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Article: Reston's Town Center Soon to Be a Reality; Suburban `Downtown' 25 Years in the Making
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- The Washington Post
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- June 30, 1990
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The planned community of Reston is finally getting its downtown,
a quarter of a century after the first houses were built in the
wooded countryside 18 miles west of Washington.
Reston's "town center" was part of the original plan of the
town's creator, Robert E. Simon, but is just now nearing completion.
Several past attempts to get the project underway collapsed,
largely because there weren't enough people living nearby to shop in
the stores, eat in the restaurants and work in the offices, said
Kenneth P. Wong, senior development manager for the town center
project.
"The idea of a downtown in the suburbs was something that no one
really had a grip on," he said. "It's a very ...