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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bethesda is not an edge city. Tysons is an edge city (in fact, Tysons was one of the archetypical edge city). Downtown Bethesda is an urban sub-center in a polycentric urban area. [/quote]

If you put more commercial and office space and an intercounty connector train station in, it will have more of the qualifications for an edge city.  Is that not what is wanted by removing this cap?

I feel like I'm trying to explain what would make things look better and be better and the responders just want to argue about pedantic things like the cost of living in central Paris and whether edge city is apt.  As I recall Rosslyn counted as an edge city.  We were discussing the potential Rosslynization of Bethesda.

If you read the link I posted (relinked below) it talks about new trends in edge cities that describe very well what I'm recommending in adequate professional urban plannerspeak.  I don't really care how you define Bethesda.  Just please do more justice to the great raw materials you have there.

https://www.naiop.org/research-and-publications/magazine/2021/fall-2021/business-trends/suburbs-edge-cities-and-santa-fe-a-conversation-with-joel-garreau/#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20Tysons%2C%20Virginia,area%20near%20Raleigh%2C%20North%20Carolina.[/quote]

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