Ashburn VA: A Suburb Of Small Cities
Most of Ashburn has developed within the last 10-15 years. The cool part about Ashburn is that it has been created with modern development tecniques in mind. You can easily reside in neighborhoods like Ashburn Village, Brambleton, or the Broadlands and never travel outside of your own neighborhood for most of your daily needs.
Ashburn is changing the lifestyle structure of Northern VA. Up until now most people have lived in Northern VA for a temporary season of life while they sought our great career opportunities from here to DC. This is changing.
Most Ashburn residents can now choose a grocery store on the basis of it being within 2 minutes of their home. Much further than this and they have 3 to pick from. This may be a small exaggeration, but there are grocery stores in almost Ashburn neighborhood. These aren’t stand alone stores, these stores are surrounded by great restaurants, auto services, movie stores, clothing shops, local pubs, etc…
A few to mention:
- Ryan Park Center
- Ashburn Village
- Brambleton Town Center
- Wegmans Shopping Center (actually in Sterling/ feels like Ashburn)
- Broadlands Shopping Center
- Ashburn Farm
- And the future Moorefield Station
What does this mean for you?
Convenience.
Northern VA is a faced paced area. When we have free time, it shouldn’t be spent a grocery store or an auto shop. So the closer to home the better. Then we can get back to what is really important…. Family and Friends.
Never travel outside of your own neighborhood for most of your daily needs…except WORK. Which explains the mind-numbing traffic gridlock in parts of Loudoun County each morning and evening. This is public planning at its worst — a series of communities with streets that serve only the community and end in cul-de-sacs, making it impossible to have effective public transportation; an inconsistent and unreliable taxpayer base of residential then retail than more residential then more retail with nary a thought given to developing office space that can serve businesses that consume far fewer public resources; a reliance on automobiles to run even the smallest errand. Of course we have only ourselves to blame in the end. We want fast and convenient shopping (the two-minute trip you mention) so we design for it.
Fanny I am in agreement concerning much of the traffic problem in the area. I am still up in the air concerning my opinion about the office space since there is a descent amount of office space localy that is currently vacant in Loudoun. About the developments, much of the roads here are paid for by the developers so this is also a tough call. Thanks a lot for the comment.
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