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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The FBI relocation to Springfield is a long shot.[/quote]

I don't know about long shot.  Seems to me it has just a good a shot as the other locations being proposed.  Maybe it will happen, maybe it won't, but I wouldn't say long shot. [/quote]

Have you been down there lately???? The entire BRAC realignment (the 2005 BRAC law resulted in the transfer of more than 18,000 Department of Defense jobs to Fort Belvoir) has completely transformed the landscape.  The secret CIA location no longer exists and now hosts the new buidlings and businesses that serve the Dept Defense.  Some of the homes surrounding neighborhoods are selling in 24 hours at competitive prices.

Lee was an excellent school back in the 80s.  It rivaled West Springfield HS and actually many W.Spring. neighborhoods were redistricted to Lee.  The sports teams were VA State Champions.  Boys and Girls won VA State Soccer the same year.

Then- in the 90s the area around the Mall fell to crap.  The school got bad.  The population attending changed. [b] I have heard it is completely back at the upswing and have a revival of sorts---primarily due to the revilitization due to BRAC.[/b][/quote]

Sorry , not yet. It's going to take a decade at least after the rebuild of that area.[/quote]

The residential areas near Garfield and Lynbrook ES have a long way to go.   Saratoga is a different story.   [/quote]

Saratoga is basically West Springfield--though zoned Lee.  Houses are selling very quickly there now.  It is close to new BRACES area.[/quote]

I agree.  However, when my wife and I were home shopping last year, we did find that similar homes in the area would be $40-$50k more if the home was north of the Fairfax County Pkwy and thus zoned for WS instead of south of the Pkwy and zoned for Lee.  I think Saratoga is a great little pocket of homes that is quite convenient for those relocating on account of BRAC or even for commuting generally in this area.  Being in the Lee HS pyramid probably puts a little downward pressure on home prices for now, but that could very well change in coming years.  [/quote]

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