Fairfax County is on track to select a planning firm to help map out the future of Tysons Corner, according to county officials.
Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. will likely be awarded a contract worth up to about $1 million to assist in engineering a new, rail-accessible Tysons. Four miles of elevated track are slated to run through Tysons by 2012, part of a massive project to build Metrorail to and through Dulles airport.
The Metro-driven change is expected to bring about a massive redevelopment in an area that some consider to be the closest thing to Fairfax County’s downtown. While Tysons is now the county’s commercial hub, planners are hoping to add new residential use, as well as unclog a persistent traffic nightmare.
Parsons Brinckerhoff would work alongside the Tysons Land Use Task Force. Both would work with the goal of recommending changes to the county’s comprehensive plan, a document that guides land-use policy.
The firm will be selected by the county unless the Board of Supervisors directs otherwise, said Fairfax County spokeswoman Merni Fitzgerald.
