to do is come to my store,” said Pishock.
Pishock says no one from the town government has talked to him to help try to find a new location for his store in the town. His new location is near the main gate of Quantico Marine Corps Base, at the intersection of Fuller Heights and Old Triangle Road.
“I’ve had friends that have had businesses and other towns that were losing their business because of road widening or other developments, and the towns have gone out of their way to contact retail spaces to try to see if there would be any interest in that business in their retail space, their empty retail spaces to maybe renegotiate or help negotiate a better rent for the space to keep the small business at the same rent. There are things in the town, or at least come into the shop and say, we’re so sorry we’re losing you,” said Pishok.
The Dumfries Town Council approved The Rose late last month. The new hotel and gaming resort in 2023 will have nearly 2,000 video slot machines, restaurants, a theater, and a 2,500-space parking garage. About 80 acres of primarily unbuildable land surrounding the hotel and gaming resort would create a park.
Before town leaders approved the project, Prince William County leaders voiced concerns about the project’s traffic to the area. The resort will generate 24,500 new vehicle trips on county roads, with the majority of those drivers using the already congested routes Interstate 95 and Route 234 to get to the town.
After years of widening roads to accommodate increasing traffic, officials are looking more and more toward "road diets" that aim to reduce the width of roads and subsequently slow traffic, they said.
On Tuesday, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors will hear a plan to take away two lanes of Graham Park Road in Dumfries. Today, the four-lane road links several residential neighborhoods to busy Route 1.
Graham Park Middle School, home to nearly 1,000 students, is located on the street. Additionally, county officials aim to build a new roundabout at Graham Park and Old Triangle roads.
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Timâs Rivershore Restaurant and Crab House will close for good Sunday after 28 years on the Potomac River outside Dumfries.
Prince William County leaders have concerns and little information about a 305-room gaming resort that could be built in Dumfries.
The resort, The Rose, would be entirely within the town, leaving the decision to approve the resort solely with the town council. However, county leaders sent a letter to Dumfries Town officials ringing the alarm bell over several key issues concerning the project.
Toping the list is traffic improvements needed for when the resort opens, possibly in 2023. The resort will generate 24,500 new vehicle trips on county roads, with the majority of those drivers using the already congested routes Interstate 95 and Route 234 to get to the town.
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If you don't live in the 1.5-square mile town of Dumfries, and you're concerned about a new 305-room gambling resort, the message is clear: Buzz off and butt out.
Potomac Local News has obtained multiple emails from Prince William County residents who wrote the Dumfries Town Council asking it oppose "The Rose," a proposed $389 million gaming resort that will include a hotel, convention hall, restaurant, sports bar, and 1,150 video slot machines. The project could open in phases starting in 2023.
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According to new traffic analysis, the streets around Dumfries will grow more congested, especially on weekends, should a new gaming resort be built.
The resort will generate an estimated an additional 24,600 vehicle trips per week, with 15,200 of those on Saturdays. Half of those cars will come from Interstate 95, exiting the freeway onto Route 234 Â at the north end of the 1.5 square mile town located in Prince William County, at the main entrance of Quantico Marine Corps Base.
The project hinges upon a longstanding plan to rebuild the intersection of Routes 1 and 234 into a four-lane quadrant intersection and extend Potomac Shores Parkway from its current terminus to accommodate all of these new cars at River Ridge Boulevard to Routes 1 and 234.
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The first of three opportunities for residents to weigh in on a proposed 200-room hotel and gaming center called "The Rose" starts Tuesday, September 7.
The new center would sit on 94 acres of land in Dumfries -- 22 of which are now the Potomac Landfill, a debris landfill next to Interstate 95. That landfill would close as part of the deal proposed by Colonial Downs, the New Kent County-based firm that operates Rosies Gaming Emporium in Dumfries, and wants to build the new $390 million gaming resort that would primarily feature slot machines.
The Rose could open sometime before 2025. And, while the Town Council won't take up the proposed gaming center at its 7 p.m. meeting on Tuesday, residents will have the opportunity to speak on the matter during citizen comment time.
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During Town Council meetings, it's where elected officials decide how to spend residents' tax money.
When the Council is not in session, the chamber doubles as a TV studio for Mayor Derrick Wood.
Wood interviewed Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Fairfax, Prince William) and Prince William County Supervisor Andrea Bailey on recent episodes of his "Spotlight Dumfries" video podcast, which is shown on YouTube.
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A plan to build a 200-room hotel and gaming resort is moving forward in Dumfries.Â
The Town Council aims to set a public hearing for the project on Tuesday. September 21, which aims to rezone 94 acres of land in the town.
- Twenty-two acres of the land is currently the Potomac Landfill, a debris landfill on the edge of town next to Interstate 95.
The rezoning application and an application for a conditional use permit that would allow the gaming machines were both filed last year.
