County board approves Clarendon Square redevelopment for 309 apartments, new plaza and bike lane

The Arlington County Board on May 10 unanimously approved a package of land‑use changes and a site plan to replace the largely vacant office building at 3033 Wilson Boulevard with an eight‑story, 309‑unit mixed‑use building that will include ground‑floor retail, a new public plaza and a protected bicycle lane along Wilson Boulevard.

County planning staff said the plan repurposes existing concrete parking and building core, shortens construction time and helps meet county goals to convert obsolete office space to housing near transit. “This plan advances the goals of the Clarendon sector plan,” Peter Schultz, a planner in the county’s Community Planning, Housing and Development division, told the board during the presentation.

The board approved four related actions: a general land‑use plan amendment to reclassify the site as medium‑density mixed use and fold it into the Clarendon Revitalization District; changes to the Clarendon zoning map to allow an 85‑foot maximum height at the site (with a lower 65‑foot limit on the northeast corner that abuts…