What happened to Clarendon?

[Anonymous]

Clarendon was never good to begin with unless you recently graduated college and are white. That or if you wanted to get into a fight, go to Ballroom or spider kellys.

I have noticed that now Clarendon and Ballston have the same college grads who now have kids and are too poor to go buy a house in nearby neighborhoods so they raise their kids in the safe white condos because they can't afford a house.

[Anonymous]

Ba Alston Quarter is now big with tween crowd. Know because I have to drop off and pick up there every week

[Anonymous]

Clarendon has literally nothing that makes me want to go there.

I heard so much hype about Ballston Quarter but when I went there it looked just like the mall. Even still has the sad Macy’s.

The restaurants that are coming to Ballston overlap with Mosaic and I’d much rather go to Mosaic and walk around than hang out in an old mall on crowded streets filled with ugly buildings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clarendon was never good to begin with unless you recently graduated college and are white. That or if you wanted to get into a fight, go to Ballroom or spider kellys.

I have noticed that now Clarendon and Ballston have the same college grads who now have kids and are too poor to go buy a house in nearby neighborhoods so they raise their kids in the safe white condos because they can't afford a house.

Are you really crapping on people for choosing to raise kids in a safe and convenient neighborhood?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clarendon has literally nothing that makes me want to go there.

I heard so much hype about Ballston Quarter but when I went there it looked just like the mall. Even still has the sad Macy’s.

The restaurants that are coming to Ballston overlap with Mosaic and I’d much rather go to Mosaic and walk around than hang out in an old mall on crowded streets filled with ugly buildings.

Yeah but you have to drive half an hour to get to mosaic. They have a lot more real estate to do work with so it was a lot nicer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clarendon was never good to begin with unless you recently graduated college and are white. That or if you wanted to get into a fight, go to Ballroom or spider kellys.

I have noticed that now Clarendon and Ballston have the same college grads who now have kids and are too poor to go buy a house in nearby neighborhoods so they raise their kids in the safe white condos because they can't afford a house.

Are you really crapping on people for choosing to raise kids in a safe and convenient neighborhood?

Safe is anywhere in NOVA. Clarendon is just sterile and boring as hell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clarendon has literally nothing that makes me want to go there.

I heard so much hype about Ballston Quarter but when I went there it looked just like the mall. Even still has the sad Macy’s.

The restaurants that are coming to Ballston overlap with Mosaic and I’d much rather go to Mosaic and walk around than hang out in an old mall on crowded streets filled with ugly buildings.

+1 it has zero appeal unless you want to be around suburban white people who all act the same way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clarendon was never good to begin with unless you recently graduated college and are white. That or if you wanted to get into a fight, go to Ballroom or spider kellys.

I have noticed that now Clarendon and Ballston have the same college grads who now have kids and are too poor to go buy a house in nearby neighborhoods so they raise their kids in the safe white condos because they can't afford a house.

Are you really crapping on people for choosing to raise kids in a safe and convenient neighborhood?

Safe is anywhere in NOVA. Clarendon is just sterile and boring as hell.

Which for families is great! And walkable and easy commute to DC. No one who lives in Clarendon thinks it’s cools... why is everyone harping on it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a DC resident, I cannot distinguish between Clarendon and Ballston. They both seem like ugly stretches of heavy traffic with giant ugly buildings. The only thing I noticed when I had to travel to Ballston over the summer several times for business there is how WHITE it is compared to the Orange/Silver line in the other direction that I usually take.

Wait until
You see the schools!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clarendon has literally nothing that makes me want to go there.

I heard so much hype about Ballston Quarter but when I went there it looked just like the mall. Even still has the sad Macy’s.

The restaurants that are coming to Ballston overlap with Mosaic and I’d much rather go to Mosaic and walk around than hang out in an old mall on crowded streets filled with ugly buildings.

Yeah but you have to drive half an hour to get to mosaic. They have a lot more real estate to do work with so it was a lot nicer

+1

Lots of space when you plop down a development in an industrial park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Nobody ever goes there anymore — it’s too crowded"
Someone had to say it.

Exactly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clarendon has literally nothing that makes me want to go there.

I heard so much hype about Ballston Quarter but when I went there it looked just like the mall. Even still has the sad Macy’s.

The restaurants that are coming to Ballston overlap with Mosaic and I’d much rather go to Mosaic and walk around than hang out in an old mall on crowded streets filled with ugly buildings.

Yeah but you have to drive half an hour to get to mosaic. They have a lot more real estate to do work with so it was a lot nicer

Out side of the advantage of being able to do a target run I don't see much difference between Mosaic and Ballston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clarendon has literally nothing that makes me want to go there.

I heard so much hype about Ballston Quarter but when I went there it looked just like the mall. Even still has the sad Macy’s.

The restaurants that are coming to Ballston overlap with Mosaic and I’d much rather go to Mosaic and walk around than hang out in an old mall on crowded streets filled with ugly buildings.

^^Macy's should have been required to remodel to stay there. I agree it doesn't really feel that much different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clarendon has literally nothing that makes me want to go there.

I heard so much hype about Ballston Quarter but when I went there it looked just like the mall. Even still has the sad Macy’s.

The restaurants that are coming to Ballston overlap with Mosaic and I’d much rather go to Mosaic and walk around than hang out in an old mall on crowded streets filled with ugly buildings.

Yeah but you have to drive half an hour to get to mosaic. They have a lot more real estate to do work with so it was a lot nicer

Out side of the advantage of being able to do a target run I don't see much difference between Mosaic and Ballston.

Mosaic was Fairfax County's version Clarendon. When it opened in the mid-2010s, it was a stark departure from the way that Fairfax Country had previously approached development planning. Today it feels like a larger version of Clarendon, and no one gives it a second thought. But that just shows how far the area has come.

https://www.naiop.org/en/Magazine/2013/Fall-2013/Development-Ownership/The-Mosaic-District

My question is why is Mosaic more successfully than Reston Town Center? Both are similar, but I know people in Herndon who prefer to come to Mosaic rather than the much closer RTC...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clarendon was never good to begin with unless you recently graduated college and are white. That or if you wanted to get into a fight, go to Ballroom or spider kellys.

I have noticed that now Clarendon and Ballston have the same college grads who now have kids and are too poor to go buy a house in nearby neighborhoods so they raise their kids in the safe white condos because they can't afford a house.

Are you really crapping on people for choosing to raise kids in a safe and convenient neighborhood?

Safe is anywhere in NOVA. Clarendon is just sterile and boring as hell.

Which for families is great! And walkable and easy commute to DC. No one who lives in Clarendon thinks it’s cools... why is everyone harping on it?

+1

I gave up on "being cool" when I moved to the DC area.