More than one member of the Falls Church City Council had a veritable tantrum Monday night when developers of two of the major mixed use development projects nearing completion on West Broad reported that banks are the only business they could find willing to fill key components of their ground-floor commercial space. Council member David Snyder was particularly angry, saying that the City had been two-timed by the developers, first because they used up so much space for residential units in the City’s commercially-zoned areas, and now because they’re not living up to the Council’s expectations for significantly desirable retail on their ground floors.
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