2050 Eastern Gateway Concept Plan - City of Falls Church

Existing Site Conditions
The Roosevelt Boulevard/Wilson Boulevard area consists of
approximately 33 acres, or just over 1.4 million square feet of
area. Current site uses include three high-rise apartment
complexes (approximately 14 acres), a public storage facility
(approximately. 1.5 acres), an auto body shop (approximately
three acres) a gas station (approximately 0.5 acres), a small
commercial strip (approximately 0.7 acres), and the former
Noland Plumbing warehouse—future site of a BJ’s Wholesale
Warehouse (approximately eight acres). Buildings on each of
the sites are surrounded by surface parking and open space.
The resulting development character is very low-density, with an
average floor-area ratio (FAR) of 0.62; this low FAR is not
conducive to a walkable urban environment or public
transportation and does not support underground parking. The
current floor area ratio of each parcel is listed in Table 3.1
below:
Table 3.1: Existing Floor Area Ratios for Roosevelt
Boulevard/Wilson Boulevard Sites
Site Name
Floor Area Ratio
Oakwood Apartments 0.3152
Madison Condo 0.9448
Roosevelt Towers Apts. 1.0060
Koons Ford Body Shop 0.2551
Public Storage 1.8784
Shell Gas Station 0.1018
Wilson Blvd Commercial 0.3114
BJ's Wholesale Warehouse 0.2175
Current subsite FAR 0.6228
The Wilson Boulevard corridor brings traffic into the Eastern
Gateway from Arlington’s Rosslyn-Ballston corridor. Roosevelt
Boulevard serves as a major north-south artery through the site,
leading traffic to and from the East Falls Church Metro station
and Route I-66, located approximately 1.5 miles to the north of
the site. Because of these major arterial connections, this
approximately one mile section of Roosevelt Boulevard has the
potential to serve as a major thoroughfare into the Eastern
Gateway site, in addition to successfully hosting concentrated,
main street-type commercial and residential development.