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Virginia Square, Virginia
Virginia Square Real Estate
Virginia Square, one of Arlington’s urban villages, is centered at the Virginia Square Metro stop. Although Virginia Square does not have the hectic nightlife of its neighbor, Clarendon, it shares similar attributes to other urban villages: a defined residential community, a 9-5 working center, an educational and cultural locus and a neighborhood with some history. In 2008, the American Planning Association named Virginia Square, along with Clarendon, Rosslyn and Ballston, as one of ten Great Streets in the U.S.
The Virginia Square name derived from the name of the Virginia Square Shopping Center, now the location of a Giant Supermarket. The area hosts a mix of older and new businesses. Such venerable institutions as Mario’s Pizza and Casual Adventure have been community fixtures for over 50 and 45 years, respectively. El Pollo Rico, known for its great rotisserie chicken, had been a neighborhood fixture since 1988.
That said, the area has experienced substantial redevelopment in the more recent past. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) opened its campus just across the street from the Metro station. In 1996, the Arlington campus of George Mason University began a significant expansion and renovation project which carries forward to the present day. The campus includes its Law School. Several mid and high rise apartment and condo buildings have been constructed in the past ten years along the major arterial routes, Wilson Boulevard and Fairfax Drive. The community also is home to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the main branch of the Arlington Public Library.
When you move a few blocks away from the Metro line, Virginia Square evolves into a residential neighborhood comprised primarily of single family homes with grassy front yards. These homes are an eclectic mix of architectural styles-Colonial, frame cottages and farmhouses, brick colonials and ramblers and more recent Craftsman styles homes. By and large, homes range in size from 1200-5000 square feet. As in many Arlington neighborhoods, some of the older and more modest homes have been demolished and replaced by new homes that are larger, more modern and respond to the requirements of the many affluent professionals who prize the neighborhood’s convenience and proximity to Washington DC and other northern VA employment centers.
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