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Pentagon City, Virginia

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Washington Tower, a signature building of the Pentagon City neighborhood.

Pentagon City is a neighborhood (also called an "urban village") located in the southeast portion of Arlington County, Virginia, near The Pentagon and Arlington Cemetery. The community of residential, office, and retail complexes is a major tourist stop due to its proximity to Washington, D.C.; Pentagon City is less than a mile from the Potomac River, which separates the Commonwealth of Virginia from Washington, D.C. It is conveniently location on the Yellow and Blue Lines of the Washington Metro, and the Pentagon City Metro station is one of the busiest in the metrorail system during peak and off-peak hours.

The Pentagon, whose parking lots span both sides of nearby Shirley Memorial Highway (I-395), is located just a couple of blocks away. The neighborhood of Crystal City borders Pentagon City to the east along S. Eads Street, and separates Pentagon City from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Washington Boulevard (VA Rt. 27), Arlington Boulevard (US Rt. 50), Columbia Pike (VA Rt. 244), Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway (US Rt. 1), and VA Rt. 110 are nearby major thoroughfares.

The area is primarily known as a shopping district, particularly for the multi-level indoor shopping mall, the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City (also known as the Pentagon City Mall), which includes Macy's and Nordstrom as anchor stores. On the west side of the Fashion Centre is the mixed-use development of Pentagon Row, which includes a Harris Teeter grocery store and many smaller specialty stores and restaurants in the midst of high-end apartments and condominiums. Pentagon Row features an outdoor ice rink during the winter.

Other popular retail outlets include a Best Buy, and a Borders Books and Music at Pentagon Centre, which is located to the east of the Fashion Centre across Hayes Street. Next to Pentagon Centre is a Costco Warehouse, which sits in a larger complex of warehouses that is one of the few signs of the area's former industrial character. In 2003, the Costco complex was one of three Arlington County sites proposed by the Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority to host the relocating Montréal Expos; the other two sites were a plot of undeveloped land closer to the Pentagon and a site in the neighborhood of Rosslyn. Though some polls of Arlington residents appeared to show overall support for locating the stadium in the county, the issue was highly divisive and many Pentagon City residents strongly opposed it in a highly visible campaign. Major League Baseball finally announced in the fall of 2004 that the Expos would move to D.C., where the team become the Washington Nationals.

Virginia Highlands Park, located immediately south of the central retail area, provides a lush green space as well as basketball, tennis, and softball/baseball facilities. Adjacent to the park are the Aurora Hills branch of the Arlington Public Library system and a firehouse. The suburban neighborhood of Aurora Hills, which consists primarily of single-family detached housing, extends due south of Pentagon City.

The River House apartment complex includes four older high-rise buildings that house many residents to complement the newly developed luxury apartment homes and condos on Pentagon Row as well as the four-story Southampton Condominium.

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External links

Arlington's Urban Villages - Pentagon City (http://www.commuterpage.com/ART/villages/pentcity.htm)
http://noarlingtonstadium.org/ —includes maps of the proposed sites for MLB baseball stadium and as well as archived news stories documenting the controversy

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