The National Landing Business Improvement District (BID) in Northern Virginia has outlined plans for creating what it says will be the most “well-connected downtown in the country,” following its selection as home to Amazon HQ2. — Smart Cities Dive
According to Smart Cities Dive, National Landing BID has presented "several public-private partnership projects, with costs totaling $4 billion, that will improve transit in National Landing, outside of Washington, D.C., which encompasses parts of Virginia’s Crystal City, Pentagon City, Arlington County neighborhoods and the Potomac Yard neighborhood of Alexandria."
3 Comments
About time. I lived near there over a decade ago when all of those developments were going in. Good, dense, mixed use, walkable neighborhoods... completely isolated from everything else, accessible only by car via interstate. It was infuriating, so its great to see transit coming up at last.
Oh, I was thinking of National Harbor, which appears to be still - sadly - very inaccessible.
"several public-private partnership projects, with INITIAL costs totaling $4 billion but with deferred maintenance and the inevitable failure of the slap-dash and shoddy materials and installation required by the PRIVATE part of the partnership costing billions more MAGICALLY happening JUST AFTER the project reverts to public ownership, that will improve transit in National Landing, outside of Washington, D.C., which encompasses parts of Virginia’s Crystal City, Pentagon City, Arlington County neighborhoods and the Potomac Yard neighborhood of Alexandria. If you're lucky. Since we, the PRIVATE part, got our wad of profit, will really no longer give a fuck after we're contractually released."
Block this user
Are you sure you want to block this user and hide all related comments throughout the site?
Archinect
This is your first comment on Archinect. Your comment will be visible once approved.