Broad & Washington Project

Project Status: Under Construction 

Tentative opening of the residential use for this project is planned for Spring 2024 and tentative opening of the retail uses is planned for Fall 2024. The developer holds regular meetings to update the community on the project and hear concerns. To find the date and time of the next community meeting, please email Laura Arseneau.

Special Exception Approval

The initial development application and proposal was first submitted in 2015, and approved by City Council on April 9, 2018. Review the initial development application and subsequent submissions on the Broad and Washington Project Archive page.

The City Council approved resolutions TR20-33 and TR20-34 for the proposed Broad and Washington development project for the following applications: 

  1. Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map Amendment: to amend the city owned parking lot on Park Place from Business to Mixed-Use designation;
  2. Special Exception: to allow residential development within a mixed-use development; and
  3. Special Exception: to allow a height bonus above the 75' maximum height allowed in B-2

About the Proposed Development

Broad and Washington is a new mixed-use development project proposed by Insight Property Group LLC represented by McGuire Woods LLP. The site is located at the northeast corner of E Broad Street and N Washington Street intersection in the City of Falls Church. As proposed the project would include the following elements:

  • A seven-story mixed-use building with ground floor retail and theater use;
  • Up to five (5) levels of residential multi-family rental apartments (339 units) above ground floor retail
  • Whole Foods Market at the corner of Broad and Washington Streets; and, 
  • Four levels of underground and above grade parking garage.

Project Rendering as of December 2020 Opens in new window

(View and download a PDF of the rendering.)

Site

The site is bound by Park Place on the north, E Broad Street on the south, Lawton Street on the east, and N Washington Street on the west. The development proposal includes the following four parcels: 100 N Washington Street, 127 E Broad Street, 131 E Broad Street, and a public parking lot on Park Place owned by City of Falls Church.

The site is currently occupied by an office building at the intersection of E Broad and N Washington Streets, an Applebee's restaurant, a medical office building at the intersection of E Broad and Lawton Streets, and a public parking lot on Park Place.

Project Layout as of December 2020 Opens in new window

(View and download a PDF of the layout plan.)

Process

Development proposals of this scale must go through several stages of staff review and receive several reviews and approvals by boards, commissions and city organizations before they are considered for approval by the City Council. A general schedule with upcoming meeting dates are provided below. These meeting dates are subject to change.

Public Input, Questions, or Comments

City Staff

Developer

Special Exception (SE) Application Materials

Approved Documents (Approved on January 25, 2021)

Fourth Submission (Received on December 17, 2020)

Third Submission (Received on August 10, 2020)

Second Submission (Received on April 8, 2020)

First Submission (Received November 20, 2019)