“…Dulles International Airport opened in 1962 in Sterling, Virginia, about fourteen miles west of Tysons (O' Con-nell, 2011). The completion of the Capital Beltway, a highway circumventing the Washington, DC, area, in 1964 centered all 1,700 acres of Tysons around Routes 7, 123, and Interstate 495, resulting in extensive highway access (see Figure 1, Ceruzzi, 2000).…”