Friday, Dec. 8 — It won’t be officially announced until February due to contract terms, but a tenant for the recently-vacated Target store site on S. Washington in Falls Church will be ready by then, rumored to be a grocer, it was noted at yesterday’s meeting of the Economic Development Committee of the F.C. City Council. Apparently, the deal is part of a joint venture package that will bring a new Grill Mar(x) prime steakhouse and raw bar to the other end of the ground floor of the 455 S. Washington building.
The steakhouse will be the second new such restaurant to open in the restaurant mecca that is what F.C. is rapidly becoming. A Seoul Prime location is being prepared to open in Founders Row 1, where an array of eateries have already opened, including the world class Ellie Bird and Nue establishments that are drawing rave reviews from the New York Times and other notable nationally-prominent sites. Of the near 100 restaurants now packing the 2.2 square mile Little City, 38 have already signed up to participate in the City’s Restaurant Week in January when special deals to encourage the public to check out the many offerings will happen. Many are also participants in the City’s current holiday gift card program.
Adjacent where the Seoul Prime restaurant will go, work on the multi-screen film house is also progressing, the committee learned. Work on raising the roof above that site is set to begin this coming week.
Up the street at the 10-acre West Falls development, the medical building is now set to open February 7, the hotel by June, and condo sales will begin next fall.
Down the street at Broad and Washington, where the insight Group’s project is steaming along, the mega-Whole Food grocery is slated to open next fall and residential units will begin to be occupied this coming May. The new Zevian restaurant, as reported earlier in the N-P being built out at the site of the former Famile in the Kensington building will open in March, and the 32 fully-remodeled boutique rooms at the Meeting House hotel are now receiving occupants. Below it, the new Godfrey’s is open and a Victura Park dining option in the rear is coming soon.
The Stratford Garden site, at the currently vacated old Stratford Motel location, will be transformed commencing next month and Troika, a Russian deli, will open below The Broadway soon. The 106 Little Falls location is now up for sale at $2.3 million. the food hall planned for the Eden Center is on schedule. and the City Council’s final reading on the request for zoning modifications to the Quinn senior living project on S. Washington work is set for February.
