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From YouTube: Realize Rosslyn
Description
In this story, we head down to Rosslyn, which is just starting to plan its own extreme makeover. "Realize Rosslyn" is an intense community planning process aimed at realizing the transformation of Rosslyn from a 1960's auto-centric area into a vibrant and distinctive urban place featuring great housing, retail and office space. The results of this effort will provide a refined community vision to help Rosslyn reach its full potential, while ensuring the voices across Arlington are part of this conversation. In five years, you may see a very different Rosslyn from the one we see today.
To find out more and keep up with the Realize Rosslyn process go to: www.arlingtonva.us/Rosslyn
A
C
The
history
of
arlington's
development
is
crystal
city
and
roslyn
began.
First
and
roslyn
was
built
with
the
skywalks
connecting
buildings
above
ground
and
crystal
city
connecting
people
below
ground
in
the
underground,
and
we
have
since
for
decades
now
recognized
that
the
best
way
to
develop
an
urban
place
is
on
ground
level.
Bring
people
to
the
street,
activate
your
public
spaces
and
bringing
the
street
to
life.
D
So
right
now
we're
really
missing
a
sense
of
place.
The
rosalind
has
got
a
lot
of
challenges
with
lack
of
friendly
sidewalks
lack
of
retail.
It
has
a
lot
of
topography,
it
had
a
whole
sort
of
60s
dream
of
urban
autopia
with
cars
whizzing
around
on
on
freeways
above
the
streets,
and
so
it
we
have
a
lot
of
planning
challenges
that
we
need
to
correct
for
people
to
walk
and
enjoy
and
go
to
restaurants
and
and
circulate
through
this
place.
C
E
I
think
one
of
the
one
of
the
top
aspirations
that
we've
seen
emerging
to
date
through
the
planning
process
is,
is
to
make
rosin
a
place
to
go
to
and
not
through
today.
There's
a
lot
of
traffic
that
is
either
trying
to
get
to
the
key
bridge
or
to
trying
to
get
to
other
portions
of
the
district
that
are
passing
through
roslyn.
How
do
we
create
sort
of
a
public
place
in
roslyn
for
people
to
want
to
go
to
to
enjoy
to
shop
and
recreate?
E
There
are
some
public
open
spaces
in
the
area,
whether
it's
gateway
park
or
freedom
park,
and
they
are
there
today
as
an
asset,
but
they
could
be
so
much
greater,
whether
through
reprogramming
redesigning
or
partial
reconstruction.
So
I
think
that
is
a
huge
opportunity
to
provide
the
types
of
places
that
roslyn
needs
for
people
to
be
able
to
gather
and
just
enjoy
being
in
roslyn.
C
A
lot
of
the
neighbors
came
went
to
the
tops
of
a
few
of
the
buildings,
including
the
new
monday
properties,
building
that
is
within
a
few
months
of
being
completed,
and
once
you
get
to
the
top
of
that
building,
you
recognize
one
of
the
amazing
assets
of
roslyn
and
those
are
the
views.
When
you
see
beautiful
pictures
of
downtown
dc,
they
are
almost
always
from
our
side
of
the
river.
B
We
are
a
gateway
in
many
ways
to
the
metropolitan
area
and
the
district
of
columbia,
so
we
have
to
consider
how
that
skyline
shapes
the
view
and
the
identity
really
of
roslyn
but,
most
importantly,
how
it
contributes
in
terms
of
the
scale
and
mass
of
future
development
to
a
great
urban
scaled
environment
for
the
pedestrian
at
street
level.
This
is
the
notion
of
staggered
heights.
E
One
of
the
key
challenges
is
stitching
together
sort
of
change
on
a
site-by-site
or
block
by
block
basis.
It's
it's
not
a
clean
slate.
There
are
existing
buildings
that
have
been
built
over
the
past
two
to
three
decades,
and
how
do
you
insert
and
infill
new
development
in
buildings
that
are
more
modern
and
that
are
fit
today's
vision
of
what
we
want
to
see
for
roslyn
and
how
does
that
integrate
with
the
rest
of
the
existing
fabric?.