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[krazeeboi]

The plan, outlined in a new transit district development plan and zoning overlay that received preliminary approval July 30 from the Prince George's County Planning Board, envisions five distinct "neighborhoods" in the 640-acre site, with as many as 5,500 housing units and as much as 6.1 million square feet of office and retail space. A renovated train station would anchor the urban Metro Core neighborhood, where mixed-use high-rises would sprout around the existing Internal Revenue Service and Computer Sciences Corp. buildings. The surrounding neighborhoods would consist of smaller mixed-use structures and existing homes. Extensive redevelopment is also planned for neighborhoods designated in the plan as the Annapolis Road Corridor and Garden City.

[skylinefan]

krazeeboi, on Aug 14 2009, 10:26 AM, said:

The plan, outlined in a new transit district development plan and zoning overlay that received preliminary approval July 30 from the Prince George's County Planning Board, envisions five distinct "neighborhoods" in the 640-acre site, with as many as 5,500 housing units and as much as 6.1 million square feet of office and retail space. A renovated train station would anchor the urban Metro Core neighborhood, where mixed-use high-rises would sprout around the existing Internal Revenue Service and Computer Sciences Corp. buildings. The surrounding neighborhoods would consist of smaller mixed-use structures and existing homes. Extensive redevelopment is also planned for neighborhoods designated in the plan as the Annapolis Road Corridor and Garden City.

I think this is a fantastic idea. Everytime I would take Amtrak to New York and make the stop at New Carrolton it struck me that this part of Prince Georges should become much more pedestrian friendly because of the Metro station there and all of the office buildings that surround it.  Right now it is not pedestrian friendly with broad boulevards and huge parking lots.  Oh how I hate surface parking lots.  If New Carrollton becomes urbanized I think it will become as much a destination as Bethesda, Clarendon or Ballston.