Crystal City - Arlington - Virginia - 4K Neighborhood Drive
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- Morning drive around the Crystal City area of Arlington, Virginia, future home of Amazon HQ2. Also includes some parts of the neighboring Pentagon City.
Filmed: November 2020
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From Wikipedia:
Crystal City is an urban neighborhood in the southeastern corner of Arlington County, Virginia, south of downtown Washington, D.C. Due to its extensive integration of office buildings and residential high-rise buildings using underground corridors, travel between stores, offices, and residences is possible without going above ground; thus, a large part of Crystal City is an underground city.
Crystal City includes offices of numerous defense contractors, the United States Department of Labor, the United States Marshals Service and many satellite offices for The Pentagon. It is also the location of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Crystal City is centered along a stretch of Richmond Highway (U.S. 1), just south of The Pentagon, just east of Pentagon City, and within walking distance to the west of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Characterized as one of many "urban villages" by Arlington County, Crystal City is almost exclusively populated by high-rise apartment buildings, corporate offices, hotels, and numerous shops and restaurants. There is also an extensive network of underground shopping areas and connecting corridors beneath Crystal City.
Crystal City has a station on the Washington Metro Blue and Yellow Lines, and another on the Virginia Railway Express commuter train system.
The layout of Crystal City was considered avant-garde at the time of construction, with superblocks bounded by arterial and circulating roads, and with pedestrian traffic and the businesses serving it relocated from the streets to the pedestrian tunnels. However, Crystal City has since been redesigned to give it a more traditional, urban feel, with restaurants at street level, and with traffic patterns changed to make streets like Crystal Drive function as city streets, rather than as circulating roads.
It is home to the United States Marshals Service and numerous Department of Defense offices. It also has offices of numerous defense contractors, the Environmental Protection Agency, the General Services Administration, and many satellite offices for The Pentagon, especially during the Pentagon Renovation Program. Pentagon offices in Crystal City include the headquarters of the Warrior Transition Command and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
At one time US Airways had its headquarters in Crystal Park Four in Crystal City. After US Airways merged with America West Airlines in 2005, the combined company closed the Virginia headquarters and moved the management to Tempe, Arizona, in Greater Phoenix. Today, the Crystal City neighborhood is also home to headquarters for Lidl, Lyft, Bloomberg BNA and others.
Crystal City is home to several associations and technology companies, including Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Diabetes Association, American Public Power Association, PBS, and Consumer Technology Association and more.
On November 13, 2018, Amazon.com announced that Arlington's Crystal City neighborhood would be the location of one of two campuses for its Amazon HQ2, with the other campus planned for Long Island City in Queens, New York City. Both campuses would have 25,000 workers. In Amazon's announcement, a joint press release was presented by the Northern Virginia bidders that Amazon's HQ2 neighborhood location would be jointly marketed as "National Landing", which encompasses not only Crystal City but also Pentagon City and Potomac Yard. In February 2019, Amazon decided to cancel its plans for the Queens location for HQ2 and instead focus exclusively on the Crystal City/Pentagon City site. Construction is currently ongoing.
I Been To Arlington, Virginia With My Sister!! My Two Brother's And A Family Good Friend!! I Must Say Arlington, Crystal City. And Pentagon City Are Beautiful.. I Want To Go Back One Day ⭐.
my dad works here, i used to go to his work alot and on his break we would walk around the area.
Ive lived in arlington forever so idk why I wanted to see a drive through of crystal city but hey here we are
Last visit to DC was years ago and I stayed at a hotel in Crystal City. As I used METRORAIL extensively I never explored Crystal City itself. Thanks for sharing! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
CCity and Arlington in general: Low taxes, high rent/house prices. Short train ride to all the attractions in DC. Very nice, but you need a reasonably good job to be able to afford the apartment/home prices, now even more than before when I lived there in the 90's and early 2000's. Wish I had something to show for 17 years of high rental payments. Not complaining,
but if you lose your job any reason, the rent/mortgage payments keep coming due, so if you decide to live there, keep a nice stash of money available to get you through, if need be.
Love your vids!!
Would like to see driving from Falls Church to McLean. Moved from McLean over 30 years ago.
Thanks. Planning to be in the DC Area soon. What route do you recommend between those two towns?
Always wanted to visit this place, thanks for the tour 👏🏾👍🏾
Any time!
thanks for the drive.
No problem 👍
Been there for 3 years, really missed it
So what are you saying you moving me up to Arlington Virginia
Thank you for this. im bout to start delivering food here. Waiting on my scooter
Going to stay near Reagan next month and want to visit retro Crystal City Mall while I’m there. I’m from Virginia Beach, but have to admit, I really like Arlington.
There’s a lot to do here.
I miss Arlington
Nice driving
Wow I lived up the street across from Potomac yard. I’d walk to the cold stone in crystal city just for fun
Why no walking people?
It's beautiful
Going from Falls Church I would take Rt. 7 (Broad Street) to Haycock Rd. Turn right on Haycock to Westmoreland St. Turn left on Westmoreland to Chain Bridge Rd. Turn right on Chain Bridge and drive thru downtown McLean. Maybe turn right on Old Dominion Dr. and go all the way to Lee Hwy.
Thanks for responding back. You do a great job. I'll be watching out for this. Take care and happy motoring!
1:16 what was that noise
It was from driving over those metal plates on the road.
Bien diferente desde hace 20 años que no voy para ahi
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The guy from earlier From the Richmond video was Like “Arlington is wayyy bigger”
This is only 1 of the 6 urban neighborhoods of arlington. Rosslyn is way bigger.
Because it is. 🤷🏻♂️
They’re literally the same in size when it comes to population lol. Arlington is 233k and Richmond 232k. And when it comes to how large they are Richmond is bigger at 62.57mi^2 and Arlington is only 26mi^2.
No people
Where are all the people
Prolly cuz covid
Are you want me to go with you or something what
How's parking? Any free parking?
Beleive it or not this isn't a city its an urban county I still consider it a city though
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Say something no body talk
I’ve never seen or met a black person from Arlington 🤷🏾♂️
Arlington is very diverse though
Did you see that one black man in the video walking in the street?
@@Dallas3212 no but that’s amazing
i need money to move to here am from Africa 🤕