Urban Retrofitters: The Plan to Remake Tysons Corner
GOOD MORNING, WASHINGTON. We're hip-deep in the time of year when most people are thinking about slimming down, but in Tysons Corner, the talk is all about bulking up: new high-rises, more roads and "enough parks, schools, police stations and firehouses to serve an entirely new place," The Post's Amy Gardner reports.
It's all part of a plan to turn Tysons Corner in appearance into what it's become by default: a city, but one that's more walkable and accessible than the confusing knot of access roads that exists now — the result of decades of suburban sprawl.
The task: remaking an area that's home to several major highways, 28 million square feet of offices and 40 million square feet of parking, as well as a destination for 120,000 workers and customers at two of the nation's most bustling shopping malls. Piece of cake, right?
Yeah, not so much. Reports Gardner:
Rebuilding Tysons is a huge undertaking of unknown cost and other uncertainties, including whether Metrorail will ever be built through Tysons to Dulles International Airport. It is also a potentially explosive proposition that will bring out powerful civic groups opposed to too much development. It is at the mercy of the area's physical impediments, which include four major highways and paralyzing traffic. And it is dependent upon the willingness of landowners and taxpayers to bear the cost of building a city from the ground up.Get more information on the plan to transform Tysons in the video above from washingtonpost.com, which Gardner narrates.
» "Plan to Remake Tysons Corner Envisions Dense Urban Center" [WaPo]
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