Alexandria is currently considering plans for a significant redevelopment of its waterfront that would include a new hotel, restaurants, and retail:
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Fifteen years ago Rosslyn was considering a large waterfront development proposed by Arthur Cotton Moore that would have included a six-story elevator to connect from Rosslyn's business district to the waterfront. This would have also offered water taxi to Washington Harbour, which was also designed by Moore. Before any of you lament that this wasn't built, it would have also included 15,000 parking spaces.
Waterfront Complex Would Link Va., D.C.
Lan Nguyen
3/14/96
Washington Post
"The architect of the Washington Harbour is promoting an idea for a Rosslyn waterfront complex with a restaurant, boathouse and space for ferries, saying it could create a river link between Northern Virginia and Washington attractions such as the Kennedy Center and Georgetown.
Washington architect Arthur Cotton Moore's idea calls for a covered pedestrian bridge from a Rosslyn office building to a six-story elevator that would lower people to the Rosslyn waterfront development. By then using ferries to cross the Potomac River, Moore said, people could park in one of the 15,000 spaces in Rosslyn, easing congestion in the District.
"They can take the ferry, go to the Kennedy Center for dinner and a show, have drinks afterward at Washington Harbour and come back," he said. "There is a natural interconnection. Every place that's had this, like Hong Kong, it's been a wonderful feature..."