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| Reston Town Center |
| Fairfax County, Virginia |
 Reston Town Center is a downtown for the 21st century. It is widely recognized as the first and best example of a compact, mixed-use Town Center rather than just a high-density suburban center. It is not surprising that Reston Town Center commands the highest office rents in suburban Washington.Reston Town Center is a place where one can live, work, shop, and play in an environment where pedestrians are permitted but are not allowed to dominant the public realm. Drivers park once and then walk from place to place. Wells + Associates has conducted numerous traffic and parking  studies of Reston Town Center. These include: transportation impact studies of project plans for specific section of Reston Town Center; trip and parking generation studies; shared parking studies; parking garage operation studies; and parking management studies. These studies were conducted, over the years, for Reston Land Corporation, Westerra Reston, Terrabrook, Equity Office, Boston Properties, The JBG Companies, KSI Services, Brookfield Properties, MRP Realty, and others.Surveys conducted by Wells + Associates found that Reston Town Center generates 24 percent fewer AM peak hour trips and 10 percent fewer PM peak hour trips than would otherwise be estimated based on standard Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) trip generation rates for the individual uses. Reston Town Center requires 15 to 42 percent fewer parking spaces due to shared parking among its diverse mix of uses. |
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