Ballston Site's Fate in Hands of Arlington Officials

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SURROUNDED BY CHAIN-LINK FENCING, the iconic Bob Peck's Chevrolet showroom, pictured here, and its adjacent car lot sit empty, staring out onto the busy intersection of Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard in Ballston. To the north and east are new office buildings, a hotel and condo towers. To the west is a lower-density residential neighborhood.

The future of the site, which closed last year, is in the hands of Arlington County board and planning commission, which will next month consider a proposal for a big mixed-use development that would make use of both the Peck property and that of the neighboring Staples building. According to a report over the weekend in the Sun Gazette:

The developer's plan is to construct two office towers, one 10 stories and one seven stories, along with 36 townhouses, 90 apartments and 970 parking spaces on the 4.8-acre site, which in addition to the Peck and Staples buildings also currently includes the 21-unit Jordan Manor apartment building and a number of residential properties.

The western end of Ballston's core — adjacent to Glebe Road — has seen an influx of new construction in recent years. Long-range planning includes the construction of a new western entrance to the neighborhood's Orange Line Metrorail station to serve an increasing business and residential population.

» "Planning Commission, County Board to Get Plan for Peck Site" [Sun Gazette]

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File photo by Michael Grass/Express