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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have been in McLean/22101 for about 15 years.  Housing stock has definitely gotten upgraded with more expensive homes in more neighborhoods.  Retail was blah then and blah now, but there's a bit more variety.  Schools are still good but overall confidence in FCPS leadership and basic competence has declined. [/quote]

Way back when most of us were still kids, the architects who designed Seaside Florida and  Kentlands (in Gaithersburg) proposed a massive overhaul of downtown McLean with shops, European/style streets with cafes and apartments above, offices, upscale retail, urban parks, and a town center or town green with community amenities. What the heck happened to that? That would’ve been amazing. Instead, downtown McLean looks the same—aging strip malls minus the Pizza Hut, Gourmet Giant, and Evan’s Farm Inn. [/quote]

So these places are gone but there wasn't a Matchbox or Santini's when there was a Pizza Hut, the Giant is still huge and there's a Balducci's nearby, and Evans Farm was replaced with expensive houses and townhouses that generate a lot of tax revenue for the county.

All the redevelopment plans were sent to the island of lost toys or something, because anything on a large scale never happens.  Just incremental, occasional development that is mostly residential apartments/condos (Palladium, Signet, Lowell), although Mars is currently building a new HQ off Elm and additional new apartments have been approved on both Chain Bridge and Old Dominion.   The Chesterbrook shopping area down Old Dominion also just got a face lift, so the Call Your Mother bagel place is now in a storefront rather than a trolly in a parking lot.   
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