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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One theory - completely unfounded - is that they did it to fold in some generals' kids from Ft Myer.

The diversity argument is a decent one, except that most of the people living in the high-priced apartments in Rosslyn/Courthouse are white too.

There's also a pocket of South Arlington homes that feed into Washington-Lee, despite being closer to Wakefield.  I think that's a diversity play.[/quote]

Ha! They now get the 3-8 million Turnberry tower condos, the  3 million elevator townhomes behind Iwo Jima... Kind of backfired.  [/quote]

People who live in those condos and townhouses aren't likely to have kids or send any kids they have to APS.

OTOH, low-income families who live in the remaining garden apartments in the Rosslyn area are. [/quote]

Well--- the families in the 2million+ homes in my neighborhood do send their kids to public.  My daughter's best friend (from our elem) lives in those elevator townhomes in Rosslyn.  It is one of the best pyramids 'Science Focus-WMS-Yorktown'.[/quote]

[b]There aren't many $2 million properties in Arlington to begin with[/b], so an anecdote doesn 't make the generalization wrong.[/quote]

You are absolutely wrong about this. The Turnberry Tower (which is in Arlington) with 240 plus units is considered a neighborhood in it of itself by the county and the banks giving loans to buyers. Price for a one bedroom, 1300 sf starts at 1+ million to more than 10 millions for a 3 bedroom. The 5+ million condos don't show up in a regular resident search because they are bought with LLC by the owners. There are several cash buyers and trust funds younger buyers. I think it is the only 'neighborhood' in the county where you will find 5 -10 million dollars home. However, you can tell the purchasing power of these residents by not only the Ferraris, Maseratis, lamborghini coming out of the garages but the Mcclaren and the Aston Martin. Those people definitely lives in 4 plus million dollar homes there. Even Marvin Bush's 3.9 million (public record) at purchase date shows how clueless your assumptions is about Arlington. I am waiting to see a bugatti coming out of there [/quote]

Cool story, bro.

None of these penthouse-y, 2nd home / pied-a-terre condos in the "Towers" are being purchased by families with 5 and 8 year olds who will go to public school.  You accidently wandered into a Schools discussion and it's irrelevant that dishonest Chinese nationals (LLCs), fat 65-yr old Carlyle Group partners and single Tech Guys have bought 1-bedroom $5 million condos as investments.

You should take your luxury sports car exhaustive story over to the Real Estate forum, however.  You should also probably brush up on average home price vs. median home price in Arlington before you do.[/quote]

Seriously.  I checked a real estate and it looked that there'd been about 21 $2M sales in Arlington since the beginning of 2013, including four in Turnberry Towers.  That excludes direct sales, but it's just not a huge number compared to the number of such transactions in Bethesda (49), McLean (95) or Georgetown (59).  So the original point - that the Yorktown "island" near Rosslyn still adds diversity to the school - remains relevant, despite the attempt of the Arlington poster to try and make all of Arlington sound ultra-luxe. [/quote]

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