"The University of Virginia is digging its roots deeper into the Washington suburbs.

A new Fairfax County campus announced earlier this month is expected to expand and consolidate the school’s programming in Northern Virginia, home to the largest concentration of UVa alumni and prospective undergraduates.

UVa has leased the second and third floors, about 55,000 square feet, of a building in the Inova Center for Personalized Health complex in Falls Church, where it has an existing collaboration with Inova Fairfax Hospital, which serves as a teaching hospital for UVa medical students.

Work is under way on the campus at 8095 Innovation Park Drive, where the university says it will offer classrooms and collaborative work spaces that will host full-time UVa students and serve as a hub for working professionals taking online courses, high schoolers in summer programs and businesses that offer workforce training through the school.

The leaders of UVa Northern Virginia said the campus, scheduled to open in January 2025, will offer something different than what can be found 100 miles south in Charlottesville, where Founding Father Thomas Jefferson established his Academical Village in 1819," reports The Daily Progress.