Food Star redevelopment advances
A mixed-use redevelopment project proposed for Bailey’s Crossroads moved a little closer to reality last week. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved a Comprehensive Plan amendment for the Food Star site on Leesburg Pike.
The plan amendment would allow three multifamily residential buildings ranging from five to 14 stories with 900 to 1,300 units and 65,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. That’s a lower intensity of development than initially proposed by Food Store property owner George Hong.
The site, located on Sub-unit B-5 of the Town Center District of the Bailey’s Crossroads Community Business Center, is located between Leesburg Pike, Gorham Street, Seminary Road, and Carlin Springs Road. Hong does not own the other properties on that block.
Mason Supervisor Penny Gross suggested the project could spur additional redevelopment in the surrounding area, including the retail strip on the other side of Gorham Street – with Denny’s and Autozone – between the Food Star site and Skyline.
Food Star opened in 2020 in a building formerly occupied by Toys R Us.
Yay!
And where is the mass transit, oh yea, in Arlington and DC???
OH MY GOSH
Where Are The Trees ?????
Oh yes, another empty housing! There was the 3 Collective, 1 block away, a lot of newly built apartments in Beauregard, of course, another apartment complex! sheesshh!
That stinks, I go to Food Star to pick up the things I can’t get at Aldi since Amazon has apparently bailed on the Amazon Fresh store in Bailey’s.
Where are all of the kids going to go to school? To the extremely overcrowded existing Glasgow and Justice? If more apts are going to be built, then infrastructure is needed first. Schools, public transport, ………………
Don’t worry about it. You’ll pay for it through property taxes.
An enterprising individual could open up a few funeral homes for all the future victims of gang violence. Our local politicians have wrecked that area.
Agree; and yet given the chance the voters stick with the same candidate and/or party. That area is a traffic nightmare already; can’t wait to see what happens with more cars (until it is decided we don’t need to own our own vehicles.)
More abutting too close vertical housing? I hope it doesn’t destroy the “Skyline” View.
This is good for the community *if* the community will step up to provide transit for the new & existing residents. Baileys Crossroads could become a real city with greater density, safer walking & biking, and fewer cars & parking lots.
New or improved transit not looking likely with Metro financial woes:
https://www.wusa9.com/article/traffic/metro-general-manager-warns-that-services-cuts-could-come-as-soon-as-spring-amid-financial-woes-wmata/65-e9a7918c-278b-4538-8e7d-8ca7d7d3673c
What are the next steps now that they approved the plan amendment for the site? Is there a timeline for the project?