Condos, townhomes and single-family homes across 1,200 planned acres in Fairfax County — with its own Towne Center and two Blue Line stations close by.
Kingstowne is Fairfax County's large-scale answer to planned suburban living — roughly 1,200 acres of former gravel pit, rezoned in 1984 and built out village by village into more than 5,300 condominiums, townhomes and single-family homes wrapped around a Towne Center of its own. It carries an Alexandria mailing address and ZIP 22315, but it sits in unincorporated Fairfax County, not the City of Alexandria — a distinction that governs taxes, schools and county services. Two Metro stations, the Springfield interchange and Fort Belvoir are all within a short drive of the community's edges.
The land under Kingstowne was a gravel operation run by Lehigh Cement Company before Fairfax County rezoned the tract for mixed use in 1984 — at the time the second-largest rezoning in the county's history, according to Miller & Smith, which handled the rezoning and says it built 1,500 of the homes. The Halle Companies began construction in the late 1980s and the community was laid out in stages the developers called villages — South Village, Middle Village and North Village. Its boundaries are generally described as Franconia Road to the north, South Van Dorn Street to the east, Telegraph Road to the south and Beulah Street to the west. The Census Bureau first recognized Kingstowne as a place of its own, Kingstowne CDP, in the 2010 count, carved from the former Franconia and Rose Hill CDPs; the 2020 census recorded 16,825 residents across about 2.9 square miles. It shares ZIP code 22315 with neighboring Island Creek and Hayfield, and has its own USPS branch, the Kingstowne Post Office at 5900 Barclay Drive.
Because build-out ran from the late 1980s into the 2000s, Kingstowne offers something unusual inside a single community — a real spread of construction eras and product types within a couple of miles. The earliest phases brought two- and three-level townhomes and garden-style condominiums; later phases added larger townhomes, some with garages, along with single-family houses on compact planned-community lots. Adjacent Island Creek, built between 1994 and 2000 under its own separate association, adds roughly 100 single-family homes, more than 600 townhomes and about 330 condominiums in garden and townhouse-style buildings. Infill has continued at the edges: Miller & Smith returned with Walhaven at Kingstowne, a 32-unit active-adult project, and The Crest of Alexandria at 7900 Telegraph Road — an age-restricted community on Kingstowne's southern edge — brought single-family homes, elevator townhomes and condominiums. Touring here, the questions that actually move the needle are which era the building envelope dates to, whether roof and siding sit with a sub-association, and whether the unit has a garage.
This is the question that catches buyers off guard, and it deserves a straight answer. Nearly every home pays into the Kingstowne Residential Owners Corporation, the master association that owns and operates the community-wide amenities — two outdoor pools, two fitness centers with an aerobics studio, tennis and pickleball courts, multiple tot lots and several miles of walking trails through the green space. The second layer is what surprises people: most clusters and condominium buildings also have their own sub-association, and that is typically the body responsible for roofs, siding and exterior paint, parking rules, trash, building-envelope insurance, elevator service where it exists, and reserves. A condominium purchase therefore usually carries two assessments; a fee-simple townhome may carry one or two; and the totals differ meaningfully from cluster to cluster, which is why a monthly figure quoted for one street tells you very little about the next. Virginia gives you a statutory review-and-cancellation window once the association resale certificate is delivered — the single disclosure document that replaced the old condominium resale certificate and planned-community disclosure packet under Virginia's 2023 Resale Disclosure Act. Read the reserve study, any pending special assessment, and the parking and rental restrictions inside that window — in Kingstowne those documents are a genuine line item, not a formality.
The Towne Center is the community's commercial core: roughly 45 acres and about 410,000 square feet of retail along Kingstowne Boulevard, with a Safeway at 5980 Kingstowne Towne Center, a Giant and an Aldi in the wider Kingstowne retail cluster, a Regal cinema, and a run of everyday stores including TJ Maxx, HomeGoods, Ross and Kohl's, plus dental, optometry and similar services. The Halle Companies developed it; Federal Realty Investment Trust bought part of the retail portfolio for $200 million in 2022. It is also on the verge of change, and buyers should know this before they write: on May 5, 2026 the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved converting a Towne Center parking lot into two residential buildings totaling 646 units at 5941 and 5961 Kingstowne Village Parkway, each rising to a maximum of 150 feet, and dropped the ground-floor retail requirement carried by the earlier 2020 approval. A short drive south, Hilltop Village Center at Telegraph Road and Beulah Street has been anchored by Wegmans, at 7905 Hilltop Village Center Drive, since June 2015.
