Over the last several years, the D.C. suburb has sought to replicate along the Pike the success it had in creating a string of
walkable neighborhoods around Metro Rail stations in the Rosslyn - Ballston corridor.
They include redesigning a suburban hospital campus to become a mixed - use town center; transforming the area
around a mall into an urbane downtown; re-imagining a typical commercial highway corridor as a string of
walkable neighborhoods connected by streetcar; and, finally, a plan to remake a large, sprawling city into one of the most
walkable, age - friendly cities in the country.