Fairfax State of the Union - Tysons and Mosiac Redevelopment are the FUTURE Video

[Anonymous]

For those of you naysayers or people that think it's just a mall check out the video.

Things are changing and Tysons isn't going to just some mall with congested roads.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbSbVvAiRZ4&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/in-unconventional-address-fairfax-chairman-says-redevelopment-is-the-countys-future/2013/02/20/aadb3db6-7b80-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_story.html?hpid=z4

[Anonymous]

What Fairfax hopes for and what it will achieve are not the same thing. Tysons was developed specifically as a car-centric area. Office workers there frequently drive to lunch. Trying to turn that into a pedestrian friendly area is hardly a sure thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What Fairfax hopes for and what it will achieve are not the same thing. Tysons was developed specifically as a car-centric area. Office workers there frequently drive to lunch. Trying to turn that into a pedestrian friendly area is hardly a sure thing.

You say that, but there's a video. A VIDEO.

What more will it take to convince you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What Fairfax hopes for and what it will achieve are not the same thing. Tysons was developed specifically as a car-centric area. Office workers there frequently drive to lunch. Trying to turn that into a pedestrian friendly area is hardly a sure thing.

You say that, but there's a video. A VIDEO.

What more will it take to convince you?

Not only that, there's a PLAN. I'm sure it won't turn out like one of these.

http://weburbanist.com/2010/08/30/retro-futurism-13-failed-urban-design-ideas/

[Anonymous]

What is wrong with you? Let it go.

[Anonymous]

Welcome Agenda 21

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What Fairfax hopes for and what it will achieve are not the same thing. Tysons was developed specifically as a car-centric area. Office workers there frequently drive to lunch. Trying to turn that into a pedestrian friendly area is hardly a sure thing.

You say that, but there's a video. A VIDEO.

What more will it take to convince you?

LMAO.

[Anonymous]

The new massive redevelopment "Ballston Center at 4238 Wilson Boulevard" is also the FUTURE. Arlington is moving beyond the mall, and it already has the urban setting Tyson's hopes to emulate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new massive redevelopment "Ballston Center at 4238 Wilson Boulevard" is also the FUTURE. Arlington is moving beyond the mall, and it already has the urban setting Tyson's hopes to emulate.

Lolz good luck

[Anonymous]

It really doesn't matter. Tysons is where the jobs will be. Don't believe me? The county will bribe, with huge tax incentives, even more companies to headquarter there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What Fairfax hopes for and what it will achieve are not the same thing. Tysons was developed specifically as a car-centric area. Office workers there frequently drive to lunch. Trying to turn that into a pedestrian friendly area is hardly a sure thing.

You say that, but there's a video. A VIDEO.

What more will it take to convince you?

LMAO.

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[Anonymous]

I like this comment on the website:

"Tyson's has improved with the new metro. It now looks like the rental car park area at O'hara in Chicago. Adds a nice light industry vibe to the office park feel."

This is so true. Have fun walking through parking lots and highway overpasses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It really doesn't matter. Tysons is where the jobs will be. Don't believe me? The county will bribe, with huge tax incentives, even more companies to headquarter there.

I don't mind it, but you won't pay me enough to live right there next to all this office park, parking lot extravaganza. It can't help the fact that it is a very car centered environment, it's surrounded by suburbia and is super congested and people who go there need parking. This will never change. I am glad tysons is developing, but I still prefer 5-10 min drive from my quiet and quaint residential neighborhood as opposed to living smack in the middle of this congested highway hellhole. I think living there is ok for people who work in DC area temporarily, or for younger people wanting easier commutes and cheaper prices than the city. Still, you cannot pay me enough to move there with the family and I care less living in the residential areas next to highways that will be "walkable" there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What Fairfax hopes for and what it will achieve are not the same thing. Tysons was developed specifically as a car-centric area. Office workers there frequently drive to lunch. Trying to turn that into a pedestrian friendly area is hardly a sure thing.

You say that, but there's a video. A VIDEO.

What more will it take to convince you?

Not only that, there's a PLAN. I'm sure it won't turn out like one of these.

http://weburbanist.com/2010/08/30/retro-futurism-13-failed-urban-design-ideas/

Having people living very near their work is not a plausible vision these days because jobs are so fluid, nobody works at the same location for 20 years anymore, but people still want to put roots down somewhere and raise there kids through school without moving. You can change jobs every 2-5 years or your corporate office can change locations and then what? Pick up and move? People want short commutes to jobs, but they don't want to live right there smack in the middle of the office parks necessarily, which is why probably most of the downtown office building locations are devoid of life even in the big cities.

[Anonymous]

Times change, but throughout it all, a love of proximity to the features of the Mosaic District will bind us together.