A consultant charged with mapping out the future of Tysons Corner has put forth three dramatically different visions for redevelopment in the path of four new Metro stations.
The scenarios, created by PB PlaceMaking as part of an ongoing planning effort by the Tysons Land Use Task Force, represent some of the first images of what planners envision for Fairfax County’s downtown.
Each would allow major redevelopment in a quarter-mile radius around the new stations, which are slated to open in 2013 as part of the 23-mile extension of Metro to Dulles.
The proposals differ, however, on exactly how much and what kind of growth would be allowed, and where it will be located.
The first model puts a business center near the middle of Tysons, two parallel main streets and a serpentine circulator system cutting through the entire area.
The second would include a long “green network” of connected open space and parks and two straight main streets surrounded by dense, mixed use development.
The final scenario places most of the new housing around the new stations, and secondary nodes of residential and retail space sprout out from the main clusters.
“The end result is probably going to be a mix and match,” said Clark Tyler, chairman of the task force. “These are not the final alternative ‘pick one.’ It’s what do you like about it, or what you don’t like about it.”
The task force plans to showcase the plans next month in the three county districts that surround Tysons: Hunter Mill, Dranesville and Providence.
