Operation: Real Estate |
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The Great Metro Land Grab, 1970 | Real estate ad, 1984 | Pentagon City mall entrance | Silver Spring, 1998 | Vienna Station, 1997 | |||||||||||||||||
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One of the key goals
of Metro's planners was to encourage dense development around stations,
fighting sprawl while boosting patronage. By the early 1970s, Metro's
potential to boost property values was a subject of much speculation.
By the 1980s, developers bragged about the proximity of their projects
to stations, sometimes featuring passageways to them. In some places,
things have worked out just as planned, with buildings clustered around
stations, but elsewhere, due to political or market forces, stations are
surrounded by little but parking lots.
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