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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tysons[/quote]

Many years ago, I worked for an ad agency in LA. Our clients were luxury brands like Tiffany and Cartier. While developing advertising plans to support their retail stores, “Tyson’s” was always a key market for the client. Since I had never lived in the DC area, I envisioned a super luxurious Beverly Hills / Rodeo Drive type shopping area, our perhaps an outdoor shopping center like Fashion Island. When I moved to DC five years ago, I was so excited to finally see Tysons! I drove around and around, thinking there was some hidden gem of a high street/shopping area that I kept missing. Nope, Tysons is just a convergence of highways, strip malls  and parking lots.  I just couldn’t believe the disconnect between my perception and the reality of Tyson’s. [/quote]

I found it pretty shocking too that such a high end shopping area would be a ho hum indoor mall with literally nothing cute to walk to, no sidewalk cafes, not tree lined streets that other major cities have around high end shopping.  It’s getting changed though, seems like.  There is now Boro which is tiny area, literally a block of what looks like human scale urban grid with sidewalk restaurants.  Area around Cap One is gong through changes too. It will take some time for it to get closer to human scale despite already having plenty of high rise development and a skyline similar to a smaller US city.

DC has high end shopping in its downtown area and it cute, although areas around could be sketchy.  I am surprised why DC doesn’t have more high end shopping in Gtown (which is its most expensive neighborhood) or nearby West End/Foggy Bottom, Midtown which have nice urban grid and plenty of space for more stores, with Kennedy center drawing people with money, embassies, hotels, luxury condos, $$$ private universities. [/quote]

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