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Nice piece.

WRT Bossi's point about Whole Foods and the UP demographic, the reality is that the retail trade area is going to be at least a five mile radius, and will draw upon a few hundred thousand people.

The other response would be "Wegmans."

Who would think a Wegmans could "thrive" in PG County? Well, it is.

The thing that I could have said better in my overlong piece is that these kinds of "pathbreaking" anchor developments (granted there are differences between the original and the current proposal) have the ability to reshape development paradigms in significant ways.

So more traffic now, but long term, less traffic, as more development is done that generates more transit, biking, and walking trips, and fewer trips by car.

Anyone who looks at the UTC example as a reason not to do this project is somewhat foolish (with the new commentator guidelines I don't want to say "stupid") because there are so many urban design faults with the development "around" PG Plaza Metro that for the most part it is a total misnomer to say any of it is "transit oriented."

by Richard Layman on Aug 18, 2011 12:28 pm • link • report

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