500 characters are not enough for all the HQ2 Phase II 'told ya so' bullet points I have in the queue
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https://wapo.st/43UAHEQ
Anyway, the craptacular Amazon-centric Pentagon City Sector Plan is, only a year after enactment, now basically unimplementable and hopefully irrelevant, so that's good https://www.arlingtonva.us/files/sharedassets/public/projects/documents/pentagon-city-planning-study/pentagoncitysectorplan_final_for_print.pdf
Can't resist, let's do some told-ya-so:
*If the megablock was broken up into more smaller-footprint parcels, maybe we'd be talking about partial buildout and repurposing. Instead, Helix and useless private lawn.
*If the Sector Plan didn't just copy-paste Amazon's plans, other planned and potential projects wouldn't be essentially frozen in place.
*If the Route 1 boulevard, that no one except the developers actually wants or benefits from, wasn't the primary state investment in local infrastructure, maybe the community would have more other improvements in the pipeline to look forward to.
*If HQ2 stopping stops promised improvements to the neighborhood, that seems like some bad planning, and perhaps more of those improvements should have been initiated under a PPP entity
Anyway, hopefully a bullet is being very slowly dodged, and Arlington's Seaport is eventually replaced with Arlington's Kendall Square.
Oh, and maybe the dinky trail along Amazon's 12th St S frontage that the Metroway "BRT" denies existing will get a respite.
https://transportation.social/web/@bikepedantic/110232406425777371