Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks is launching an ambitious economic development agenda, with an emphasis on transit-oriented development along Metro’s Blue Line as the central tenet of her plan, as the county works to recover from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In an exclusive interview with the Washington Business Journal ahead of her “State of the County” speech Wednesday night, Alsobrooks laid out a vision to substantially increase wages, jobs, commercial tax revenues, and new housing as a way to become D.C.’s preeminent suburb. She also wants to add 50,000 new residents by 2035.
Some of Alsobrooks’ strategies for achieving those big goals are familiar ones — for instance, she envisions luring more federal agencies to Prince George’s, including a long-sought-after FBI headquarters, and she hopes to encourage the Washington Football Team to build a new mixed-use complex at its current home in Landover.
But her emphasis on new homes and offices close to transit stations approaching D.C.’s eastern border is somewhat of a departure from where her predecessors sought to build up.
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