Fairfax Square

Proposal at a glance

Tax map parcel(s): 58 3 02 013 C, 58 3 02 013 A, 48 3 14 002 B

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

• Floor area (existing) — "12 existing buildings with 126,535 square feet of a variety of commercial uses"
• Dwelling units (existing) — "features 12 existing buildings with 126,535 square feet of a variety of commercial uses"
• Dwelling units (proposed) — "comprising a total of 138 residential units across the Property"
• Affordable units (proposed) — "Applicant shall construct a minimum of eleven (11) units within the first multifamily building"
• Retail (proposed) — "up to 59,000 square feet of new commercial uses"
• Office (proposed) — "retention of 70,906 square feet of office and commercial space in two buildings"
• Stories (proposed) — "retain the existing five-story office building at 9900 Main Street"
• Site area (proposed) — "located on 10.47 acres at the end of Burke Station Road"

Official record

The Applicant proposes a phased mixed-use development that would retain the existing five-story office building at 9900 Main Street and the existing bank at 9910 Main Street, while adding four new commercial buildings along Main Street and two residential buildings with 48 townhomes to the rear of the property for a total of 138 units. The Applicant is also proposing 11 affordable units.

• Requests: The Applicant requests a Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Zoning Map Amendment (Rezoning), Master Development Plan with modifications, and a Major Certificate of Appropriateness for architecture and landscaping.
• Address: 9840-9946 Main Street, Fairfax, VA 22030
• Applicant: Van Metre Companies 9900 Main Street, Suite 500 Fairfax, VA 22031
• City record

2025-07-14 — Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

Agenda item 8a: Work Session: Pre-application briefing for a proposed mixed-use development at Fairfax Square Professional Center, 9840–9946 Main Street (watch the moment)

• Outcome: Staff presented a pre-application briefing on the proposed mixed-use development; no formal action taken during the work session.
• [8a] A pre-application briefing was presented to the Planning Commission for a proposed mixed-use development at the Fairfax Square Professional Center located at 9840–9946 Main Street; no formal action was taken.
• Status after: proposed

2025-09-09 — City Council Meeting

Agenda item 11a: Work Session: Pre-Application Briefing on Fairfax Square Professional Center (9840-9946 Main Street)

• Outcome: Briefing presented to Council during work session. No formal action taken.
• [11a] Pre-application briefing on the Fairfax Square Professional Center at 9840–9946 Main Street was presented to Council during the work session; no formal action taken.
• Status after: proposed

Open questions

No unresolved questions recorded.

Member commentary

No recorded member positions yet.

Screening-level estimates of the economic and fiscal effects of Fairfax Square. 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: 236 (range 186 – 294) — households x persons per multifamily unit (Rutgers CUPR bedroom-mix multipliers)
• Annual capture: project's own ground-floor retail: $140k (range $76k – $212k) — 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: $142k (range $28k – $1.2M) — 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: $706k (range $580k – $1.0M) — projected minus current RE tax
• Net annual fiscal impact — naive per-capita method: −$181k (range −$1.1M – $1.3M) — incremental new recurring revenue minus service cost (upper-bound cost framing; allocates fixed citywide costs)
• Net annual fiscal impact — marginal framing: $625k (range −$365k – $2.0M) — 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.