Suburbia looks to grow up

suburbiaBy Eliot Brown | The Wall Street Journal

TYSONS CORNER, Va.—In the decades following World War II, this community just outside of Washington became a symbol of suburbia. Now, the hive of office parks, malls, parking lots and highways is becoming a symbol of a new trend taking hold in many suburbs around the country: urbanization.

Developers here are building about a half-dozen projects that don’t look like anything seen before in Tysons. A 22-story office tower, to be Tysons Corner’s tallest building, is set to open later this year on the site of a bulldozed Circuit City. Three high-rise apartment buildings are under construction near train stations being built as part of an extension of Washington’s Metro rail system. An urban-style Wal-Mart WMT -0.74%  —set in the base of an office building rather than a strip mall—opened in August.

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