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Ryan Homes is building single-family homes on quarter-acre sites at Port Potomac Estates in Woodbridge. The homes have 1,852 to 5,105 finished square feet, with base prices from $384,990 to $417,990.
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** FILE ** In this July 27, 2008, file photo, the company sign hangs over a row of 2009 models at a Toyota dealership in the southeast Denver suburb of Centennial, Colo. Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 2.17 million vehicles in the United States to address accelerator pedals that could become entrapped in floor mats or jammed in carpeting. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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** FILE ** In this Jan. 10, 2011, Dan Akerson, CEO of General Motors, smiles during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. General Motors said Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, it earned $510 million in the fourth quarter and $4.7 billion last year as it continued its comeback from bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, file)
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President Obama prepares to salute as he steps off the Marine One helicopter at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. On Capitol Hill, lawmakers are waiting for him to engage in the spending-cuts debate. (Associated Press)
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NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, right, talks with members of the media as he arrives for labor talks with the NFL on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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A sign advertises gas and diesel prices, plus gives an explanation to customers, at a service station in Easthampton, Mass., on Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 photo, Nippon Telegraph and Telegram Corp. Communications Science Laboratories staff imitates to brush his teeth during a demonstration of a wearable sensor attached to a wristwatch-like device during the NTT Research and Development Forum in Tokyo. Japan's top telecom company NTT says using this technology, what an elderly person is doing during each hour of the day can be shown on a chart. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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FILE - In this file photo taken Dec. 8, 2010, Chicago White Sox general manager Ken Williams speaks with the media during the Major League Baseball's winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Williams said Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, he's not backing down from his comments that $30 million-per-season contracts would be bad for baseball and he'd support a work stoppage to bring fiscal sanity. (AP Photo/Roberto Gonzalez, File)
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New York Knicks' Amare Stoudemire, left, high fives with assistant coach Phil Weber at the New York Knicks training facility on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, in Greenburgh, New York. The Knicks agreed to a trade with the Denver Nuggets for Carmelo Anthony on Monday night, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press. The teams were awaiting the completion of a conference call with the NBA on Tuesday before the deal, which also includes the Minnesota Timberwolves, could become official. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
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The lobby of the headquarters of pharmaceutical company Wyeth in Madison, N.J. The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, that a federal law bars lawsuits against drug makers over serious side effects from childhood vaccines. The vaccine was made by Wyeth, now owned by Pfizer, Inc. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, file)
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Traders work the crude oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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FILE - In this photo released by the Liceo theatre, a rehearsal of the production Anna Bolena is staged at the Liceo Opera House in Barcelona on Jan. 17, 2011. Economic cutbacks are forcing Barcelona's Liceu opera house to stall its season-start in 2011-2012 by one month and may oblige the famed theater to introduce temporary staff layoffs, The Liceu said Tuesday Feb. 22, 2011, noting that subsidies are severely reduced. (AP Photo/A Bofill, Liceo Theatre, File)EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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In this product image released by Ubisoft Entertainment, the cover art for "Call of Juarez: The Cartel" for Xbox 360 is shown. The shoot-em-up video game set in the border town of Ciudad Juarez has angered local officials who are busy fighting all-too-real violence. (AP Photo/Ubisoft) NO SALES
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Protesters march and wave the Moroccan flag during a demonstration on Sunday in Rabat, Morocco. At least 2,000 people marched in Morocco's capital to demand a new constitution that would bring greater democracy in the North African kingdom. Demonstrators shouted slogans calling for economic opportunity, educational reform, better health services and help in coping with rising living costs during the march on central Hassan II Avenue in Rabat. (Associated Press)
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European Central bank President Jean Claude Trichet, right, looks at International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, center, during the family picture of the G-20 Finance summit at Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. Finance chiefs from the world's 20 industrialized and fastest developing nations wrestle over how to steady the world economy at a two-days meeting in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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President Barack Obama speaks at the Intel Corp. on Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, in Hillsboro, Ore. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Congressmen walk down the steps of the House of Representatives as they work throughout the night on a spending bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Models wait in line during a rehearsal before the L.A.M.B. fall 2011 collection show during Fashion Week Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner, here surrounded by D.C. voting rights demonstrators, said Thursday, "When we say we're going to cut spending, read my lips: We're going to cut spending." (PRNEWSFOTO/DC Vote)
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Wisconsin state Rep. Jennifer Shilling (left), a Democrat, questions Bob Lang (seated at desk), director of the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., during a joint Finance Committee meeting. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)
