2 Warehouses To Replace 10 Fuel Tanks At Fairfax City Depot

FAIRFAX CITY, VA — On a unanimous vote, the five members of the Fairfax City Board of Architectural Review approved a plan Wednesday night that will see two warehouse buildings replace 10 fuel tanks at the Pickett Road tank farm within the next two years.

In May, BV1 Logistics Acquisitions LLC submitted a proposal on behalf of Brookfield to the city to demolish 10 fuel tanks located at 3790 Pickett Road and replace them with two warehouse buildings.

"There's really not been sites like this in the City of Fairfax," said Bob Grant of law firm Walsh Carlucci, who spoke for BV1 Logistics Acquisitions during Wednesday's public hearing. "It's zoned in the IH Industrial Heavy District. This is one of the few pockets of industrial uses in the city."

Since the warehouses are an approved use in an IH District, Brookfield plans to construct the two buildings by-right and doesn't need approval from the City Council to move forward. However, the applicant still needs to obtain zoning approvals and permits prior to construction.

"Brookfield is hoping to attract, as it usually does, Fortune 500 companies, like Target, like Walmart, and Pepsi that occupy the other buildings throughout their portfolio, to this area," Grant said.

Originally built in the 1960s, the entire Tank Farm property is approximately 18.93 acres in size and located at the intersection of Colonial Avenue and Pickett Road.

Brookfield plans to build the two structures on the northeast corner of the property. The warehouses are planned to be 311,580 square feet in size and oriented around a central internal truck court, according to the staff report.

To the north, a wooded buffer separates the site from the adjacent EYA Sutton Heights townhome development. The properties to the east, south and west of BVI Logistics' project are also zoned industrial.

Now that the BAR approved the design of the warehouses, the applicant's next step is to submit a site plan for review, which Grant said would happen in the next few weeks. He estimated the all the zoning approvals and permits could be obtained within a year and demolition of the 10 tanks would begin soon after that.

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