Aslin Beer Company plans to open its doors Sept. 19, co-owner Andrew Kelley said.

The nanobrewery, just over the Reston line at 257 Sunset Park Drive, will be Herndon’s first small-batch brewery.

Kelley, a 27-year-old management consultant who lives in Clarendon, is partnering with his brother-in-law Kai  Leszkowicz, a 29-year-old Fairfax County employee who lives in Herndon, on the project. The third business partner is Richard Thompson, who will run the day-to-day operation.

Kelley and Leszkowicz have been home brewing for several years. Read more in this previous Reston Now story.

Aslin will start out serving six beers on tap, said Kelley: an IPA, Double IPA, Imperial Stout, Lime Kolsch, Rye Ale, Saison, Black IPA.

The brew house, which will have 28 seats, opens at 11 a.m. on Sept. 19. Here are the usual hours: 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays; 3 to 10 p.m. Fridays; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturdays; noon to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

There’s a new restaurant coming to the former location of Macaroni Grill at 1845 Fountain Drive in Reston.

Not Your Average Joe’s, a Massachusetts-based restaurant chain, has signed a lease for the location and has filed permits for renovations.

Not Your Average Joe’s has 20 locations in New England, as well as in Bethesda, Gaithersburg, Leesburg and Woodbridge.

Not Your Average Joe’s is known for stone-hearth pizzas, salads, unique burger combos and other casual fare. See menu on the company website.

The restaurant also has happy hour specials such as $3 draft beers, $5 nachos and Oyster and Martini Mondays ($1.25 oysters and $6 martinis).

No opening date has been announced.

The Macaroni Grill closed fairly suddenly in December. The Spectrum shopping center where it was located is expected to undergo a massive redevelopment, but that may not begin for several years.

Kendra Scott, the national upscale costume jewelry store with expansion plans in the Washington, DC., area, expects to open its Reston Town Center store in early December, a store spokeswoman said.

In June, Kendra Scott filed permits at 11900 Market Street and is into the permitting and construction process.

The line launched in Texas in 2002 and is now sold at major department stores such as Nordstrom, as well at Kendra Scott stores nationwide.

The Reston store will be the third of the four area stores that will open soon, the spokeswoman said. The Bethesda Row location recently opened its doors, and a new location at the Mosaic District will open Monday.

Most pieces use brightly colored  stones and natural materials for “statement necklaces” that retail for under $120. Earrings are generally in the $50 to $100 range. The store also has a Game Day Collection, where sports fans can purchase jewelry in team colors.

Photos: Kendra Scott store in Texas (top); Skylar earrings by Kendra Scott/Courtesy Kendra Scott

Chick-fil-A at 12160 Sunset Hills Rd. shut its doors last Friday, but the closure is just temporary.

The store will undergo a major remodeling project, franchise owner David Kim said on the store’s website. The restaurant will re-open in October.

Besides being  a very popular lunch spot — the drive-thru line often reaches back for several blocks — Reston’s Chick-fil-A is also a committed community member, offering special theme nights, family nights, Mother-Son Date Nights, Lego nights and live music. The store also has been very supportive of local teams and school fundraisers.

Kim said the store will reopen “better than ever” and with a special grand reopening event.

Follow the business’s progress on its Facebook page.

The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority provided services to 25 companies that added more than 1,100 jobs in Fairfax County in the second quarter of 2015. More than half of the jobs (595) were in Reston, says the FCEDA.

Among the growth in Reston:

• Walmart Technology, the IT and cybersecurity portion of the large retailer (173 jobs)
• TEKsystems, an IT staffing subsidiary of Allegis Group, the largest privately owned talent management firm in the world (324 jobs)
• Canvas Solutions, software (35 jobs)
• Datapipe, security and IT services (35 jobs)
• Drainage and Erosion Solutions, construction (10 jobs)
• Lookout Inc., mobile cybersecurity (9 jobs)
• Vrid, ecommerce (5 jobs)
• Washington First Bank, banking (4 jobs)

Janis Parker Moore, senior HR manager for Walmart Technology, said locating an office in Reston is a strategic move to take advantage of the skill set of local employees.

“Today, one of the largest technology-based challenges exists in the retail sector, and Walmart is actively recruiting the world’s best STEM-specialized talent that will help the company make this historic pivot,” she said. “Our Reston office in Fairfax County is an extension of that effort, drawing upon the industry leading talent in the surrounding areas to help grow expertise and best-in-class technologies.”

Gerald Gordon, president and CEO of the FCEDA, agrees.

“The announcements by Walmart Technology, TEKsystems and Intelsat (109 jobs in Tysons Corner) illustrate how market leaders in diverse technology sectors look to Fairfax County to find the workforce and the partners they need to be successful, ” Gordon said in a statement. “This is what makes Fairfax County a market leader as a business location, most notably for IT and professional services firms.”

A Reston company has developed a tablet computer that can link inmates with the outside world while still maintaining the kind of security a prison system demands.

