Category: Development

One of the most common arguments against land use planning which incorporates multi-family and townhome development is that most people do not want to live in small units, and that most families are too large to live in anything but single family housing. Statistically speaking, in Fairfax, it is true that the majority of households […]

It has been a couple of months since our last update on progress from Spring Hill Station. Last month Georgelas announced they will be proceeding with building their second mixed-use tower at Spring Hill Station this year concurrently with Ascent. Both high-rises will become striking additions to the Tysons skyline, especially on approach from Route […]

Northern Virginia has faced a transportation crisis since the mid-1980s. The area retained one of the highest education, affluence, and rate of employment ranks through out the period which saw Northern Virginia turn from farmland to an economic powerhouse on par with the adjacent District of Columbia. The growth of the area acted as a […]

The Washington Post this past week ran an article after WMATA’s annual meeting which focused on Metro’s plans to sell or lease property around their metro stations in order to generate revenue. One commenter said that WMATA shouldn’t be selling property, because the government shouldn’t be a real estate agency and then went on to say that […]

When you are travelling to a new city what you pay attention to likely indicates what you find most interesting in life. Some people notice food, some people talk about a cities architecture, or parks, or monuments. For a civil engineer, it’s impossible to move around a city without paying attention to infrastructure; rail, roads, […]

For the past month we have added several dozen models into the Tysons Corner google earth catalog we are combining. When we have completed the entire Tysons area we plan on submitting the data to Google Earth to include as grey buildings in the public Google Earth library. The collection is progressing but as we previously tweeted […]

This month we are taking a look at areas of Tysons which, with the opening of the Silver Line, may become obstacles and conditions for tragedy if Fairfax County does not pursue affordable and simple solutions immediately. Why are these existing conditions not safety concerns today? The type of use destination that exists today for […]

This past week Congressmen Gerry Connolly and Jim Moran, long time representatives of Northern Virginia, proposed a plan to extend the Orange Line to Centreville and the Blue Line (or possibly the Yellow Line) to Woodbridge. The study that they have requested $20 million for would look at the feasibility of the plan. Well Virginia, […]

Today Around the Corner; If you ride metro from WFC around Tysons you likely saw the hand out for the Silver Line open house meetings. There are 3 chances at 3 different locations to find out about the project, train schedules, costs, and other details not yet hammered out. If you can make any of […]