From the 15th-floor condo where she has lived for nearly four decades, Amy Tozzi can see the future of Tysons Corner, the Washington suburb local signs now tout as “Tysons — America’s next great city.”
Just beyond a small grove of trees, low-slung office buildings soon will be torn down to make way for apartment buildings up to eight stories tall. In another direction, garden apartments are being bulldozed for new high-rises. And rising in the distance is the new 470-foot-tall corporate headquarters for Capital One, which will be the second-tallest structure in the region, behind the Washington Monument.
[All aboard! Metro’s new Silver Line rolls down the tracks for the first time.]
The building boom viewed from Tozzi’s balcony coincides with the opening two years ago of the first segment of Metro’s Silver Line, which included five stations, four in Tysons — Spring Hill, Greensboro, Tysons and McLean. And it is only the beginning of Fairfax County’s 40-year plan to transform the traffic-clogged suburb of sterile office parks into an urban hub where tens of thousands more people will work and live while getting around on foot, bike and public transit.
