Arlington’s second mixed-use church breaks ground this weekend.

After five years clearing legal and financial hurdles, the “Views at Clarendon” apartment building will break ground this weekend, as DCmud reports. The building will be constructed on top of the First Baptist Church of Clarendon, in what is surely one of the nation’s most intriguing and progressive cases of Smart Growth. 70 of the building’s 116 apartments will be below-market affordable, and it is expected to attain a LEED silver rating.

Arlington’s other mixed-use church, for the record, is above a gas station in Rosslyn.