In 2017, DAVID RUBIN Land Collective proudly began a collaboration with developer JBG Smith on a comprehensive landscape master plan to revitalize Arlington County Virginia’s Crystal City, now known as the National Landing area, through a strategic, all-encompassing approach to development and a redefinition of the site’s connective tissue.
The focused plan identified three distinct neighborhoods, unified via the streetscape of Crystal Drive, and includes new residential, office, and retail developments as well as improvements to the surrounding landscape. Simultaneous to the Landscape Master Plan, Land Collective assisted JBG Smith in an effort to conceptualize greater connectivity between adjacent but physically separate Reagan National Airport and National Landing’s future urban landscape. Essential infrastructure updates will make the area more accessible, beginning with the construction of additional entrances to the Metro station at Crystal City and the prospect of a connector land bridge between National Landing and Reagan National, essentially redefining the landscape as we know it.
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