Six New Tenants Join the Marketplace at Madison Crescent!

A 43-Acre Mixed Use Village Featuring Upscale Retail, Offices and Residences
in Western Prince William County

McLean, VA. [March 3, 2008]. Shoppers in Western Prince William County will have several new dining and retail destinations opening soon at The Marketplace at Madison Crescent located at the intersection of James Madison Highway (Rt 15) and Lee Highway (Rt 29) in Gainesville, Virginia.

The Marketplace is part of a new mixed-use village offering upscale retail, office and residential opportunities. Joining grocery anchor Harris Teeter are new tenants Citigroup/SmithBarney; Desiderio Italian Restaurant; Atlantic Billiards & Spas;Seasons Cards & Gifts; Avalon Nails; and Sleepy’s, The Mattress Professionals. All are scheduled to open for business in the spring.

“With the addition of these new tenants, The Marketplace at Madison Crescent is now 90% leased,” said John D. Rhoad, Jr., Managing Principal, RMJ Development Group (www.rmjdevelopment.com). “Madison Crescent is bringing energy and vibrancy to this important and growing part of Western Prince William County.”

The Marketplace at Madison Crescent already boasts Harris Teeter, Maggie Moo’s Ice Cream & Treatery, Starbucks, AT&T Wireless, Subway, Hair Cuttery and Marketplace Dry Cleaners. Brooklyn Brothers Pizzeria is scheduled to open in March and Chevy Chase Bank is currently under construction and scheduled to open in May. Adjacent to the Marketplace is The Madison Crescent Professional Building, a 3-story Class A office building, where Citigroup/SmithBarney will join current tenants, SunTrust Mortgage; Prince William Family Medicine; Anytime Fitness, a gym open 24 hours, 7 days a week; and SR Clarke, a corporate recruiting firm.

The Marketplace at Madison Crescent includes 124,000 square feet of retail space professionally managed by Community Realty Company, Inc. (CRC) of Greenbelt, Maryland. Madison Crescent also has for-lease and for-sale opportunities available for over 240,000 sf of additional Class A office space next to the Marketplace.

The residential component of Madison Crescent is being built by Miller & Smith. The award-winning homebuilder is currently selling its Royal Crescent Collection of luxury townhome-condominiums featuring dramatic living areas on two finished levels, three bedrooms, attached one-car garages, and balconies.

Miller & Smith recently held a model home grand opening event at Madison Crescent which attracted over 100 potential purchasers. As part of its grand opening celebration and for a limited time only, Miller & Smith is offering purchasers at Madison Crescent a trip to Bath, England. Bath is the world’s first planned community from which Madison Crescent takes its inspiration. For specific details regarding residential sales, please contact Miller & Smith at 703-753-2694 or at www.millerandsmith.com.

In addition to having the convenience of shopping and dining options in their community, residents of Madison Crescent will enjoy use of a planned community pool. The homes are also conveniently located near Crescent Park, centered in the heart of the community. Benches, a gazebo and a fountain are situated around Crescent Park offering residents and visitors a place to sit, relax and enjoy the company of friends and family. Creating a sense of arrival with views towards Crescent Park is a unique arched bridge that carries drivers over a water feature at the entrance to Madison Crescent.

Madison Crescent has been lauded by County leaders as an example of “smart growth”. Its combination of shopping, dining, residential and commercial uses all situated around a spacious park creates a pedestrian-friendly, vibrant neighborhood that has become a tremendous asset to the surrounding area.

RMJ Development Group is a multi-disciplinary regional real estate development firm focusing on high quality mixed-use projects, active-adult lifestyle communities, multi-family projects, commercial properties and land development. In addition to Madison Crescent, other recent RMJ Development Group communities include: The Evergreens at Smith Run, an upscale 55+ apartment rental community in Fredericksburg, Virginia; the award-winning Evergreens at Columbia Town Center, a luxury 55+ apartment rental community in Columbia, Maryland which was honored by the National Association of Homebuilders with the 2006 Best of Seniors Housing Award and the 2005 Multifamily Executive Award by Multifamily Executive magazine; and The Preserve at Smith Run, an upscale community of single family homes and townhomes in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

For more information on Madison Crescent, please visit their website at www.madisoncrescent.com.  For information on office space and the hotel at Madison Crescent, contact Dennis Burke or Douglas Erdman of CRC Commercial at 800-660-0307 or email to dburke@crc-commercial.com or derdman@crc-commercial.com.  For information on retail leasing opportunities, contact John A. Asadoorian of Asadoorian Retail Solutions at 202-333-9066 or email to info@asaretail.com.  For information on residential opportunities, contact Miller and Smith at 703-753-2694, or visit their website at www.millerandsmith.com.  For more information on RMJ Development Group, LLC, or general inquiries regarding Madison Crescent, telephone John Rhoad at 703-905-9557, or email him at jrhoad@rmjdevelopment.com.

The RMJ Development Group, LLC, is a multi-disciplinary, regional real estate development firm with headquarters in McLean, Virginia. Our focus is the development of high quality mixed-use communities, commercial properties, multi-family properties, and land development. Collectively, the principals of RMJ have been involved in the development of a variety of commerical/office parks and mixed-use project, as well as over 1,700 units of age-qualified, 55+ condominiums, over 10,000 units of market rate rental housing and over 3,500 single-family homes. For more information, please visit their website at www.rmjdevelopment.com or phone 703-905-9557, or email jrhoad@rmjdevelopment.com.