Gigantic mixed-use projects around Metro — especially along the expanding Silver Line —dominate Northern Virginia’s development scene.
Amazon HQ2, while certainly large and always a headline grabber, isn’t the biggest, perhaps by a long shot. Some truly colossal projects, especially along Metro in Fairfax and Loudoun counties, have been lumbering away, or at least stirring, for years. These are the ones you should really keep an eye on.
As the ‘burbs have continued to construct what they often describe as mixed-use “places,” you don’t have to go “into the city” anymore to be in an urban environment. The idea is that people want to live, visit and work in locations with lots of stuff to do and places to shop and eat within an easy walking radius. More and more urban oases dot what otherwise look on a map like suburbia. Some have gone as far as to suggest that the growth of such places could reverse the metro-area’s historical suburbs-to-D.C. commuting pattern.
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