The City of Falls Church will face its toughest financial squeeze in memory with the onset of the new fiscal year next summer, City Manager Wyatt Shields told a joint work session of the City Council and School Board last week. The sharp downturn in housing values is the culprit, […]
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Key F.C. Council Vote Moves City Center Closer to Reality
Unanimous Result Achieved in Late Night Deliberation The push for the development of a new City Center in downtown Falls Church took a giant leap forward Monday night, when a diminished City Council, only four members present, voted unanimously to give final approval to a revamp of the City’s […]
Editorial: No End In Sight
City of Falls Church leaders, including of its local newspaper, saw enough architectural renderings of potential new commercial and mixed use buildings the first two days of this week to make their heads spin. Monday night at City Hall, the City Council and Planning Commission came together to get another […]
Delegate Scott’s Richmond Report
Reporting on state government Each year about this time, state agencies begin reporting data for the previous fiscal year. One such document prepared by the Virginia Department of Transportation reports on the state and Federal funds expected to be dedicated to the maintenance of the highway system for next six […]
F.C. Council Jittery as Housing Slump Portends Fiscal Squeeze
Six major mixed-use development projects worth a half-billion dollars have been OK’d, completed or are under construction in the City of Falls Church since 2001, and in the fiscal year ending June 30, they contributed tax revenues the equivalent of 10 cents on the real estate tax rate.
New Detour Plans Being Drawn for F.C.
Falls Church’s City Hall “doesn’t have a tin ear,” an official told the News-Press yesterday, revealing that planning is underway to use an orderly detour system to ease traffic congestion on West Broad Street when two of its lanes will be closed for construction for up to two months, beginning […]
F.C. Mixed Use Project Asks To Switch Condos to Rentals
Pearson Square Seeks City OK For 230 Units With construction well underway of the largest mixed-use project yet approved for the City of Falls Church, the developer approached the City Council Monday asking for permission to convert all of its 230 residential units from condos to rentals.
Editorial: Falls Church Chic
Tuesday’s “Developer Showcase” presentation at the luncheon of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce was veritably breathtaking. A full house watched five different developers put forth every new development project that’s now underway in the commercial zones of tiny Falls Church, and taken cumulatively, it was stunning.
Falls Church Resident Charles Jensen Dies at Age 90
Charles Andrew Jensen, 90, of Falls Church, Va. died May 1, 2007, at home.
News Briefs
April 26 – May 2, 2007
