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 fewer Amazonians will be driving to the office every day, perhaps the 4,000 new parking spaces planned were A Bad Idea That Don't Belong in Arlington's New Downtown.
*How many more years will Arlington hold open all the extra arterial roadway capacity for the more peak hour cars that won't and shouldn't come to Pentagon City?
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
Anyway, hopefully a bullet is being very slowly dodged, and Arlington's Seaport is eventually replaced with Arlington's Kendall Square.