Posts tagged Rosslyn
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Northern Virginia skyscraper rivalry has a new leader: Fairfax approves 470′ Capital One tower
Last Friday, Fairfax officially approved a new headquarters tower for Capital One in Tysons Corner. At 470 feet tall the new building will be the tallest in the DC region after the Washington Monument. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Malign neglect
Public housing demolition by neglect; Homeless in DC; Intersection of less-certain doom; The price of control; Sticker shock; Brookland bidding war; Hide your cans; Until it goes “click”; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Who needs a license?
Taxis vs. the future; License to tour; Not too high; Get ready to bike to work; No place to park; Bus flips; From students to Shakespeare; Solar pavement; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Victims of the road
Cycling hit on Bike to School Day; Hit-and-run gets 6 months; Intersection of doom; Did confusion kill?; Transit first in MoCo; Right to play; Heights stay; Returning home; Diversifying the housing stock; Can’t build there. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Migration
Fewer move to Washington; Act with autonomy, or not?; Sprawl continues amid transit; Purple Line property purchases coming; Bold ideas to improve Rosslyn; Peak tourism follows peak bloom; And…. Keep reading…
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Tetris on the side of a skyscraper? Why not, it’s the future
What does it look like when one of Philadelphia’s most prominent skyscrapers becomes a giant Tetris game board? It looks awesome, that’s what. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Planning places
Happy Birthday, Reston!; Greens fore housing; Landscaping’s good, bad, and ugly; How tomorrow doesn’t move; Feats of strength up next; If biking were a pill…; “Is the dog included?”; Robocop II: Dogwalkercop; Towers rise in London; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Muriels and murals
Bowser won’t name legislative achievements; Old-timers resent mural, process; Stroll through abandominiums; Stand up and be counted; Trail will connect 9/11 sites; Crescent Trail getting plowed?; Georgetown booze opportunity; Senator pushes autonomy; Going where DC cannot; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The 27% Solution
Dead heat; Gray wouldn’t resign; Will new residents matter?; Park, not parking; Rethinking Rosslyn; One capital tower; Clear snow in MoCo?; A different kind of biker crash; And…. Keep reading…
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Arlington’s new vision for Rosslyn doesn’t address the “intersection of doom”
Arlington County wants to create more transportation options in Rosslyn and make it safer and more pleasant to walk or bike there. But the plan the county’s working on may undermine that vision by ignoring existing bicycle and pedestrian safety issues. Realize Rosslyn is a major planning effort; for over a year, Arlington County has been holding meetings, studying travel… Keep reading…