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IF YOU'VE DRIVEN ON ROUTE 7 through the city of Falls Church, you may have been maddened by its slow speed limit and ever-vigilant police force, which makes the trip between Seven Corners and Tysons Corner stretch on for what seems like eternity. Now, officials and planners in Falls Church are concentrating on getting those low-speed passers by to stop. After two public hearings slated for this week, the city council will vote on a grand plan to remake its downtown.
As The Post's Kristen Mack reports:
If approved, the $317 million project would be the biggest thing to happen to Falls Church since Metro extended the Orange Line there in 1986. In addition to attracting shoppers and diners from across the region, city officials say, they hope the revival of the downtown area will bring young professionals, first-time homeowners and empty nesters to buy condominiums, rent townhouses and establish roots in Falls Church.But the plan is not yet firmed up. No hotel has officially committed to the site and Harris Teeter has signed a letter of intent, but not a contract, to open a store at the proposed four-block site at Broad and S. Washington streets.
» "Falls Church Turns to the Future" [WaPo]
Photo by Tracy A. Woodward/The Washington Post
Posted By Michael Grass at 10:31 AM on February 25, 2008
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It's too bad that Falls Church didn't get the Orange Line to stop closer to the downtown (I've read stories that the town-fathers didn't want the development pressure of a more centrally located Metro stop, although those stories could be as fake as the Georgetown Metro rumors).
Falls Church has become the refuge for a lot of what used to make Clarendon a nice place. Hopefully they can avoid the mistakes of their condo-encumbered neighbors.
By Reid , Posted February 25, 2008 1:43 PM