As the City of Alexandria sets about

As the City of Alexandria sets about hiring a consultant to guide the redevelopment of its Braddock Street Metro station area, it is already well-armed with information and ideas, thanks to preliminary consultations by Virginia Tech adjunct professor of urban affairs Louis Colombo and the eight graduate students in his masters studio in urban planning. Joint underwriting by the university and the city enabled Colombo’s students to partner with designer Mike Watkins of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. as they addressed the full spectrum of planning and design issues involved in re-imagining the neighborhood of about four thousand residents as a workable, walkable TOD.