Live, Work, Shop, Play and Ride Metro in Metro West

South of the Vienna-Fairfax-GMU Metro Station and north of Route 29, Pulte Homes has designed a new transit-oriented, mixed-use community that incorporates a variety of town homes, condominiums, apartments, convenience retail, commercial office, day care and public spaces. Metro West creates a new, pedestrian-friendly interface with the Vienna Metro Station, a town center plaza combining retail and public outdoor activity space, pedestrian connections to East Blake Lane Park and a new public use recreation/community center.

The project provides a long-anticipated, four-lane divided boulevard to connect Lee Highway with Vaden Drive Bridge to enhance circulation in and around the Metro Station area. The project anticipates acquisition of surplus land owned by WMATA that will allow the redesign and reconstruction of Saintsbury Drive east of Vaden Drive . The goal is improved pedestrian interface with the Metro Station for the new and existing communities.

The project includes a bridge crossing of Hatmark Branch and realignment of the City of Fairfax Connector Trail to improve pedestrian connections to the Metro Station and the project from communities west of the park.

Metro West implements the Policy Plan of Fairfax County by concentrating development next to a Metro station. It furthers the Smart Growth Principles of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. The Metro West plan results from a multi-year collaborative effort among neighborhood associations, a citizens’ working group, the Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and the Virginia Department of Transportation.

Participation and suggestions from these parties have given Metro West a vastly improved plan. The Smart Growth Alliance, in fact, has recognized the Metro West design as contributing land use, transportation and environmental advantages to Fairfax County and the Washington region.