Gigantic mixed-use projects around Metro — not least along the expanding Silver Line — continue to dominate Northern Virginia’s development scene.
These are projects representing billions of dollars of private investment — often in connection with enormous amounts of public infrastructure investment, as well — that are years at least, if not decades, in the making. They’ll shape the character of the neighborhoods and commercial corridors they occupy for generations.
Click through the gallery above for a rundown of what’s underway, or will soon be.
That such developments should comprise a mix of uses — residential, commercial, civic, institutional — is an orthodoxy of design and land use planning. 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 in this vein dot what otherwise looks on a map like suburbia.
They’re typically near rail transit,…
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