Alexandria (City) vying to get NSF to move their headquarters to Carlyle (apartment, lease)

[GustavoFring]

Originally Posted by phrekyos

Hoffman Center is quite a trek, and there's nothing much there. Ruby Tuesday? Blech.

Quite a trek from where? It's 2-3 blocks from the center of the Carlyle... (USPTO). Ruby Tuesdays is literally the worst option in there, it has Teds, Deliahs, some mexican restaurant that isn't half bad, and a few other small quick places. Everywhere in Carlyle is literally a 5 minute walk to everywhere else in Carlyle.

The only thing inconvenient in the entire Carlyle area is that odd garden style apartment complex next to the sewage plant that doesn't blend in or is attached to anything, yet is somehow considered a part of Carlyle. I'm guessing the management company did some creative marketing with that..

[phrekyos]

Originally Posted by GustavoFring

Quite a trek from where? It's 2-3 blocks from the center of the Carlyle... (USPTO). Ruby Tuesdays is literally the worst option in there, it has Teds, Deliahs, some mexican restaurant that isn't half bad, and a few other small quick places. Everywhere in Carlyle is literally a 5 minute walk to everywhere else in Carlyle.

The only thing inconvenient in the entire Carlyle area is that odd garden style apartment complex next to the sewage plant that doesn't blend in or is attached to anything, yet is somehow considered a part of Carlyle. I'm guessing the management company did some creative marketing with that..

They are not nearly that close, stop exaggerating. Google Maps calculates it as 11 minutes from Dulany St, and that's being generous.

And there are no garden-style apartments here, I don't know what you're talking about there.

[GustavoFring]

Originally Posted by phrekyos

They are not nearly that close, stop exaggerating. Google Maps calculates it as 11 minutes from Dulany St, and that's being generous.

And there are no garden-style apartments here, I don't know what you're talking about there.

Considering I walk the area daily, I know I'm not exaggerating unless you move at a snail's pace.

Here are those out-of-place garden style apartments, wedged in between the jail and sewage plant:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=22314...22314&t=h&z=18

I think it's these: 800 Carlyle | Contemporary Apartment Homes

[phrekyos]

That's not garden style. That's a mid-rise. They're not next to either the ASA or the detention center. Jungle's Gym is on one side, and there's a cement place on the other. Look at the map. Then again, you seem to have trouble judging distances, so I guess I'll have to forgive you for that one.

[FindingZen]

Originally Posted by GustavoFring

Quite a trek from where? It's 2-3 blocks from the center of the Carlyle... (USPTO). Ruby Tuesdays is literally the worst option in there, it has Teds, Deliahs, some mexican restaurant that isn't half bad, and a few other small quick places. Everywhere in Carlyle is literally a 5 minute walk to everywhere else in Carlyle.

^What s/he said.

I believe the Mexican restaurant is called San Antonio Bar & Grill.

[FindingZen]

Originally Posted by phrekyos

They are not nearly that close, stop exaggerating. Google Maps calculates it as 11 minutes from Dulany St, and that's being generous.

11 minutes is a quick walk to me. The old Dash lunch loop bus (RIP) would probably take that long just getting to King and Washington Streets - the "center" of Old Town - from the Carlyle area.

I would imagine that the restaurants at Hoffman offer lunch specials that are served up quickly to accommodate those taking roughly 20 minutes of their lunch hour to walk to and from there.

[GustavoFring]

Originally Posted by phrekyos

That's not garden style. That's a mid-rise. They're not next to either the ASA or the detention center. Jungle's Gym is on one side, and there's a cement place on the other. Look at the map. Then again, you seem to have trouble judging distances, so I guess I'll have to forgive you for that one.

3-5 stories are typically considered garden style, but if you want to say it's a midrise, fine. The point is, it's not really a part of the Carlyle development, and is the only thing truly (sort of) inconvenient to anything else. If I lived there, I could see complaining about the walk to some places like the metro or the rest of old town, but anywhere in the actual Carlyle is quite convenient.

[phrekyos]

Garden style apartments do not have internal hallways, 800 Carlyle does.

Now, you DO realize that the place in the OP (Carlyle Plaza One/Two), if and when it's ever built, will be DIRECTLY to the north of 800 Carlyle, right? Literally right next to it, across the street. So if you think that spot is inconvenient, then you're saying the same about where they're proposing to move the NSF.

[GustavoFring]

I was unaware there were interior hallways. Good for them.

NSF proposal is to be in the parking lot in front of the Hoffman movie theater (check my original link for renderings). That would be Carlyle Place Two. Carlyle Place One would be built in that empty lot between 800 carlyle and the rest of Carlyle. By building that, and leveling that warehouse shopping center and building more highrises (the ultimate goal), then 800 would be linked to the rest of the community. As it is now, it's sort of out there by itself, but they likely have some sort of shuttle service to the metro, Carlyle and the rest of Old Town one could take advantage of.

[pcity]

Originally Posted by Tone509

Not to mention that there are some slightly more sophisticated sit-down options just across the way at the Hoffman Center on Eisenhower Ave.

And there is now a sushi place and a Thai place in Carlyle, and a Chinese place and a Mediterranean place across Eisenhower. And there's always been a Chinese pay-by-the-pound place in Carlyle as well as an Italian/pizza place across Duke.

There are still way too many vacant retail slots in the neighborhood, but it is improving.