As elsewhere in Greater Washington, mixed-use projects around Metro dominate suburban Maryland’s development scene.
Prince George’s County, historically a lower-income bedroom community for D.C., wants to grow, especially along it’s Metro Blue Line corridor. With more Metro stations than any other suburban locality in Greater Washington, and the coming Purple Line, it has a fair bit of potential for transit-oriented development.
The county is in fierce competition with Northern Virginia to land the FBI’s long-awaited new headquarters. One of the proposed sites, Landover Mall, isn’t terribly close to a Metro station, but the other at Greenbelt is. Some have suggested the FBI could do for economic development in Prince George’s something like what the Pentagon has done for Northern Virginia, in terms becoming a government center of gravity around which industry would orbit. It’s also possible the Washington Commanders’ anticipated new stadium-and-entertainment-plex could…
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