Renderings of a proposed pop-up park in Tysons. Image from Fairfax County s Department of Planning and Development staff report on the amendment proposal.
Tysons could soon have a new reading-themed pop-up park space with a lending library, book-themed art, and food trucks.
Developer Dittmar is proposing the park as an interim use for land at the intersection of Westpark Drive and Leesburg Pike, near the Greensboro Metro station. If the necessary zoning modifications are approved, the park is expected to be built in the first half of this year, said Elizabeth Baker, a land use planner for Walsh Colucci who is representing Dittmar on the project.
Before constructing two high-rise residential buildings and a hotel in central Tysons several years from now, a developer hopes to put that land to productive interim use.
Tysons Westpark LC is seeking the Fairfax County governmentâs approval to build a 16,500-square foot âpop-upâ park and new-vehicle parking at 8401 Westpark Drive, not far east from Route 7.
The Fairfax County Planning Commission on Dec. 9 unanimously recommended that county supervisors approve the proposals. The matter is scheduled to come before the Board of Supervisors Jan. 26.
Supervisors in April 2013 rezoned the 5.32-acre site for the Westpark Plaza development, and the developer subsequently razed the former Best Western Westpark Hotel there. The property later served as a staging area for construction of a nearby development, The Boro, and now is being used for off-street commercial-vehicle parking.