Global Tel*Link (GTL)’s Inspire inmate tablets have telephone, educational materials, and streaming music capabilities, which provide secure communication and educational materials, among other benefits. It also can prevent fights over using the public phones, jail personnel say. The tablets do not have general Internet access.

“We believe that the Inspire devices are the future of inmate communications, education and entertainment,” Anthony Bambocci, GTL’s Chief Marketing Officer, said in a release. “They improve a facility’s operational efficiencies by reducing costs and conflicts over access to phones, and have nearly limitless educational possibilities. … Our devices have been inspected, reviewed and tested by corrections security staff and other experts in the field, making us confident they adhere to the strictest correctional security standards.”

GTL, which provides a number of telcom products for correctional institutions, says the tablets benefit both inmates and correctional facilities. For the facilities, using them will save paper and streamline administrative tasks. The facility can also load the tablets with educational content, which could include prison rules and guidelines, training manuals for inmate jobs, life skills educational materials and more.

The Reston company says that entertainment options such as streaming music have the potential to help inmates to better cope with their circumstances and promote positive mood. The combinations of these apps can better prepare inmates for life upon release, with the intent to reduce recidivism, they said.

The tablet is being tested at several facilities nationwide. In Alameda County, Calif., inmates are able to use the device to place calls of up to four hours long in the privacy and comfort of their own cell. That offers increased communication with friends and family, which may also reduce recidivism, officials there said. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Detention and Corrections Unit has also provided educational content on the tablets.

“Using the Inspire tablets has allowed us to provide valuable educational content to our inmates, helping them to prepare for productive lives once they are released,” said Gregory Ahern, Alameda County Sheriff. “In addition, providing tablets to individuals has lessened conflicts surrounding the use of traditional inmate phones and given inmates productive ways to spend their time.”

Many Reston residents are still mourning the loss of Barnes & Noble, which closed its store at The Spectrum in early 2013.

The departure left Reston without a place to buy — or at least browse for — new books. The Reston closure came at a time when Barnes & Noble was closing about 20 stores a year, due, in part, to the rise in the popularity of e-readers. The large Georgetown location also closed around the same time as Reston’s.

But that doesn’t mean new ones will “never” open.

The Washington Business Journal reported on Thursday that a new Barnes & Noble will open in at One Loudoun, a mixed-use development in Ashburn, in 2017.

Construction of the 18,000-square-foot store will begin next year, WBJ reports.

Does this mean all hope is lost for Barnes & Noble re-opening here? With new retail developments planned at The Spectrum, RTC West, Reston Heights and Crescent/Lake Anne, there will certainly be available space. Stay tuned.

Photo: Former Reston Barnes & Noble in 2012

The Reston-Herndon area’s newest exercise studio opened its doors on Wednesday. Pure Barre Reston, part of a nationwide franchise of barre exercise studios, is now offering classes at 12975 Highland Crossing Dr., in the Woodland Park Shopping Center in Herndon.

Pure Barre is offering a new client special: a month of unlimited classes for $100. Drop-in classes are $25. Other series rates are available on the Pure Barre Reston website. Classes are offered seven days a week. Check out the Reston location’s schedule on the website.

Pure Barre offers classes mainly at a ballet barre, where students use small muscle movement to get a total body workout “that lifts your seat, tones your thighs, and burns fat in record-breaking time,” says the Pure Barre website.

“It is an intelligent exercise and utilizes the ballet barre to perform small isometric movements in order to create long, lean muscle without bulk,” says Pure Barre.

Pure Barre, which already has Fairfax studio, will soon be opening locations in Ashburn and Vienna.

Photos: Pure Barre Reston/Credit: Pure Barre Reston Facebook

The Reston Farm Market & Country Store is now open under new management, which hopes to return the stand at Route 7 and Baron Cameron Avenue to its good, old days.

The market, first opened in 1976, enjoyed a brisk business until a few years ago, particularly in fall, when it offered pumpkins and kids activities.

Managers Lexi and Justin Stalcup have brought in a kid-sized train, a moon bounce and a potbellied pig named Foxy to appeal to shoppers with children.

The market is also selling fresh flowers and plants, locally grown produce and other farm stand items.

The market, located at 10800 Baron Cameron Ave., is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Justin Stalcup said he hopes they will stay open year-round.

The Reston/Herndon area’s newest exercise studio will open July 15.

Pure Barre Reston will finally start holding classes in its new studio at 12975 Highland Crossing Dr. That’s in the Woodland Park Crossing Center in Herndon.

Pure Barre is a franchise of ballet barre exercise studios where the emphasis is on small, controlled muscle movements (in other words, there is no actual ballet dancing).

Pure Barre has studios nearby in McLean, Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax.

In 2014, a Pure Barre franchisee had intended to open on Market Street at Reston Town Center. Lease issues caused the deal to fall through, however.

The new Reston studio is offering a pre-opening special — Five weeks of unlimited classes for $100. Drop-in classes generally  cost $23 per session. Email [email protected] for more information

Photo Courtesy Pure Barre

Coworking space UberOffices has signed a lease for a large location at JBG’s RTC West development.

UberOffices will take up 40,000 square feet over two floors in the development at Sunset Hills Road and Town Center Parkway.

