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Wheaton, Navy Yard and Merrifield: Major projects to keep your eye on We selected three locations: one in the District, Maryland and Virginia. Each of them is at a different stage in the planning and development process. And each represents a different twist on the same vision: to create a more attractive place to live where there could also be a more pleasant commute.
Wheaton is constructing additional retail and housing space in the area surrounding the Metro station.
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Michelle Yerkin strolls along Reedie Drive with two of her four children in Wheaton. Yerkin's family bought a house near the Metro station last year. Yerkin works for the State Department and bought in Wheaton because of walkability, affordability and the sense that the area is expanding.
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The construction site of a Safeway and other retail can be seen from Fern Street near the Wheaton Metro station.
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Wheaton residents Sabato Marigliano, Karen Johnson and Phil Capannelli relax and socialize on a bench in their Wheaton neighborhood within a couple blocks of the Metro.
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Photographs display menu items offered at a Chinese restaurant in Wheaton. The city has a variety of ethnic restaurants within close proximity to the Metro.
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Passengers fill buses near the Wheaton station.
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Wheaton was once home to one of the region’s oldest Safeway stores, but that is being replaced and upgraded, accompanied by new apartments. Last November, construction crews began to demolish the outdated store and are building a 58,000-square-foot facility expected to open in late 2013.
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The county has proposed a $40 million structure over the 14 bus stops that swamp the Metro station’s western entrance.
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Travis Ellis, who works at Living Classrooms, along the riverfront, enjoys lunch and the view in Southeast Washington. In the District’s ballpark neighborhood, developers started with a clean slate, creating a neighborhood from nearly nothing. New residents are just now starting to see the beginnings of neighborhood amenities.
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Co-workers Jim Cary and Tanya Robinson relax in the Yards Park, which they had just discovered for the first time.
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Carol Buckley strolls through the Yards Park with her daughter, Willa, 8 months. They live a few blocks away and enjoy an area that is starting to come into its own.
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Gail-Renee Gordon and her 3-year-old teacup terrier Giovanni, who live near Nationals Stadium, finish a walk in the Southeast neighborhood. She works on K Street and used to live in the outer suburbs but the hated the commute. Now she has an easy one.
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When the weather is nice the Steckler family, from left, David, Grace, Benjamin, 3, Olivia, 6 (and not pictured Pearl, 5) of Capitol Hill visit the Yards Park along the Anacostia with a picnic.
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New places to live are springing up in the area around Nationals Park, including rowhouses at Fourth and L streets. Next year, Harris Teeter will open a grocery store at Fourth and M streets, with 220 apartments on top.
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Work continues on the Boilermaker Shops building in Southeast. This 1919 Navy Yard building at Third and Tingey will be home to a new brewery from the Churchkey/Birch and Barley team, plus Austin Grill Express, Buzz Bakery, BRB (Be Right Burger), Huey’s 24/7 Diner and Willie’s Brew & ’Que.
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The sun sets along M Street SE. With government and private-sector firms as well as churches and now apartments and condos, the area around Nationals Park is beginning to feel more like a neighborhood.
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Along the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail in front of the Navy Yard, the USS Barry is open for public tours. This is one of the unique features around the stadium.
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Nearly 3,600 people live in the neighborhood today. But that’s still a long way from the full vision for a neighborhood where forecasters expect 8,100 housing units to be built in the next 20 years.
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The Yards Park bridge is reflected in a wading pool that is popular with children in the summer.
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“It’s a wonderful place to hang out by the river,” said Andrew Weber. Weber, 35, was an early pioneer of the neighborhood in 2006 when he moved into the Capitol Hill Tower coop (then new), from an apartment in the Van Ness neighborhood in Northwest.
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Despite being one of the most congested points in Fairfax County, the Merrifield neighborhood still attracts a mix of residents, office workers and shoppers, with its proximity to the Beltway and the Dunn Loring-Merrifield Metro station.
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Contractors Tim Griffis, left, and Jason Glaze look over plans on the second floor of an old theater under construction at Mosaic District — once called Merrifield Town Center — a Metro station-based mixed site of retail stores, restaurants, hotel, office and residential slated to open in fall 2012.
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At the Mosaic District, a 531-unit apartment building by AvalonBay and 112 townhouses from home builder EYA are under construction, with the townhouses starting at $597,000.
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Workers perch on the side of the Hotel Sierra in the Mosaic District.
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Plans laid long ago to remake Merrifield into a more walkable corridor are taking shape, with some new developments around the Metro station and much more on the way.
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Top soil is reclaimed on site at Mosaic District.
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The future retail space for Neiman Marcus Last Call Studio at Mosaic District, a Metro station-based mixed site of retail stores, restaurants, hotel, office and residences slated to open in fall 2012.
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A Target store and a MOM’s Organic Market head the list of stores under construction, providing residents of the new development with basic needs. But there is also a long lineup of restaurants and shops coming. D.C. chefs Jeff and Barbara Black will open Black’s Bar & Kitchen, and they will be joined by Matchbox Pizza, Dolcezza gelato, Red Apron Butchery, Taylor Gourmet and Greek fare from Cava Mezze.
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