REAL ESTATE


Sol Glasner, president and CEO of Tysons Partnership, says Tysons is morphing into a walkable minicity that’s expected to be home to 100,000 residents by 2050.


Transforming Tysons


Will it become America’s next great city? by Richard Foster


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VirginiaBusiness.com 42 MAY 2018 I


n 1950, Tysons Corner was little more than a mom- and-pop general store


at the intersection of state Routes 7 and 123 surrounded by farms with peach orchards and wheat fields. By 2050, a rechristened


Tysons is expected to be a bus- tling, cosmopolitan metropolis of more than 100,000 resi-


dents living, working and play- ing beneath an urban skyline of spires and towers. “Our mantra is … ‘Building


America’s Next Great City,’ and we really do believe that. It is a city on the rise. That’s what we’re aiming for, and it has all the ingredients for becoming exactly that,” says Sol Glasner, president and CEO of Tysons


Partnership, a nonprofit asso- ciation of stakeholders promot- ing growth in Tysons. Fairfax County created its


Tysons Comprehensive Plan in 2010, laying out a 50-year vision for transforming the community into a full-fledged city, replete with skyscrapers and high-density residential areas. Ever since then, Tysons


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