Which area will be king with the most sustainable development in the country in the future? A master plan with massive expansion's is being studied at RTP in the Raleigh/Durham MSA right now to make it a live/work/play develpment. The Life Science City expansion is currently under construction in the D.C. MSA. Who will be king over the next 10-15 years? Predict the following:
Design Build Out
Mobility (Mass transit)
Livability
Economic Vitality
Growth Potential
Diversity of complex meaning multiple uses (Hospital, University, Housing etc.)
Entertainment
Scenery
Weather
Research Triangle Park
Research Triangle Park is in the Raleigh/Durham MSA. RTP has over 39,000 employees working for 157 organizations. IBM has it's largest operation in the world in RTP with 11,000 employees. GlaxoSmithKline has a research and development center with 5,000 employees. Research Triangle Park has 16 miles of jogging and pedestrian trails. This includes a tree identification trail and a bluebird trail with 40 actively-monitored bird houses. It also has a 2-mile mountain biking trail, with expansion underway in 2011. There are 4 softball fields with 10 grass and 3 sand volleyball courts. RTP is serviced by a bus route.
Life Science City
Science City is in the D.C. MSA. The expansion broke ground last year. It is the first of it's kind in the United States. Science cities exist around the world but none have been built in the U.S. mainly because of the usual American sprawling office parks. The "Science City" will have 17.5 million sq. feet of development, 52,500 jobs, 9,000 residential units, 4 light rail stops, and 4 BRT routes.
"Home to a major hospital, academic institutions, and private biotechnology companies, the Life Sciences City (LSC) serves as a premier location for the largest concentration in the U.S. of advanced technology companies. Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Johns Hopkins University-Montgomery County Campus (JHU-MCC), the Universities at Shady Grove, and biotechnology companies such as Human Genome Sciences, BioReliance, and the J. Craig Venter Institute are all located in the Life Sciences City. The federal government’s General Services Administration recently selected the JHU-MCC site for the National Cancer Institute’s consolidated headquarters."
Science City is in the middle left hand side of the map where all the Light Rail/BRT transit lines meet
Most recent 2011 Transit map (Blue = Light Rail, Other Colors = BRT)
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