The Virginia Hospital Center has agreed to assist the small businesses it’s displacing from a small retail strip on Arlington Boulevard in Falls Church, the Viet Place Collective reports.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in October approved VHC’s plans to replace Graham Center with a health facility to include an emergency room, an urgent care center, and medical offices.
When the project was approved, neither Fairfax County nor VHC consulted with nor agreed to provide financial assistance to the small businesses being displaced, says Quynh Nguyen, core organizer with the Viet Place Collective, a grassroots organization that advocates for Vietnamese small businesses with the goal of preserving the community’s legacy in Northern Virginia…