As elsewhere in Greater Washington, mixed-use projects around Metro feature large in suburban Maryland’s development scene — not least in Prince George’s County, which aspires to become the region’s next boomtown.
Montgomery County has economic aspirations of its own and is well known for its dominance in the life science industry. That dominance has continued to attract a lot of new development and office-to-lab conversion projects. But don’t underestimate Prince George’s, historically a lower-income bedroom community for D.C., as a rising economic star. Indeed, eight of the 10 big projects showcased in this gallery call Prince George’s home.
Both Montgomery and Prince George’s will probably benefit immensely from the much anticipated, albeit delayed, Purple Line. That new light-rail corridor will connect several suburban economic centers between the two counties, without dipping into D.C. first, as Metro lines do.
In Prince George’s, everybody knows about National Harbor. But the county has a lot else going for it, too. It’s pushing economic development hard — for instance, providing incentive packages for transit-oriented development, courting the FBI’s new headquarters, attracting a bigger piece of the lucrative data center industry, and becoming a center of gravity for quantum computing.
