Buoyed by last week’s news that both Target and Aldi will be opening retail outlets in downtown Falls Church over the next two years, the Economic Development Committee of the George Mason Campus Working Group was open to the advice of its consultants to place almost no limits on the kind of commercial and retail development that it should invite to bid on the 10 acres of that 34-acre site that are set apart for that purpose.

Falls Church’s mixed-use projects, taken together, generate a net $3.8 million a year to the City, equal to almost nine cents on the real estate tax rate, compared to $571,000 a year that their combined 18.5 acres were generating for the City before.

New information about a fire that ignited in the garage of 912 Lincoln Ave. at around 6 a.m. on Monday, July 3 has become available, per the City of Falls

By Orrin Konheim Tyson’s Corner has long held a reputation as Northern Virginia’s most vibrant commercial and job hub while lagging behind in residential growth. A 2010  initiative for mixed-use

Falls Church has the highest percentage rate of mortgage loans approved in Virginia, concludes New York financial technology firm, SmartAsset. Almost three out of every four (74 percent) submitted loan

A quiet conflict is bubbling underneath the surface of Falls Church’s small-town civility. Long-term, and occasionally, lifetime residents are entering old age and finding themselves pinched by the City’s escalating