Clarendon Alliance’ Web Redesign In Testing Phase

We apologize for any inconvenience.  CA staff are doing their best to keep the site functional as we make these important changes. Please contact the Clarendon Alliance at 703-812-8881, or by email at alliance@clarendon.org if you have questions, or experience any issues.  (P.S.  We know there is an issue with Windows XP computers which run (because they have to) Internet… Read more →

Arlington Festival of the Arts!

Arlington Festival of the Arts!

A brand new Art Festival is coming to  Clarendon.  At its April 29 Annual Meeting, Executive Director Matt Hussmann announced that the Clarendon Alliance would partner with the Arlington Arts Center and Howard Alan to present the Arlington Festival of the Arts on June 22 and 23 in Clarendon. More than 150 artists are expected to participate in this juried… Read more →

Clarendon Alliance Annual Meeting is April 29

Clarendon Alliance Annual Meeting is April 29

The Clarendon Alliance will hold its Annual Meeting on Monday, April 29, at Whitlow’s-on-Wilson.  The purpose of the meeting is to elect Board members for the Clarendon Alliance. The Annual Meeting will begin with a networking hour at 5:30 with appetizers and a cash bar.  Around 6:30 or so (when we have a quorum) we will call the meeting to… Read more →

Register for the Clarendon Farmers Market

Register for the Clarendon Farmers Market

The Clarendon Farmers Market is entering its 15th season, and the applications are now being accepted. Please click on the headline or the poster to open this post, and then you will be able to use the links below.  Click here for general information about the Market, click here for the Market rules, and click here for the online application…. Read more →

Register for the Mardi Gras Parade

Register for the Mardi Gras Parade

The 15th Annual Clarendon-Courthouse Mardi Gras Parade will be held Tuesday, February 12, at 8 PM along Wilson Boulevard between North Barton and North Irving Streets. Once again the Clarendon Alliance will organize the largest and best Mardi Gras parade in the metro area, and you are cordially invited to participate!  For more information, please click here.

Arlington Small Business Saturday is November 24

Arlington Small Business Saturday is November 24

Small Business Saturday is sort of  the antithesis to “Black Friday”.  Not much driving, no crush of bargain hunters, but still, good deals from locally owned businesses.  What’s not to like? Basically, Small Business Saturday is a reminder that we “consumers”  have choices about where we shop, and that those choices have economic consequences.  The Clarendon Alliance has long supported… Read more →

Clarendon is Blue Chip

Clarendon is Blue Chip

“Urban real estate scholar Christopher B. Leinberger has studied neighborhoods in the Washington region and makes that case that walkable, urban places have overtaken the drivable suburban environment as the dominant form of real estate development in the area. “Clarendon is the top urban retail and entertainment destination in Virginia, hands down.  There is further development capacity in the neighborhood’s… Read more →