Posts about Development
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Skip the housing, get the affordable housing tax credit?
According to DCmud, due to some bizarre quirks of Arlington’s tax code, a developer building near the Metro is getting affordable housing tax credits… for not building housing. Or maybe not; see the update below. Keep reading…
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St. Elizabeth’s is a campus, not a fortress
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is consolidating its 60-some-odd area offices to a centralized campus. Finally. This move is smart, as it will improve the organization’s efficiency and bring it up to par with other executive branch defense organizations with their own headquarters like the CIA, the NSA, the Department of Defense, the DIA, and the FBI. Keep reading…
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TOD before transit on the Dulles corridor: Herndon’s Arrowbrook
Herndon is getting a brand new “town center” development, called Arrowbrook Centre. While work on the actual town center hasn’t started yet, a 6-acre wetlands park broke ground earlier this year. The first phase will include 422,000 square feet of office space, 160,000 square feet of specialty retail/restaurant space and 407 luxury apartment homes. Eventually… Keep reading…
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Wasteful development at Landover Metro
It’s no secret that Prince George’s County is lousy at developing around its Metro stations. But check this madness out by Landover Metro station on the Orange Line: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unexpected consequences
Save the trail, prevent other trails: Creators of the Capital Crescent Trail always intended it to run along with transit. A bike trail was a good immediate use of a temporarily unused transit ROW. Now that Montgomery residents opposed to transit are opposing the Purple Line because of the trail, one original trail planner regrets creating it in the first place. And, WashCycle explains,… Keep reading…
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Merrifield: Fairfax’s first try at TOD
The proposed redevelopment (or reinvention) of Tysons Corner, the Silver Line, and Fairfax County’s accompanying rezoning have gotten a lot of attention. But just to the south of that currently nightmarish crossroads is the county’s first stab at transforming an office park and auto-dependent suburb into human-scale mixed use and transit oriented development. Keep reading…
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Bloomingdale is not Alaskan tundra
Ryan Avent had the same reaction I did to the new No Drilling at McMillan blog. Its intro reads, Keep reading…
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How about a North Capitol Red Line branch?
Large mixed-use development projects at the McMillan Sand Filtration site and Armed Forces Retirement Home will add density and thousands of residential units to an area far from Metro. Current Bloomingdale residents are concerned about increased traffic, as the area is already a bottleneck, pinched between parks, universities and cemeteries that have severed the street grids. Keep reading…
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Back to the future in commercial real estate
Newsweek economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson declared in his December 29, 2008 column that 2008 was “the end of an era.” He wrote, “We know 2008, much like 1932 or 1980[?], marks a dividing line for the American economy and society.” The economic trends in the commercial real estate market bear out Samuelson’s claim. On Friday,… Keep reading…
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Prince George’s great Heights
At the four corners of the original District of Columbia are four very distinct developments. In the south, Alexandria hugs the Potomac River as a classic example of a traditional city. On the west corner is Falls Church, a typical but up-and-coming Virginia suburb. In the north, Silver Spring sits atop the District’s crown showcasing the triumphant transition from a suburb… Keep reading…