Midtown Springfield
From Fairfax Underground Wiki
Though it has not yet filed applications with Fairfax County, the Vienna-based company KSI wants to construct a "high-end," mixed-use development on 9 acres of land now occupied by the Springfield Tower building and Holiday Inn Express, which are squeezed between Interstate 95, Commerce Street and Brandon Avenue in central Springfield.(Springfield Times)
According KSI:
Midtown Springfield is located within Fairfax County's Central Springfield Revitalization District.
The Revitalization District was established to encourage flexibility in development and redevelopment of this older commercial area, where existing conditions reflect auto-oriented, strip type of construction with large surface parking lots, vacant or significantly under-utilized buildings, deficits in landscaping, pedestrian amenities and public gathering spaces, and few examples of interesting and distinctive architecture.
Midtown Springfield incorporates quality multi-family residences, retail shops, restaurants, offices, a hotel, and civic center space. Midtown Springfield has a highly pedestrian orientation that encourages walking, with retail uses placed at street level, beside landscaped and generously proportioned sidewalks with on-street parking. The result is highly activated streets with building architecture varied to embrace a diversity of individually styled building materials, while a large open air plaza, oriented to maximize sunlight, creates a central focal point and highly identifiable public gathering space. These attributes ensure that Midtown Springfield will not only exemplify the best in modern living at this gateway location, but that it will serve as a prime catalyst for implementing the longtime community goal of successful revitalization throughout Central Springfield.
