Editing Fairfax County, Virginia (section)

===Tysons===
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[[File:Tysons Corner Sunset .jpg|thumb|[[Tysons, Virginia|Tysons]], a leading business center and one of the nation's largest business districts]]
[[Tysons, Virginia|Tysons]], located in the county, is Virginia's largest office market and the nation's largest suburban business district, with {{convert|26600000|sqft|m2}} of office space.<ref name="tysons">{{cite web|url=http://beyonddc.com/profiles/tysonscorner.shtml|title=Tysons Corner, Virginia|publisher=BeyondDC|access-date=January 20, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070303014230/http://www.beyonddc.com/profiles/tysonscorner.shtml|archive-date=March 3, 2007}}</ref><ref name="tysons business">{{cite web|url=http://www.fairfaxcountyeda.org/tysons-corner-business-area|title=Tysons Corner Business Area|publisher=Fairfax County Economic Development Authority|access-date=April 20, 2010|archive-date=March 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100303013000/http://fairfaxcountyeda.org/tysons-corner-business-area|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is the country's 12th-largest business district and is expected to grow substantially in the coming decades. It contains a quarter of the county's total office space inventory, which was {{convert|105200000|sqft|m2}} as of 2006, representing roughly the same size as the [[Lower Manhattan]] region of New York City.<ref name="CoStar">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/11/10/CU2005111001553.html|title=The CoStar Office Market Watch|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=November 12, 2009}}</ref> In October 2011, ''[[Forbes]]'' described the area as "the place where the [[Internet]] was invented, but today it looks increasingly like the center of the global [[military-industrial complex]]",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2011/10/10/why-virginias-become-mecca-for-military-contractors/|title=Why Virginia's Become Mecca For Military Contractors|date=October 10, 2011|work=Forbes|access-date=March 16, 2016}}</ref> because it is home to the nation's first [[Internet service provider|ISPs]], many of which are now defunct, and attracts numerous [[defense contractor]]s that have relocated from other states to or near Tysons Corner.

Tysons draws over 100,000 workers from around the [[Washington metropolitan area]], and draws 55,000 shoppers daily to its two [[super-regional mall]]s, [[Tysons Corner Center]] and [[Tysons Galleria]] compared to 62,500 shoppers daily in [[Washington, D.C.]].

After years of delays attributed to stalling and controversy, the $5.2 billion expansion of the [[Washington Metro]] [[Silver Line (Washington Metro)|Silver Line]] in Virginia from Washington, D.C., to [[Washington Dulles International Airport|Dulles International Airport]] was funded by the [[Federal Transit Administration]] in December 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/03/AR2008120302256.html|title=Silver Line To Dulles Wins Crucial Federal Okay|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 16, 2016}}</ref> The Silver Line added four stations in Tysons, including [[Tysons station|a station]] between Tysons Corner Center and Tysons Galleria.

Along with the expansion of Washington Metro, Fairfax County government has a plan to "urbanize" the Tysons area. The plan calls for a private-public partnership and a grid-like street system to make Tysons a more urban environment, tripling available housing to allow more workers to live near their workplaces. The goal is to have 95% of Tysons Corner within {{convert|1/2|mi|m|adj=on|sigfig=1}} of a metro station.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=A (Radical) Way to Fix Suburban Sprawl|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|author=Lisa Selin Davis|date=June 11, 2009|url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1904187,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615083138/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1904187,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 15, 2009}}</ref>