Transit hubs throughout Prince George’s County — from existing Metro stations at Branch Avenue and Largo Town Center to future Purple Line stops in New Carrollton and College Park — are primed for a slew of new development in the coming years. The county is now working to overhaul its 50-year-old zoning code to encourage dense, mixed-use development around all of its transit nodes.
PREIT The entrance to the Mall at Prince George’s in Hyattsville The county has been working through its comprehensive zoning rewrite for four years, and the plan could pass as soon as October.
County officials are hopeful it could help turn many of the large parking lots around the county’s Metro stations into the type of mixed-use, transit-oriented development seen in other parts of the region and spur development around the new Purple Line stops.
“We need more transit-oriented development,” said Prince George’s County Planning Director Andree Green Checkley, who will speak at Bisnow’s Prince George’s County State of the Market Sept. 13. “We need to be in sync with modern economic growth and development so we can grow our tax base.”
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