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The JBG Companies acquires prime apartments near transit

Silver Spring’s Falkland Chase apartments fit company’s portfolio  

Chevy Chase, MD (April 2, 2013) – A prominent apartment community in downtown Silver Spring has changed hands. The JBG Companies has purchased Falkland Chase apartments from Home Properties of Rochester.

“Falkland Chase is a great addition to our residential portfolio,” said David Paul, a JBG partner. “This is a well-located, transit-oriented community that we are proud to own. We are committed to providing excellent customer service to the residents at Falkland Chase from day one.”

Metropolitan Performing Arts Alliance (MPAA) of Alexandria and Fairfax Station, Va. will be hosting its first Annual Benefit Concert at the Ernst Cultural Center at the Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale campus on Sun., April 7 at 5 p.m. showcasing the dance companies of Metropolitan Youth Ballet, Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble and iMpulse Jazz Ensemble. The benefit concert is campaigning to raise more than $100,000 for construction of the new Alliance Theatre, an extension of Metropolitan Fine Arts Center in Alexandria, Va. Tickets are $40 per person and can be purchased at www.metrofinearts.com.

MANASSAS, Va. (WUSA9) -- A babysitter was arrested and charged with murder and child abuse on Tuesday, Manassas City Police Department said.

Jessica Fraraccio, 21, of Manassas, has been charged in connection with the on-going investigation of the August 22, 2012 death of a 23-month-old child, police said.

The child died while Fraraccio was babysitting the child at a house on the 9300 block of Birchwood Court, police said.

She is being held at the ADC without bond pending on her appearance in Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court.