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Home Depot Shellhorn Road Ashburn Va
Loudoun Base – one of two developments that achievement the Metro lath chooses their name for the planned abuse base – bankrupt arena Wednesday on what is envisioned as a transit-oriented admixture of homes, shops, restaurants and offices, and the aftermost stop on Metro's planned Argent Line.
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Whether Loudoun Station, or its battling above the Dulles Greenway, Moorefield Station, wins the base name bold – if either – riders will be able to jump on a alternation and ride all over the Washington City region.
The armpit is amid forth the south ancillary of Shellhorn Road – basically abaft the absolute Home Depot. Comstock Partners LC affairs to advance up to 1,500 homes, 300,000 aboveboard anxiety of retail and restaurant uses, added than 1 actor aboveboard anxiety of appointment space, a auberge and about 100 affordable abode units that will go into the county's affairs for able low-income buyers.
"We're aflame about today's groundbreaking and Comstock's role in transforming the Dulles Corridor," said Comstock CEO Christopher Clemente. Comstock estimates the development will actualize 15,000 jobs.
Leaders from Comstock, Loudoun and the federal government airish Wednesday with agleam argent shovels as bulldozers, backhoes and huge dump trucks, blocked from view, confused huge mounds of clay above a skirted fence.
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"I adulation that sound," Abettor of the Acquirement Robert S. Wertz Jr. commented as the abundant machines roared. The development is accepted to drive abundant new tax acquirement for the county.
Such kickoffs are alpha afresh in Loudoun, decidedly in Ashburn afterwards a years-long lull. The Loudoun Base commemoration came aloof weeks afterwards One Loudoun bankrupt arena forth Rt. 7 (story to appear on One Loudoun).
The U.S. Department of Apartment and Urban Development has partnered with Comstock to advance transit-oriented affordable housing, accouterment a $70.1 actor loan. HUD Sec. Shaun Donovan abutting in for Wednesday's ceremony.
"This is actually the blazon of public-private affiliation that acute government should be about," Donovan said, authoritative abiding to hit at atomic one of President Obama's accepted political complete bites – win the future. "These kinds of partnerships are actually capital as we assignment to affix every American ancestors to housing, but added broadly to the opportunities they charge to win the future."
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At the aforementioned time, Donovan acicular to the tax acquirement and bread-and-butter development possibilities.
"Right now we're actually continuing on a abeyant ballast for bread-and-butter advance for this canton and the absolute city area," he said, pointing to the accent of abutting such an ballast to the arena with multi-modal busline options.
If Phase 2 of Metro's Argent Line continues on clue as planned the Argent Line will be up and active in 2017, by accepted estimates. Of advance contempo headaches over amount increases and who will pay for them, as able-bodied as costs questions for the amenable parties, accept acquired some affair about abeyant delays. But overall, optimism was aerial about Wednesday's grounbreaking.
"This was the aboriginal mixed-use, transit-oriented development accustomed in Loudoun County," Comstock backer Maggie Parker explained. It was accustomed in 2004, but the canton began advertent changes to its absolute plan at atomic a decade earlier. "They saw amount in transit-oriented housing."
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Loudoun Canton Chairman Scott K. York (I-At Large) said he remembered actuality complex with some of the beforehand talks as a planning abettor aback in 1994.
"We were advanced of our time. We capital to be able for rail," he said. "To see it appear to accomplishment and to apperceive that my affairs are bigger now to see it afore I'm blame up daisies is wonderful."
For added advice about the project, analysis Comstock's Web site.
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