Metro to Pull In $25m for Ballston Property
‘The 10B’
courtesy of ‘Aaron Webb’
The Metro board is expected to approve the sale of the Ballston bus garage property for $25 million at their 9/24 meeting. At just over 4 acres, it will become part of the property that will be home to the new DARPA building. Check out the past WLDC article about the building here. Talk about a way to make some quick cash! Does this mean no fare increases for a few years? Hah. Right.
This story hits pretty close to home for me – I live across the street from the Ballston Metro bus garage. Or at least what used to be the Metro bus garage. In March, all of the buses moved out to a facility in Fairfax and it has sat as an abandoned parking lot for the last 6 months. It even looks a little more like a prison playground or something. But I do find it oddly touching that someone spray painted the years of operation of the garage on the side of it; nearly 50 years of memories happened at that little site. RIP Ballston Metro bus garage. RIP.
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One Response to “Metro to Pull In $25m for Ballston Property”
September 10th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Wow, I’m surprised it took this long for that area to redevelop! It always seemed so out of place, with the Ballston Mall directly across the street and the Metro station just a few blocks away. Guess that means the end for the Super Pollo and Enterprise too, huh?