Residents may decide fate of WWII-era community
Hillwood Square, a 19.2-acre Falls Church housing cooperative, is attractive to developers because of its size and location inside the Capital Beltway. A Colorado-based company has offered $38 million for the property, but among residents — some of whom are negotiating prices for their units in the close-knit community while others want to preserve it — there is little consensus on what to do next.
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Patricia Hickerson, 68, stands outside the back door of her home in Hillwood Square, where she has lived for more than 61 years. "I've never had a mortgage, I have never had an apartment, so I don't know what I am going to do," Hickerson said of the potential sale of the community to apartment developers, Archstone-Smith.
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