After the Falls Church Festival this past weekend, the Little City has a not-so-little lineup of events this fall.
From outdoor movie nights to the annual Halloween Carnival, here’s an itinerary of upcoming events.
Falls Church
A $650 million Falls Church development project is approaching some key milestones as 400 units of housing are slated to welcome their first tenants in coming months.
Phase One of the West Falls Development Project, which seeks to redevelop 10 acres of land at the former site of George Mason High School, is nearing completion, Mary Beth Avedesian, Senior Vice President of Development at Hoffman & Associates, shared at a public event Monday night.
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An 88-year-old music venue in Falls Church is continuing to breathe new life into classic hits with a cornucopia of cover bands.
With tributes to artists like Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and Led Zeppelin all in the lineup of upcoming shows, the State Theatre at 220 N. Washington Street seeks to retain nostalgic charm while appealing to concertgoers of all stripes.
A new steakhouse with table-side Korean grilling is expected to soft open early next month in Falls Church.
Seoul Prime promises to combine “the robust flavors of traditional Korean grilling” with “the elegance of an American steakhouse” on the ground floor of Founders Row, an apartment building at 106 Founders Avenue that is also home to several other restaurants.
After a few months of construction, three intersections of the Washington & Old Dominion Trail in Falls Church have new all-way stops.
These stops are now in place at the intersections of Little Falls Street, N. Oak Street and N. Spring Street. They were added in a collaboration with NOVA Parks to increase safety, according to an email announcement from the city.
After over 50 years of helping the D.C. area document and preserve memories, Dominion Camera in Falls Church will close next week.
The little camera shop and photography lab in Falls Church has been in business since 1969. After a couple attempts to resell, the shop’s last day of business is Saturday, Sept. 7.
The annual Falls Church Festival is back next month, bringing the Little City a day of live entertainment, activities and food tasting with 90 vendors.
Now in its 48th year, the festival is scheduled to run from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14, outside City Hall at 300 Park Avenue. Admission is free and food, drink and ride tickets can be purchased on site.
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Former President Donald Trump attended a wreath laying at Arlington National Cemetery and made a campaign stop in Falls Church earlier today (Monday).
Trump visited the cemetery to mark the three-year anniversary of a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members. He then made an appearance at Truong Tien Restaurant at the Eden Center, alongside Vietnamese-American U.S. Senate candidate Hung Cao (R).
Falls Church is attempting to move forward with a project to improve pedestrian and bicyclist access along W. Broad Street.
The multimodal improvement project calls for widening sidewalks, redesigning intersections and adding a new pedestrian crosswalk, with changes planned at the intersections of W. Broad Street and Virginia Avenue, Lee Street, Oak Street, Spring Street and West Street.
Though Summer Restaurant Week has now come to a close, some restaurants in Arlington and Falls Church are continuing the deals for a little longer.
Sabores Tapas on Columbia Pike, SER in Ballston and The Falls in Falls Church are among several businesses in the area to extend discounts on multi-course brunch, lunch and dinner menus past the official end of Restaurant Week last weekend.
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Forty years since its founding, the Eden Center remains a community pillar of Falls Church and thriving destination for visitors from throughout the D.C. area and beyond.
Known for its immigrant-run restaurants and grocery stores, the expansive commercial center — situated just over the Arlington border on the 6700 block of Wilson Blvd — is a landmark of Northern Virginia’s Vietnamese community.
A Falls Church City Council member has resigned amid investigations into her employment disclosures.
The Washington Post and NBC 4 reported yesterday that Caroline Lian resigned her post as deputy director for the D.C. Department of Buildings after it was revealed that she had a second full-time job that she had not disclosed.