Re: The New Tysons Corner
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TysonsEngineer
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Date: January 16, 2012 07:06PM
Arlington vs Tysons Corner. The thing about Arlington is its constrained in maximum height by National Airport, and DC of course has its issues about higher density. Tyson's while having the same impressive economic basis (if not better if you look at the diversity available in tysons) also does not have these artificial constraints. Arlington is the reason why Tysons is happening though, in the 1970s-2000s Arlington showed that better planning and more options in transportation can take an area thats doing pretty good and turn it into a power house in all measureable forms, economic, cultural, residential, yada yada. Those first steps in 1970 are the reason Arlington is as great of a place as it is today. I think Tysons only hope to be a more compact, maybe taller, version of Arlington in 50 years. If that happens consider it another big win for our area because then we will be talking about our own real northern virginia city when the areas in between those two regions fill in as well.
The key here is if Arlington, Reston, Fairfax, and Tysons are looked at together it is the 7th most economically powerful city in America behind cities like NYC, Chicago, LA, Boston, Philly, and Seattle. It's not about competing its about coagulating a good region to become a legit city (with all the inherent negatives but also the great positives).
I appreciate the good discussion, better than the pointless bickering before.