Ninety million square feet. That’s the number of zoned office and industrial square footage that is yet to be built in Loudoun.
Robyn Bailey, manager of business infrastructure with Loudoun County’s Department of Economic Development, gave a presentation to a crowd of nearly 50 at the Economic Development Commission meeting April 2 on how those square feet are divided. From 1999 to 2009, Loudoun saw 23.6 million square feet of office space and industrial space built.
Here’s a look at what’s in store for Loudoun’s future.
Currently, 5,100 vacant acres line six corridors: U.S. 50, Route 267 (Dulles Greenway), Route 606, Route 7, Route 28 and Route 25 (Waxpool Road).
The U.S. 50 corridor, Bailey said, is a mixed-use business district that has a lot of small parcels – totaling 10 million square feet—that need to be consolidated and rezoned. She called in an “emerging corridor.”
The Route 267 corridor is the future home of the Metro stops. The corridor has 23.5 million square feet that has yet to be built.
“This should not be developed now,” Bailey said. “We want it to come with rail so we can capitalize and get the highest value.”
Developing the corridor now, she added, would mean under-developing it.
The Route 606 corridor has 14 million square feet and is in area that calls for high-end industrial development, Bailey said.
Bailey grouped the Route 7, Route 28 and Route 25 (Waxpool Road) together. The corridors total the remaining 38 million square feet.
“We are a variety of things,” Bailey asked. “But, why aren’t we class A? I don’t know.”
Class A office space is the highest caliber of corporate office space, close to hotels and restaurants.
Bailey added that the county needs to attract high-value, sustainable industries from around the world and to use Washington Dulles International Airport as the attraction.
“The reality is we’re global,” she said. “We’re competing on a global platform. We have to think from the outside in now.”
Tidbits from the meeting The Department of Economic Development will no longer provide breakfast at its morning meetings. The savings, estimated to be around $3,000, will be put toward the $5,000 needed to enhance the department’s Web site.
Lockheed Martin is donating $20,000 to the county’s Teacher in Industry Project, an initiative by Rehau and Loudoun County Public Schools.
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Anon, Watch when Kincora gets turned down, and that prime land is built out with more misplaced data and industrial. Just like what has been built at the ashburn metro front entrance already. And rt 28 does not get rezoned correctly. Just like Miller wanted to spend 20 to 40 million of tax payer money to help a developer buddy of his at the 606 metro. And if you believe the developer that moving that metro would cost hardly anything, think again it is a government project basically and cost go thru the roof on projects like that when changed. And mixed use needs URBAN residential to keep it alive. Remember the flight from our cities many years ago and how the cities were dead at night. Urban residential few kids, suburban residential many many kids. Further McGimsey hates kincora and does not want to rezone rt 28 correctly. Her planning commissioner is a architect to make McGimsey look good on those and many other stupid decisions that will hurt Class A commercial. You can’t fill up prime land with industrial and data and expect Class A to be built. Keep data and industrial on rt 606 and hidden NOT at our front doors like the Ashburn metro. Read the article Anon especially this quote “We are a variety of things,” Bailey asked. “But, why aren’t we class A? I don’t know.”
I will tell you why, class A is looking for class developments not the junked up visual look of 28 and sitting not next to the visually ugly data and industrial. And mixed use needs URBAN RESIDENTIAL which means few kids not suburban residential which means many kids.
Tysons is redoing their entire area and is and going to tear down what we are building brand new. You will not see any industrial or data in your face at tysons metros unlike our asburn metro which is already ruined that front door with visually disturbing mis-placed data.
And miller’s stupid decision which the bos approved to increase the density of fairfield which will be a kid magnet and proffers of two traffic choking lights and a widen road to no where. That road should of curved into shellhorn where the traffic is eventually going to go to the metro not to nowhere as now planned. Anon mark my words about McGimsey’s planning commissioner he will only rubber stamp McGimseys poor ideas about class A development. Like increasing the desity of Lerners town center with mix use and so far no decent proffers like Kincora. At the very least lerner should build a interchange at rt 7 and the cascades. A good small mix use is the villages of Leesburg which has Urban residential which means few kids and a interchange on rt. “”“”“Urban residential means few kids Suburban residential means many kids”“”“”“”“” And anon we will see who is the idiot in the future as this current Planning Commission continues to follow what is dictated to them by their boss’s the BOS. Doctors bury their mistakes, but everyone must visually suffer by the architects and designers and planners mistakes.
LeeJ, you’re an idiot. You’re really blaming McGimsey’s planning commissioner, who has been on duty for a couple months, for the state of planning in this county? Please take your meds before commenting again.
This article at first is trying to put a good light on ED. But this really says it all.
““We are a variety of things,” Bailey asked. “But, why aren’t we class A? I don’t know.”
We are filling prime land with data and industrial in the wrong places, they should be mostly limited to the 606 corridor. Yet in that corridor we have a Toll Bro housing development and then data at the front door of the ashburn metro. What fools are planning this county???? It is almost criminal what has happened over the last 20 years. We need real pros planning this county not the amateurs on our planning commission. Just because you are a architect who designs mostly ugly Costco’s such as McGimseys does not mean you are a good planner. Something is very wrong with the planning in this county?? and Tyson’s is going forward and we a building what tyson’s is tearing down.
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