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New Arlington Condo Amenity: A Funeral Home

Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington PostSOME CONDO BUILDINGS include gyms, indoor pools and other add-ons to entice would-be buyers. But a new structure planned to rise in Arlington will boast an atypical amenity: a ground-floor funeral home.

The project is the Club on Quincy, a building slated to be constructed near the Ballston and Virginia Square stations on the Orange Line. And as The Post's Jerry Markon reported on Saturday, the jokes have already started about how the current Arlington Funeral Home, pictured here, will be incorporated into the new building.

Dennis Burr, a neighborhood resident and former president of the Ballston-Virginia Square Civic Association, tells The Post:

You can drop dead in your unit, just swoop downstairs and you're out. Hey, what's not to like?'
The 120-unit building, which will sit at Fairfax Drive and N. Pollard Street, won't be finished for at least four years.

» "Go 6 Floors Down, Then 6 Feet Under" [WaPo]

Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post

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  • If you anticipate a boring funeral, pick up a book on the way -- the main Arlington library is around the corner. Alternately, sneak out and play pool across the street.

    By Mike Licht , Posted December 17, 2007 5:33 PM
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