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 look at the project the Akridge Company wants to build on property it purchased on N. Washington Street. Then the Planning Commission marched upstairs in the same building to hear the Young Group’s site plan application for an all-commercial building in the 800 block of W. Broad, which it approved unanimously. Finally, Tuesday night at the Community Center, the City’s Economic Development Authority invited the principals of Atlantic Realty to lay out their latest look for the first phases of the City Center redevelopment project. These all come on top of the numerous large-scale mixed use projects that have already been built or approved for construction in the City’s narrow commercially-zoned corridors in the last six years.
