Green Line to Westphalia?
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IF YOU'RE HAVING trouble keeping track of planned, future and proposed transit expansion in the region — the Dulles Metrorail extension, the Green Line expansion to BWI, the Purple Line linking Bethesda, Sliver Spring, College Park and New Carrollton — here's another potential project to throw into the mix: The Green Line to Westphalia near Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County.
Its all part of a plan to make the Andrews Air Force Base area the National Defense and Technology Corridor, a notion championed by the Prince George's County Business Roundtable. As The Post's Anita Huslin reports:
...[T]he Business Roundtable suggested that the county's planned town center just east of Andrews should be developed with an eye to serving the military community. Under the county's plan, 15,000 units of housing, 2 million square feet of retail, six new schools, and hotels and entertainment venues would be built. Eventually, according to the plan, a town about half the size of Columbia would rise on 7,000 acres bound by Ritchie Marlboro Road to the north and east, the Capital Beltway to the west, and Maryland Route 4 to the south.An Andrews Air Force Base-area terminus never came into serious consideration during the drawn-out battle in the 1970s and '80s over where the Green Line's southern stretch should end.
OH, MAMA QUAN'S TIKI HUT, we hardly knew ye — mostly because you opened this spring and closed this fall. And that may be for the best. You and your precious air rights will probably be replaced with condos — that's what seems to be the thing to do in Clarendon these days. In yesterday's edition of The Post, Kim Hart examined the state of the urban village, a mixing of residential and commercial space that still carries a high level of mass appeal. But the question is also whether the growing popularity of places like Clarendon, which is looking more and more like Bethesda with countless new restaurants and bars opening there, is beginning to evolve like Dupont Circle — an area that's lost many of its smaller businesses to franchises and chains that can better adapt to the changing real estate market.
With that we have a real estate development quiz. Using Clarendon's development calculus, on to the first question:
1.) If Clarendon is a mix of Bethesda and Dupont Circle, which emerging development relationship makes the most sense?
a.) Virginia Square is mix of Federal Center SW and Congress Heights.2.) Which area near a Metrorail stop won't be seeing new large-scale mixed-use development for at least a year because of a city council decision last night?
b.) Wheaton is a mix of Clarendon and Rockville
c.) Petworth is a mix of Eastern Market and Dupont Circle.
d.) Branch Avenue is mix of Vienna-Fairfax and Largo Town Center.
a.) Largo Town Center3.) Barracks Row's "Main Street," 8th Street SE, has seen a dramatic overhaul in recent years. What Northeast neighborhood might real estate hawkers term the next Barracks Row?
b.) Rockville
c.) Wheaton
d.) Dunn Loring-Merrifield
a.) Brookland
b.) Eastland Gardens
c.) Trinidad
d.) Ivy City
Answers, and explanations after the jump.
Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post
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