Officials Break Ground On Broad & Washington, Foresee 2024 Completion

Falls Church VA

12 May, 2022

2:02 PM

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FALLS CHURCH, VA — City officials, local artists and business leaders joined Insight Property Group to officially launch construction of Broad & Washington, a large mixed-use project in downtown Falls Church. Purchased in January 2015, the project will include 334 apartments, a 45,000-square-foot Whole Foods Market and about 6,500 square feet of street retail. The project is the first in the City of Falls Church to commit to affordable housing for 10 percent of the planned apartments. The project, at the northeast corner of E. Broad and N. Washington streets in the center of Falls Church, is scheduled to open in spring 2024. At the April 29 ceremony, Falls Church Mayor David Tarter praised the development as "an important part of the evolution of the city that follows a well laid out vision for a more vibrant, walkable and bikeable community, with commerce, the arts and homes all combining to be greater than the sum of their parts." The complex also will house Creative Cauldron, a professional theater and educational arts organization that will be moving to a new black box theater and permanent artistic home at Broad & Washington. Insight Property Group, developer of Broad & Washington, acquires and develops mixed-use and residential communities in the D.C. area. Insight purchased 2.7 acres at the intersection of E. Broad and N. Washington streets in January 2015 for $13.6 million. The seven-story project will have up to five levels of rental apartments and four levels of underground and above grade parking garage. The site is bound by Park Place on the north, E. Broad Street on the south, Lawton Street on the east, and N. Washington Street on the west. The site is currently occupied by an office building at the intersection of E. Broad and N. Washington streets, an Applebee's restaurant, a medical office building at the intersection of E. Broad and Lawton Streets, and a public parking lot on Park Place. (City of Falls Church)