Two Blue Line stations bracket the community. Van Dorn Street station, at 5690 Eisenhower Avenue, opened June 15, 1991 and sits roughly two miles north of Kingstowne, reached up South Van Dorn Street. Franconia–Springfield, at 6880 Frontier Drive, is the Blue Line's southwestern terminus, opened June 29, 1997, and doubles as a Virginia Railway Express stop on the Fredericksburg Line; its garage holds 5,069 spaces, the largest on the Metro system. Fairfax Connector routes 321 and 322 run the same loop in opposite directions, linking Kingstowne to both stations. By car, the Franconia–Springfield Parkway (Route 289) ties the community to the Fairfax County Parkway (Route 286) and to the Springfield interchange — the I-95/I-395/I-495 junction known locally as the Mixing Bowl, whose roughly $675 million, eight-year rebuild wrapped up in 2007 and eliminated the old left-side weaving movements. Downtown Washington is about 13 miles northeast.
Telegraph Road forms Kingstowne's southern boundary and runs south toward Fort Belvoir, one of several large employment sites within a short drive. Verify gate access before you assume a route: as of the Army's most recent update to that page (January 2026), Fort Belvoir's own installation-access page lists the Telegraph Gate as closed until further notice, with Tulley Gate operating 24/7 as the main visitor entrance and Lieber and J.J. Kingman gates on limited hours. North of the main post, the Fort Belvoir North Area in Springfield holds NGA Campus East — the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters, completed in September 2011, which consolidated roughly 8,500 employees and contractors from seven separate sites across the region. The Transportation Security Administration moved its headquarters into a 625,000-square-foot building at 6595 Springfield Center Drive in February 2021.
Kingstowne sits in Fairfax County's Franconia District, represented on the Board of Supervisors by Rodney L. Lusk. County services consolidated substantially in 2026: the roughly 90,000-square-foot Franconia Governmental Center at 7130 Silver Lake Boulevard opened April 11, 2026, housing the new Kingstowne Regional Library on its second floor along with the Franconia Police Station, the district supervisor's office, the Franconia Museum, an active adult center and a child care center. The library replaced the Kingstowne Community Library, which had operated at 6500 Landsdowne Centre since June 2000 and closed in February 2026. Fairfax County Public Schools serves the community, and Kingstowne is split between two high school pyramids — Hayfield Secondary at 7630 Telegraph Road, which houses grades 7 through 12, and Edison High School at 5801 Franconia Road, with Twain Middle serving part of the eastern side. Attendance boundaries do not follow the ZIP code line, so confirm any specific address with the FCPS boundary locator rather than relying on a listing sheet.
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Garden and townhouse-style condominiums, townhomes ranging from early two- and three-level designs to later models with garages, and single-family houses on compact planned-community lots — built in phases from the late 1980s into the 2000s, with newer infill and age-restricted construction at the edges. Because the eras differ so much within a mile or two, the age of the building envelope and whether a home has a garage often matter more than square footage alone.
No. Kingstowne has an Alexandria mailing address and ZIP code 22315 — it has its own USPS branch on Barclay Drive — but it is unincorporated Fairfax County, in the Franconia supervisory district. That means Fairfax County real estate taxes, the Fairfax County Police Department, and Fairfax County Public Schools rather than Alexandria City's. It is worth confirming on any listing you look at.
There are two layers. The Kingstowne Residential Owners Corporation is the master association and funds the community-wide amenities — two outdoor pools, two fitness centers with an aerobics studio, tennis and pickleball courts, tot lots and several miles of trails. Most clusters and condominium buildings then have their own sub-association covering roofs, siding, parking, trash, building insurance, elevators where present, and reserves. Condominium buyers generally pay into both, and totals vary by cluster. Request the full resale certificate and read the reserve study and any special assessment before your statutory review window closes.
It depends where in Kingstowne. Two Blue Line stations bracket the community: Franconia–Springfield, at 6880 Frontier Drive, is closest to the Towne Center and the western side, and is also a Virginia Railway Express stop on the Fredericksburg Line with a 5,069-space garage, the largest on the Metro system. Van Dorn Street, at 5690 Eisenhower Avenue, is closer from the northeastern edge, reached up South Van Dorn Street. Fairfax Connector routes 321 and 322 loop between Kingstowne and both stations. Check the drive from the specific address you are considering.
Fairfax County Public Schools. The community is divided between two high school pyramids: Hayfield Secondary at 7630 Telegraph Road, which serves grades 7 through 12, and Edison High School at 5801 Franconia Road, with Twain Middle serving part of the eastern side and Lane and Hayfield among the elementary schools drawn on. Attendance boundaries do not follow ZIP code lines, so verify a specific address with the FCPS boundary locator before relying on any assignment.
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