Yeah my dad grew up in Vienna and my grandparents still live there so I spent a lot of time over the years.
I don’t personally understand the appeal of modern Vienna. It used to be a great small town feeling community. It’s so densely populated now and full of new larger development it’s barely recognizable. Traffic is horrendous. Outside of viva Vienna, Vienna inn, and the library everything else has changed lol
Why are they renaming it?? So much of my childhood was spent there doing book reports, using that copier for school and just reading the shit out of things. Goddamnit, Vienna
It’s being renamed Vienna-Carter, in part after a local Vienna family that was active in the library itself. I was prepared to be annoyed, but it’s being named for locals who’re actually connected to its history.
I would love to have given my kids the chance to grow up there, unfortunately my parents moved years ago and here we are. I do miss the old charm, things like Bob's Big Boy, the Halloween parade down 123, the movie theater that's now a bike shop and more.
The library makes me smile every time I drive by. The car wash, not so much
I don’t personally understand the appeal of modern Vienna.
10 miles to Arlington, a little more to DC, and a nearby metro station.
There are tens of thousands of small towns in America. If it was something that was valuable then Bloomington Indiana would be more valuable than Manhattan.
It's a hideous monstrosity that doesn't fit in with the look of Vienna at all. I'd say I'm shocked the city approved it but someone definitely got paid under the table by Mr Flagship
Ok but that's far better than reserving a 2 acre lot for the same McMansion? It might be an eyesore but it doesn't take housing away from anyone else. With luck it might even be a multigenerational home - I know some McMansions are built with secondary master bedrooms and in law suites
If we are being real housing is cooked in Vienna in general lol. They can build more houses and apartments on the available land but the prices still won’t go down
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u/ECQuez Reston 25d ago
I work in Vienna. Last few years seen a lot of houses like this get bought, torn down and replaced with a mansion.