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Fuller, a public policy professor at George Mason University who studies the local economy, said he believes that the annex will lure people for day trips but not necessarily extended stays to explore Northern Virginia. The hope is that many tourists will use a Dulles area hotel as a base to visit the air and space annex and other D.C.
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"The potential for increasing the hotels and attracting and retaining visitors for local, restaurants, retail and more is enormous," the county Economic Development Authority said in a report.
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"It's clearly going to be a huge impact," said Supervisor Michael R. A section southwest of the intersection will include more hotels, a Costco, Target and Marlo furniture store. Northeast of the Route 50/28 intersection, new hotels will add to a Fairfield Inn, Wingate Inn, Courtyard by Marriott, Bob Evans restaurant and office space. Growth probably would have occurred in the area with or without the museum, county officials said, but the annex has spurred addition of hotels, restaurants, gas stations and other services that cater to tourists. Fairfax and Loudoun counties also chipped in a few million dollars toward the project. The rest of the cloverleaf interchange is set to be finished next spring, serving a huge hotel, office and restaurant development called Dulles Discovery that will be built opposite the annex starting next year. The state is covering $40 million of the project's cost and providing an additional $30 million to build the Route 28 interchange at Barnsfield Road, which is scheduled to open partially in October with ramps allowing museum-goers direct access to the annex. Smithsonian officials estimate that the annex will draw 3.5 million tourists in the first year and 5 million annually within 12 years - short of the 9 million visitors a year to the Air and Space Museum on the Mall in Washington but plenty of people who will spend money in Fairfax and travel on an already congested road network. It will house the most extensive collection of airplanes anywhere - from the B-29 Enola Gay, which dropped the country's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima to end World War II, to technological marvels such as the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft and the space shuttle Enterprise.
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Udvar-Hazy Center after its largest donor, will be one of the world's biggest museums. The $311 million annex, dubbed the Steven F. "Virginia has never had anything like this before. "This new attraction could lift everybody's wings," said Martha Steger, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Tourism Corp., a state agency. The first of the Smithsonian Institution's museums to open in the county, the annex could attract several million visitors a year, transforming Northern Virginia's tourism industry as well as the physical landscape of the fast-growing western area near Centreville, Chantilly and Reston. 15 of the National Air and Space Museum annex, a complex of colossal hangars four miles south of the airport's main terminal. The surge in activity in western Fairfax is due to the planned opening Dec. Along Route 50, stores and more hotels have been built or are planned in the same area. On Route 28, just north of Route 50, a cloverleaf interchange is under construction that will funnel cars into a massive development of three hotels, a half-dozen restaurants and several offices. Towers of commerce - and the hopes of their builders - are rising along the southwest edge of Dulles International Airport in Fairfax County.