2 New Additions Coming To Vienna's Cedar Park Shopping Center

VIENNA, VA — Visitors to the Cedar Park Shopping Center may notice construction activities underway. Two additions to the shopping center are preparing to open — an Ace Hardware store and temporary Patrick Henry Library. Interior construction activities were active as of Thursday.

Ace Hardware, a hardware retailers cooperative, will open its Vienna location at 264 Cedar Lane Suite E. The hardware store specializes in tools, hardware and home improvement supplies. There is no initial information on an opening date.

The hardware store is located in a former CVS location that closed on April 1. Vienna is currently lacking hardware stores, except for a Sheets Wholesale location focused on decking and building construction supplies.

The other upcoming opening will be the Patrick Henry Library's temporary location. The permanent Patrick Henry Library location at 101 Maple Avenue W closed on May 9 for construction of a larger, 19,000-square-foot library and 209-space parking garage. The future library is being renamed Vienna-Carter Library, honoring the Carter family, a multiracial family with roots in Vienna and Fairfax County, including helping establish an integrated county library branch in the Town of Vienna in 1962.

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In the meantime, Patrick Henry Library will continue limited services at the temporary location, located at 262 Cedar Lane Suite C in the former El Sol restaurant space. Fairfax County Public Library has not yet announced an opening date for the temporary location, but it initially said it would open sometime in June. The 2,800-square-foot space will serve as a quick service library with a small browsing section, pickup of holds, returns, public Wi-Fi, Chromebooks for on-site use and select programming like story time.

In other news for the library project, rising construction costs are prompting revised contributions from localities. On Tuesday, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved an updated funding agreement with the Town of Vienna for the shared parking garage. According to board documents, the Town of Vienna agreed to an increase from $4.2 million to $4.79 million due to higher anticipated construction costs.

The town and county are sharing costs for the parking garage, while the library facility is a county-funded project. The parking garage will feature 125 spaces for library users, and another 84 parking spaces are reserved for commuter parking and public parking through the Town of Vienna. The library construction project is expected to begin construction in the summer, with occupancy aimed for summer 2027.

The community has another chance to say farewell to the current Patrick Henry Library at an event centered around the library's Liberty Amendments Month mural. The Goodbye Liberty Amendments Mural Commemorative Event will take place on June 25 from 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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