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:

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.