I hope everyone had a good holiday and start of summer last week, and recovering from a great CAPS win last night! We’re also starting the summer off with a bang, with several big votes coming up next Monday night: the downselect recommendation for 6 proposals received for the 10 acre West […]
Happy long weekend! As we head into summer when business normally slows down, we expect a busy season ahead. As planned, we heard two economic development projects in a joint work session this week with the Planning Commission. Signed leases with a 8 screen, dine-in movie theater, Studio Movie Grill and with […]
It’s been (and will be) a big news week. We received some good news and expect to have a meaty work session on Monday, focused on economic development and land use. For those of you following the Mason Row (now Founders Row) project at Broad/N. West, which was one of my […]
We are back to business this week. Two call outs and then the updates: 1) We had a meaty work session this week, all about the West Falls Church economic development project. ICYMI, we received 6 proposals for the 10 acre development opportunity. Read on to find out the members of […]
This week’s update will be short and sweet. Two things: (1) If you haven’t heard by now, the FY19 budget process is done. Whew. The headline says it was a 7-0 vote, but I encourage you to read beyond the headlines. Starting July 1, the real estate tax rate will increase […]
There are a lot of good things to acknowledge about this year’s budget, and I don’t think we take enough stock to recognize how fortunate we are as a community, compared to even our peers in the region, much of Virginia, and the country. I’ve got 5 things I think have been good and 5 […]
Thank you for all of the great feedback on last week’s FAQs post. When these updates get passed around by you and I am reaching more people about “boring city news”, I’ve appreciated hearing that this information is useful and that my efforts are worth it! Please keep sharing. We’re in […]
City Council made several important decisions this week – we voted unanimously 6-0 for the Broad and Washington project and authorized the issuance of $24M worth of bonds for myriad of projects, including the final amount for the Mt. Daniel expansion, architecture and engineering for the library expansion, and tranche 1 […]
I’m taking a brief departure from “all budget, all the time” in this week’s update. While we spent 4 hours in work session this week – mostly on the general government budget – after writing this week’s FCNP commentary and an interview about affordable housing, I’ll leave you with those […]
Happy spring! While half of the Little City is away on spring break, we had some big news in town this week. If you haven’t seen it already, US News and World Report ranked Falls Church as the #1 Healthiest Community, out of 3000 communities in the US. Caveating that health and […]