Ballston Mall Redevelopment Hearing Tuesday

PHOTO of proposed Ballston Quarter courtesy of Forest City Washington

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The Arlington County Board Tuesday night will consider kicking in $55.5 million to help move along the proposed redevelopment of Ballston Mall into a revamped Ballston Quarter.

Owner Forest City Washington has plans that would:

• modify the three-story mall and three levels of existing office building above Macy’s department store,
• demolish Macy’s Home Furniture store at the corner of Wilson Blvd. and N. Randolph Street
• build a 22-story residential building with 406 dwelling units and about 66,475 sq. ft. of ground floor and second-story retail.

The applicant is requesting bonus density and height for the proposed residential building.

The financing by the county that will be discussed at the meeting is called CDA (Community Development Authority)/TIF (Tax Increment Financing) financing. Read more about this type of financing here.

Read the full Arlington County staff report on the proposed project here.

Those who cannot attend the meetings may watch them live on the web at www.arlingtonva.tv and from a link on the Arlington County home page www.arlingtonva.us the day of the meeting. Viewers can also watch live meetings on Arlington TV on Comcast channels 25 and 74 and Verizon FiOS channels 39 and 40, or view repeats on Comcast 74 and Verizon 39.

Viewers can obtain information about televised meetings and repeats at http://arlingtonva.tv/county-board-schedule/, and watch archived meetings and search for individual items on line by clicking on theWatch Board Meetings online link on the County Board web page (www.arlingtonva.us/cbo) or by going directly to the County Board Meetings and Agendas web page.