2050 Eastern Gateway Concept Plan - City of Falls Church

Koons
The Koons sites will contain a variety of land configurations and
land uses. It will be developed to accommodate the City’s
requests for more commercial and office development, while
incorporating functional public space and buildings that would
bring both day and evening activity to the area. The area
ranges in density and heights, accommodating the topography
of the site and the adjacent residential neighborhood at the
northern end. The site is planned for mixed use with an
emphasis on office/commercial development. Fort Taylor Park
would be expanded by 10,774 square feet and the site would
be anchored at the opposite end by a hotel designed to be
architecturally distinct to help delineate an entrance to Falls
Church.
The main Koons site directly across Route 7 from the Syms site
will consist of four buildings, two sets of parallel structures
creating an inward facing village feeling. The two parallel
buildings on the northern end of the parcel will be 22,071
square feet and 20,919 square feet, respectively. These
buildings will range from three stories to five stories, with the
shortest building heights located adjacent to the expanded Fort
Taylor Park. The gross floor area of these buildings will be
83,900 and 105,000 square feet, respectively. The buildings
will be mixed-use, with ground-level retail and contain the
option of developing studio, office, or loft space, based on
developer interests. The buildings will be separated by a
functional pedestrian open space area that leads up to a 7,504
square foot circular amphitheater/outdoor space for public use.
The four buildings on the parcel respond to this circular feature,
with curved building fronts surrounding the area. The circular
area opens to both Route 7 and the cemetery, allowing for
pedestrian flow from the Syms and Giant Mart sites to Eden
Center and Roosevelt Boulevard. The two buildings on the
southwestern side of the circle have similar floor plates at 7,310
square feet (north) and 10,627 (south) but have much higher
densities at eight stories in height. Overall, the north building
will contain 58,480 square feet of gross floor area space while
the south building will house 85,016 square feet. Both buildings
will include ground level retail with all office use above,
contributing a total of 51,170 (north) and 74,389 (south)
square feet of additional commercial space to the area.
Figure 3.21:
Massing Model for
Proposed Koons
Site