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Not to be nitpicky since we're just discussing definitions and semantics, but according to this definition of the Favored Quarter (http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=611), North Arlington lies in the Favored Quarter. A place in the Favored Quarter can locally be in decline as was the case of the Wilson Blvd. corridor.

I argue that it's in the Favored Quarter because of the fact that it was on the way to what was the new spiffy Tysons Corner. I think that fact was a good part of the reason why its urban form revitalization was so successful at a time when few realtors, residential or commercial, would even touch urban form properties.

Think back to the '80s and '90s. Can you imagine such a project being such a smashing success on the Blue Line south/west of Old Town Alexandria at that time?

Anyway, semantics aside, thank you for the link to the photo. I think we can all agree that what is there now is a much more efficient and productive use of the land.

by Cavan on Oct 23, 2008 4:26 pm • link • report

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