Manassas Landing is planned as a high-quality, pedestrian-oriented, 650,000 sq. ft. mixed-use environment. Manassas Landing will provide the backdrop for a rich and vital urban experience for residents, employers, workers and visitors alike. Weaving together a variety of uses, Manassas Landing will have places for both the routine aspects of everyday life and the occasional grand, celebratory public events of civic display. This will be a neighborhood to live in, work in, play in, celebrate, and remember.
The streets and blocks of Manassas Landing form an easy, comprehensible network for the organization of public life. The street pattern offers the public options and alternatives, creating the basis for easy and efficient communication throughout the district.
The sidewalks are planed to be built with trees, lighting and seating in commercial areas and will be regularly inhabited with pedestrians as they traverse to places of business, nearby shops, restaurants, hotels, and entertainment venues in the course of their daily lives. Sidewalk cafés can further enliven the pedestrian experience.
The architecture is to be designed to offer a variety of visual experience. Fronting on the public sidewalks, buildings will frame the street, with main entries accessed directly from the public way. At ground level, the base of buildings is to be finely detailed, offering visual interest, with continuous, active frontages providing a constantly-changing, lively pedestrian environment.
Open spaces and landscaped areas will be linked together to create a network of public plazas, parks, and courtyards. Street trees and plants will provide shade to pedestrians, and visually frame special points of interest. Amenities will include esplanades, gardens, water features, sculptures, and other items.
The design of Manassas Landing is intended to promote a rich and varied urban environment, encouraging the design of streets, streetscapes, buildings and landscaping to contribute to the development of an exciting urban lifestyle. An environment rich in features and activities brings residents and visitors to its streets. |
