{"id":19170,"date":"2024-05-13T18:39:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/?p=19170"},"modified":"2024-05-13T18:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:43:27","slug":"showcasing-smart-growth-success-amazon-hq-field-experience-at-rlm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/homepage\/blog\/showcasing-smart-growth-success-amazon-hq-field-experience-at-rlm","title":{"rendered":"Showcasing Smart Growth Success: Amazon HQ Field Experience at RLM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Check out the recap video by clicking the image.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Arlington, Virginia has led the country on Smart Growth for more than half a century. As a result, the County has seen tremendous growth, and since 2016, has consistently been\u202franked one of the top places in the country to live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Arlington\u2019s decades of work led to a historic economic development success: attracting Amazon\u2019s second headquarters.<\/p>\n

To kick off the REALTORS\u00ae Legislative Meetings on Saturday, May 4, attendees had the opportunity to take a walking tour of Arlington\u2019s National Landing neighborhood \u2013 home of Amazon’s HQ2 \u2013 and hear from local experts on how the area has become a growing hub for walkability, multimodal transportation, nightlife, amenities, and more.<\/p>\n

The REALTOR\u00ae Party Community Outreach team worked with the Northern Virginia Association of REALTORS\u00ae<\/a> (NVAR) to showcase this Smart Growth success story in their backyard. Following a walking tour with the National Landing Business Improvement District, partners including Arlington Economic Development, the Arlington Planning Department, the Alexandria Economic Development Partnership, and the Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance gave attendees a full picture of the process, from highlighting the benefits of Smart Growth and principles of civic engagement to addressing affordable housing needs and economic development priorities for residents and businesses alike.<\/p>\n

The afternoon closed with a reception hosted by NVAR in National Landing, providing attendees a venue to share ideas and reflections gleaned from the day, as well as to connect directly with local real estate, government, and community leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were thrilled to bring together representatives from REALTOR\u00ae associations across the nation to be inspired by the history of Smart Growth planning in Arlington and to see firsthand how it lays the groundwork for generations of development and transition,\u201d said NAR\u2019s Hannah Dannenfelser, Manager, Community Outreach Grants & Resources. \u201cWe also put a spotlight on local Placemaking projects galvanized by Amazon\u2019s arrival to inspire participants to lead placemaking initiatives in their own communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis opportunity to partner with NAR and highlight the amazing work being done in National Landing, Arlington, and across the Northern Virginia region was one of the highlights of the REALTORS\u00ae Legislative Meetings for myself and the leadership of NVAR,\u201d said Josh Veverka, NVAR’s Senior Director of Government Affairs. \u201cTo be able to present our development successes, along with the public policy challenges a vibrant, growing community faces when bringing in a transformational economic development project, was a tremendous learning opportunity for all of our REALTOR\u00ae leaders who attended from across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reviews from those leaders were overwhelmingly positive. \u201cWe really got to understand some of the wonderful things [that the community is] doing in terms of collaboration with community leaders, with business partners, and with corporate citizens to bring in development opportunities,\u201d said Nate Johnson, NAR\u2019s Vice President of Advocacy, who participated in the tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope attendees will draw from the lessons learned in Arlington to drive growth in their communities, as well as consider how they can leverage the REALTOR\u00ae Party\u2019s Community Outreach grants and resources to support these efforts,\u201d Dannenfelser said.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the REALTOR\u00ae Party\u2019s Community Outreach Program, including Smart Growth initiatives, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To kick off the REALTORS\u00ae Legislative Meetings on Saturday, May 4, attendees had the opportunity to take a walking tour of Arlington\u2019s National Landing neighborhood \u2013 home of Amazon’s HQ2 \u2013 and hear from local experts on how the area has become a growing hub for walkability, multimodal transportation, nightlife, amenities, and more.","protected":false},"author":20974,"featured_media":19172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1821,594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-community-outreach"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20974"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}