Coworking spaces will be available in September, says UberOffices CEO Raymond Rahbar.

RTC West is a forthcoming project from JBG that will turn some existing ground floor office space (15,000 square feet) and add about 25,000 square feet of retail to what is currently an office park.

The addition of RTC West brings amenities closer to where the Reston Town Center Metro stop will eventually open in early 2019.

The development has already signed a major retail tenant: Cooper’s Hawk Winery. The Chicago-based restaurant and bar will take over nearly 10,000 square feet of space.

Rahbar says expanding to Reston is an important addition for the company, which has co-working spaces in Rosslyn, Tysons Corner, Bethesda and Dupont Circle.

“Reston Town Center has been one of the most important business parks not just in the region but also in the country,” he said. “We are very excited to be able to expand here.”

Co-working spaces offer small businesses, startup and other companies office space in a collaborative environment. Tenants can lease anything from a single desk for $300 a month to a 12-person office. There are shared amenities such as lounges, conference rooms, quiet call rooms and kitchens.

Visit UberOffices’ website for pricing and more information.

Note: UberOffices is a Local News Now advertiser.

Photo: UnderOffices Tysons Corner/Credit: UberOffices

Hunters’ Woods Village Center is getting a new tenant. Jersey’s Mikes subs has signed a lease and filed permits for renovations at 2304 Hunters Woods Plaza.

Jersey Mike’s is a national restaurant franchise with more than 1,500 stores, including locations nearby locations Chantilly, Fairfax and Sterling.

One of the newest stores opened this week in Vienna, where the owners held a fundraiser, as most Jersey Mike’s do as a grand opening party. The Vienna party benefitted the Semper Fi Fund, which helps injured members of the armed forces.

No opening date has been announced.

A new Reston company wants to do for electrolytes what Keurig pods did for coffee and fitness Apps did for your steps walked in a day.

LifeFuels, with offices near Plaza America, officially launched last week. The product pairs nutrition drink pods with a smart water bottle, giving health-conscious folks feedback (via App, of course) on how their caffeine and hydration day is going.

“We are changing the way people consume vitamin supplements,” says Jonathon Perrelli, LifeFuels’ co-founder and CEO. “This way you are taking vitamins throughout the day.

Perrelli, a Virginia Tech grad and angel investor in several area companies, says LifeFuels bridges the gap between nutrition and wearable technology.

Here’s how it works:

1. Purchase the Dispensing Bottle (Preorder for $99; will be $199 when sales begin in the fall).

2. Visit the The FuelPod™ Marketplace online. LifeFuels has teamed with a number of vitamin, mineral, supplement and flavor products, which package their product in a recyclable pod for easy consumption and tracking.

3. Use the LifeFuels App. The App will pick up other info from your other fitness Apps and wearables (i.e., a Fit Bit) to bring you a complete picture of your nutrition, hydration and activity information.

“Today, fitness wearables measure basic output like steps, heart rate and pace, but activity tracking is only a partial view into our wellness picture,” said Perrelli. “The LifeFuels system uses intuitive products and concepts to smartly automate and track the missing piece: what we put into our bodies.”

The BPA-free bottle holds 16 ounces of liquid, plus five, one-ounce recyclable FuelPods which can each provide up to 30 servings. Perrelli envisions a child-size bottle in the future as well.

LifeFuels plans to build product through social media and brand ambassadors, active people who can spread the news about LifeFuel at the gym, the running trail, basketball court and other high-hydration locations, says Perrelli.

In the meantime, more than two dozen employees are working on the product development and launch at the offices at 11501 Sunset Hills Rd. LifeFuels is also hiring. It is especially looking for a Chief Marketing Officer and a iOS Developer.

Learn more about LifeFuels on its website, and on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram.

Photo: LifeFuels bottle/Courtesy LifeFuels

Remodeling is well underway at 11790J Reston Parkway, where Bento House Japanese Restaurant plans to open soon.

The restaurant signed a lease for the former space of Active Family Chiropractic in Reston’s Home Depot Shopping Center earlier this year.

Bento House owner Eric Zhou said at the time he hoped to be open by late spring.

Bento House will be a locally owned, counter service Japanese spot, he said.

Meanwhile, the future of the Home Depot Center — considered a “convenience center” by the Reston Master Plan — will remain as such as part of the revised Reston Master Plan.

The plan changes for Reston’s village centers, convenience centers and neighborhoods were approved by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors earlier this month.

The 22-acre retail area at Baron Cameron Avenue and Reston Parkway was originally planned to be part of Reston Town Center, but was never developed to the same scale or design as town center or the nearby Spectrum.

However, with the Spectrum slated for a massive mixed-use overhaul, the Master Plan Phase 2 took a look at the future of the center, which has a variety of stores, many of them locally owned.

The final report said the community is willing to accept additional uses in this area, such as residential, hotel, and office. However, the community does not desire the density or intensity of development allowed in the Reston Town Center.

The Home Depot center is likely to remain the same level of density and uses, but look for opportunities to improve pedestrian and bicycle connectivity.