2050 Eastern Gateway Concept Plan - City of Falls Church

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These are issues that the City of Falls Church hopes to deal with in future redevelopment of Eden Center, while retaining as many of the Vietnamese-American tenants as possible in the process. Constraints and Opportunities The Eastern Gateway site presents several constraints and opportunities for redevelopment. Constraints: • Oakwood Cemetery. The cemetery is a constraint in that it takes up a large, centrally located portion of the site. This limits the ability to create internal pathways to facilitate movement and creates some odd-shaped parcels. In addition, it limits the ability to make connections between the site and the neighborhoods of Falls Church immediately to the west. • Proximity to Fairfax County Line. The ability to create a node of activity is limited to what Falls Church has direct influence on, but which is directly affected by development immediately adjacent in the Fairfax County portion of Seven Corners. This includes the odd parcel of the animal hospital that appears to be in Falls Church but is actually located in Fairfax County. • Unfriendly Pedestrian Environment. Vehicles driving through Seven Corners are not alerted to the presence of pedestrians, sidewalks are minimal where they exist at all, and pedestrian crossings are hazardous. Attracting street life will be difficult as long as Seven Corners is primarily seen as a vehicular intersection. • No Major Transit Stop on Site. Attracting pedestrians and thus a more lively street life will be challenging because Seven Corners does not have a major transit station to bring people who will walk. There is an extralarge bus stop at the Seven Corners shopping mall in Fairfax County, but the Falls Church portion of Seven Corners does not include even a bus shelter; pedestrian connections between this Seven Corners bus stop and the Eastern Gateway are hazardous and unfriendly. • Negative Perception of Seven Corners. In general, Seven Corners is not regarded as a pleasant place to be by local residents, who instead view it as a frustrating, confusing, and congested intersection. • Successful But Congested Eden Center. Eden Center is a thriving retail shopping center that could benefit from redevelopment and density intensification. A challenge for redevelopment will be keeping the smaller, Vietnamese-American tenants operational and successful during the construction of a redeveloped Eden Center. Opportunities: • Elevation. The Falls Church portion of Seven Corners includes some of the highest terrain in the area.
Enhancing these views by building tall structures would increase desirability for offices and residents to locate here. • Eden Center. The Eden Center is one of the most successful commercial areas in the City of Falls Church, and has an established reputation, especially among the Vietnamese community, that draws visitors from around the world. • Oakwood Cemetery. While this cemetery presents a constraint in terms of connectivity between the Falls Church neighborhood immediately to its west and the Seven Corners site, the cemetery also provides an existing green space that could serve the function of a park and create desirable views for neighboring offices and residents. market interest of the majority of this traffic. • Existing Tall Buildings. The BB&T towers and the residential units along Roosevelt Avenue provide an existing precedent for high-density development in this area, such that creating a larger cluster of increased density would be more palatable to residents and business owners in this area. • Historic Site. Falls Church should capitalize on this location for its historical significance of being the first place that a military balloon was launched to perform aerial reconnaissance at Fort Taylor Park. This historic event could fuel a thematic development of the site that could attract those with interests in military history, balloons, the Civil War, and others. • Proximity to East Falls Church Metro Station. This site is very close to an existing heavy rail transit stop, such that it could be easily connected to it via shuttle buses or more frequent bus service, at a minimum, thus drawing pedestrian traffic to the site. • Location at a Major Intersection. The fact that Route 7 and Route 50, two of Northern Virginia’s main thoroughfares, intersect at Seven Corners provides an excellent market space due to the high volume of traffic passing through. By redeveloping its portion of Seven Corners, Falls Church would be poised to capture the
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usinesses in this center are local,
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Implementation and Impacts Planned,
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