Reston Town Center
Reston is a community 15 miles from Washington, DC, first planned in 1964. In 1990, Sasaki provided landscape architecture for the first phase of Reston Town Center in association with RTKL. The center set the standard for pedestrian-oriented town centers at the heart of many new communities that followed in the United States. Subsequently, Sasaki provided planning and landscape architecture for additional phases of development which continue to today. The challenge with the work has been to make a flexible plan for a new urban environment that creates value and evolves over time, accommodating higher densities and an increasingly mixed-use program. Sasaki’s focus on place-making in the design of the urban landscape and in the master plans for subsequent phases creates a uniquely desirable place that now serves as the downtown for Northern Virginia. Reston’s unequivocal success illustrates the value that can be created in a high-density, mixed-use, and distinctly urban environment. Retail, office, hotel, and restaurant space lease at a rate 20% higher than the same Class A uses in other nearby areas.
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