quarter the owner mapping to ditch the ballston common mall name. the new front entrance off wilson boulevard full of cafes and plenty of seating dramatically different from this. what that same part of the mall looks like today. brick-line-type street feel and the sky above. >> reporter: we walked the mall with will vogel heading up the $300 million project. what you will have is a very unique high-quality place that people are just going to love. >> reporter: there's not much love for one part of the project the change not as well received, tearing down this the pedestrian skywalk. it's a popular vehement way of getting across the busy street to and from the melt roletro. people use it. something for the county and the community need to work out. >> reporter: tina leone is ceo of balance stan bid, represent 115 businesses here. the skywalk concerns aside tina's only heard strong support for the project. >> this new balance stan quarter will traps form wilson boulevard. >> reporter: this becomes a large, open, outdoor urban plaza. back inside, voge

showers down toward prince george's county fairly light, steady, falls church through tyson's, the ballstona, clark county seeing some of these showers moving through and the wider view shows more showers back our west the area we will watch that will come through here the evening tonight. that will move through the region. here is tropical depression bill, a depression to the north of dallas, a lot of moisture here this storm is going to move right up and over this ridge of high pressure, right on into our area for saturday and sunday. what does that mean for us? showers, a couple thunderstorms but not see anything like what they have seen down there, inches and inches of rain. tonight, 7:30, i do think we will see showers, not a whole lot going on, same deal around 10:00 a better chance of heavier overnight showers as we move on through the night tonight. that's something to remember. tomorrow, we get back to the hot and humid weather. 89 degrees for a high in d.c., 90 in fredericksburg, 84 toward martinsburg and 89 toward la plata. we stay rather hot and humid, high with a chance of stor