3541 Chain Bridge Road

Proposal at a glance

Tax map parcel(s): 57 2 02 002

Extracted from the city's submitted documents; each figure traces to the text it came from.

• Floor area (existing) — "approximately 16,616 square feet of office space with two courtyards"
• Dwelling units (existing) — "currently developed with two office buildings that were constructed in the early 1970's"
• Dwelling units (proposed) — "37 residential dwelling units consisting of 29 townhouses and 8 two-over-two"
• Retail (proposed) — "2,730 square feet of retail uses on the eastern edge of the Property"
• Stories (proposed) — "PROVIDED BUILDING HEIGHT = 4 STORES / 60 FT"
• Parking spaces (proposed) — "TOTAL PROVIDED = 88 SPACES"
• Site area (proposed) — "SITE AREA: 90,959 SF OR 2.0881 AC"

Official record

The potential applicant is proposing to redevelop the property with a mixed-use development with 37 residential dwelling units consisting of 29 townhouses and 8 two-over-two (multifamily) units and a 2,730 square foot freestanding retail building. A maximum building height of 4 stories is proposed with a density of 17.7 units per acre. The subject site is currently developed with 4 two-story buildings with approximately 16,616 square feet of office space with two courtyards and 124 surface parking spaces. The subject site is currently zoned CR Commercial Retail, and the potential applicant is proposing a rezoning to CU Commercial Urban. The subject site is located within the Activity Center Place Type, as designated in the Comprehensive Plan.

• Requests: The applicant proposes to rezone approximately 2.09 acres from CR Commercial Retail to CU Commercial Urban. Potential applications include a Rezoning, Special Use Permit, General Development Plan, and a Major Certificate of Appropriateness for Architecture and Landscaping.
• Address: 3541 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA 22030
• Applicant: Evan Pritchard Wire Gill, LLP
• City record

Recent activity

• 2026-07-28 City Council — Council received a pre-application briefing from Network Realty Partners regarding the proposed redevelopment during a work session. No action taken.

2026-06-22 — Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

Agenda item 7a: Pre-application briefing – Fairfax Professional Building at 3541 Chain Bridge Road (watch the moment)

• Outcome: Work session pre-application briefing scheduled per agenda. No minutes or actions report available; outcome not yet recorded.
• [7a] The Fairfax Professional Building project is located at 3541 Chain Bridge Road, on the southeast corner of Chain Bridge Road and Eaton Place, west of University Drive and north of Fairfax Boulevard.

2026-07-28 — City Council Meeting

Agenda item 10a: Work Session: Pre-application briefing on a request by Network Realty Partners for the redevelopment of 3541 Chain Bridge Road

• Outcome: Pre-application briefing was held during work session; no formal action taken.
• [10a] A pre-application briefing on a redevelopment request by Network Realty Partners was presented to the Council during the work session; no formal action was taken.

Open questions

• Who is the applicant of record — the briefing materials name Network Realty Partners, while the prior record lists Evan Pritchard Wire Gill, LLP. Are these the same entity or has the applicant changed? (2026-07-28 City Council)

Member commentary

No recorded member positions yet.

Screening-level estimates of the economic and fiscal effects of 3541 Chain Bridge Road. Figures are decision-support context with named assumptions and sensitivity ranges — not predictions. The full analysis has the interactive assumptions panel and maps; methods documents every formula.

Headline estimates

• New residents: 71.8 (range 55.1 – 87.9) — households x persons per multifamily unit (Rutgers CUPR bedroom-mix multipliers)
• Annual capture: project's own ground-floor retail: $1,822 (range $1,009 – $2,591) — Huff model over individual retail POIs: joint destination+mode choice, P(j,m) ~ A_j * w_m * exp(-b_m t_mj), CES category spend; clusters are a reporting rollup; own retail competes as a destination
• New annual spending arriving on foot: $102k (range $16k – $626k) — walk-mode share of the joint destination+mode Huff choice, summed over businesses; walking loses to driving with walk time, so the remainder of the mode-split budget arrives by car
• Real estate tax increase: $196k (range $136k – $230k) — projected minus current RE tax
• Net annual fiscal impact — naive per-capita method: −$200k (range −$419k – $16k) — incremental new recurring revenue minus service cost (upper-bound cost framing; allocates fixed citywide costs)
• Net annual fiscal impact — marginal framing: $45k (range −$211k – $233k) — incremental new recurring revenue minus service cost (only services that scale with new residents)

Method notes, caveats, and non-headline metrics live on the analysis page.