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15 Things You Need to Know This Morning

15 Things You Need to Know This Morning

What You Didn’t Know About Stephanie Landrum

Photo: Alexandria’s first visit to South by Southwest in Austin in March.
Title: President/CEO, Alexandria Economic Development Partnership.
Years on the job: 10 at AEDP; president/CEO since March.
Alexandria stats: 22M SF of office with 4.6M SF in permitting or under construction; 1M SF of new hotel development planned and under construction in Old Town, Potomac Yard and Carlyle; 47 neighborhood and community shopping centers; 82% of shops and restaurants on King Street are independents.
Memorable project: National Science Foundation HQ relocation to Alexandria – “very” competitive, three-year GSA procurement process that ended in 2013. 600k SF office is now under construction at Eisenhower Metro. 
Grew up: Alexandria in Fairfax County.
Current home: Old Town.
Schools: UVA (bachelors, city planning and MBA).
First job: Lifeguard and swim coach.
Job in another life: Sports agent.
Daily habit: Read work and personal Twitter feeds.
Favorite apps: Pandora and Instagram.
Favorite movie: The Princess Bride.
Favorite restaurant: Cheesetique (Shirlington).
Favorite music: Today, Sam Hunt; tomorrow, Beyonce.
Favorite vacation spot: Anywhere with a beach.
Guilty pleasure: The Bachelor franchise (“Yes, all of them.”)
Bucket list: Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Hobbies: Travel, spinning, dreaming about opening a business. 
Startling fact: Inked first business deal at age 8 – parents signed contract never requiring her to eat meat again. “I’ve been a vegetarian ever since!”

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