Aprogressivone
Developers are the new Rockstars
I'm having a home built in Suitland, MD at the moment. This area is prime for change. It is walking distance to a metro station. It is right across the street from a huge federal campus called "Suitland Federal Center". The headquarters of the Census Bureau is here for example. I did a test drive from the neighborhood before buying and was able to drive to the Navy Yard/Water Front in under 15 min. It was a legit 12 minutes to the Nationals baseball Park. This was on Saturday on a game day. It is also the same distance or even less to the revitalizing Anacostia Neighborhood in SE DC. I checked out the new Busboys & Poets that opened there and it was dope. The neighborhood also has a local elementary school prime for change. This combined with the planned redevelopment going on is insane. I got a 4 bed, 3.5 bath, 2 car garage, 4 story, roof top deck townhouse. Price makes me laugh at people without kids paying 3500 a month for a 2 bedroom in Navy Yard.
Here is what I think will happen. The first is immediate increased economic diversity coming to this area. Reality is money talks. Federal employees and contractors that work across the street have already been buying homes. This neighborhood will shorten the commute for many people. Bowie, Upper Marlboro,and Mitchellville, and Woodmore is cool, but it is still far as hell from the city due to traffic. This neighborhood is sitting right outside of DC. It is literally like an Arlington Crystal City when it comes to closeness to DC. I met some of my future neighbors who have bought and it seems like a lot of younger people and young couples will be living here.
The elementary school is right across the street. I plan on doing this and so this others I talked to. Spend time volunteering at the school. It is currently lower ranked and high farms(free and reduced meals), but the economic influence will change that if parents and volunteers fight for the school instead of just going to private. Property taxes are high in Prince George's I refuse that. I'm going to fight for improving what my taxes go toward. Studies show the lower the farm rate the better the test scores. Also lower economic kids mixed with higher economic kids increases the lower economic kids grades and test scores. I'm fighting my butt off for this school to be great. When greatschools.org ratings go up, so does your property value. Being super far out from the city ain't the future. Being close in near a metro stop is. PG is really improving.
Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground | WTOP
Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground
Jeff Clabaugh | @wtopclabaugh
November 16, 2017, 10:23 AM
Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground | WTOP
Here is what I think will happen. The first is immediate increased economic diversity coming to this area. Reality is money talks. Federal employees and contractors that work across the street have already been buying homes. This neighborhood will shorten the commute for many people. Bowie, Upper Marlboro,and Mitchellville, and Woodmore is cool, but it is still far as hell from the city due to traffic. This neighborhood is sitting right outside of DC. It is literally like an Arlington Crystal City when it comes to closeness to DC. I met some of my future neighbors who have bought and it seems like a lot of younger people and young couples will be living here.
The elementary school is right across the street. I plan on doing this and so this others I talked to. Spend time volunteering at the school. It is currently lower ranked and high farms(free and reduced meals), but the economic influence will change that if parents and volunteers fight for the school instead of just going to private. Property taxes are high in Prince George's I refuse that. I'm going to fight for improving what my taxes go toward. Studies show the lower the farm rate the better the test scores. Also lower economic kids mixed with higher economic kids increases the lower economic kids grades and test scores. I'm fighting my butt off for this school to be great. When greatschools.org ratings go up, so does your property value. Being super far out from the city ain't the future. Being close in near a metro stop is. PG is really improving.
Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground | WTOP
Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground
Jeff Clabaugh | @wtopclabaugh
November 16, 2017, 10:23 AM
- WASHINGTON — Prince George’s County officials break ground Thursday on Town Square at Suitland Federal Center, called the largest redevelopment project in the Maryland county’s history.
Town Square at Suitland Federal Center, at 4730 Homer Ave., is a 1-million-square-foot, mixed-use development that will include close to 900 apartments and single family homes, 100,000 square feet of retail space and a 50,000-square-foot performing arts center.
It has the potential of being a big economic driver for Suitland.
“Over the last 20 years, there have been many attempts to create the right development for Suitland, and we are finally making it happen,” said Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker.
“This new Town Square at Suitland Federal Center will be the spark that will ignite the Suitland community that residents have been longing for. I have been telling folks to ‘buy Suitland’ for the last few years and this project will be the foundation of what we hope will be the rebirth of Suitland,” he said.
Prince George’s County says the economic impact of the project will be more than $400 million in construction costs and will create 1,200 construction jobs.
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“This new Town Square at Suitland Federal Center will be the spark that will ignite the Suitland community that residents have been longing for,” said Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker. (Courtesy Prince George’s County)
The Town Square at Suitland Federal Center project recently won an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for Master Planning and Landscaping, and is considered a premier example of sustainable master planning.
Phase one of the project will include construction, set to begin in early 2018, of for-sale town houses by Reston, Virginia-based homebuilder NVR and a senior apartment building by developer Mission First.
Phase two, scheduled for 2020, will include the addition of 540 apartments.
Phase three will include the retail space and performing arts center.
Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground | WTOP