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City Center is Falls Church City's landmark urban village project. It is a 22-acre area identified in the Comprehensive Plan and is centered on Maple avenue, north and south of West Broad Street.

City Council unanimously approved Atlantic Realty Companies' proposal for City Center South on Feb. 28, 2008; there are no current development proposals for City Center North.

The City Center South proposal is approximately one million square feet of mixed-use development within a 8.77-acre area bounded to the north by West Broad Street (220 block), to the south by Gibson Street, to the west by Big Chimneys Park, and to the east by South Washington Street.

City Center South Development Area Map
City Center South Development Area Map (With Building Descriptions)

City Center South will be built in two phases over five years. The project contains more than 100,000 square feet of retail space that includes a grocery store (Harris Teeter has signed a letter of intent to occupy the space), 90,000 square feet of office, 412 apartments, 16 townhouses, 134 active adult condominiums, a 180-room hotel, and a new bowling facility. Click here to see the fiscal impact of the revised and expanded City Center proposal.

How City Center ultimately looks and feels will depend greatly on community input in the months and years ahead. Project design, density, height, composition of land uses, special features, parking, and traffic flow are just a few of the issues that the citizens of Falls Church City will be encouraged to weigh in on.