Peterson, a Northern Virginia developer who made his name creating suburban town-center communities such as Fair Lakes, calls the site of his National Harbor project "like Marilyn Monroe on the water . . . it's beautiful and it's got great sex appeal." He's banking on that, and on the site's accessibility via a new Beltway interchange and water taxis that will begin operating when the community opens next April.
15 September 2007
Washington waterfronts
When we take our Fall Field Trip to Washington, two of the areas to watch will be the riverfronts which are seeing a boom in development. The Washington Post has a great graphic of the next $2 billion in new developments along the Anacostia and Potomac. The Post article describes how some of the developments are going to be something new:
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