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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree that McLean doesn't have a downtown feel to it, even though there is a concentration of businesses near the intersection of Old Dominion Drive & Chain Bridge. The trendy new "Downtown," if you want to call it that, is now "The Boro": one Metro stop beyond Tysons Corner. The Fairfax counterpart to Pike & Rose in MoCo.[/quote]

It's not "new" or "trendy". Someone bullying everyone to admit that there is "no downtown in Mclean" and "we all agree" means absolutely nothing.  It's simply a central business district of Mclean (CBD) which is what the definition of "downtown" is, nothing more.   When you drive on Chain Bridge there are signs "downtown Mclean" , I guess somehow it weirdly bothers people  :roll:

If we are talking about suburbia then its "downtown" or business district will have car oriented nature, there is nothing more to it.  It's going to be different from the downtown of an older pre-car, pre-suburbia town.  As demand for pedestrian lifestyle rises with more multifamily going up and more local people preferring to walk if nicer businesses open up then area starts getting gradually redeveloped.  Clarendon wasn't always what it is now either.  I remember very well when a lot of it was strip malls.. We used to go out to restaurants with parking lots up front and drink in some of the "strip mall bars"  :lol:

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