Fairfax officials target area blight

Fairfax County officials are out to strip away blight, which often takes the form of abandoned buildings — unwelcome eyesores for county residents.

The county removed one of the area’s larger eyesores when officials demolished a long-vacant building on Old Keene Mill Road in Springfield. The county plans to build a 270-space commuter parking lot in the space that once housed a Circuit City store.