There Goes The Neighborhood: In Lake Anne, Milllion-Dollar Townhomes and a Gas Station for Sale

Often mocked as Reston's crumbling, brutalist neighborhood where the 1960s never ended, Lake Anne appears to be getting.... fancy. Or at least regentrified.

Consider the million-dollar townhouses going up next to the new Lake Anne Fellowship House, part of the deal that replaced the original aging high-rise right outside of the Village Center. No shin crackin' concrete playgrounds or jet-age air conditioning here, nosiree! Just your typical 21st century homes, if a little bit "mid" for a seven-figure home, as the kids might have said as recently as two years ago. (Decorum forbids us from mentioning those very Ashburn driveways and "front yards.")

But we digress. With such exciting new homes, you might expect some spillover regentrification. And you'd be right! If you've got an extra $7 million lying around and don't need seven townhomes to build your family compound, you could get on the ground floor of "An exciting opportunity for Mix Use [sic] Development" right off North Shore Drive.

If that address doesn't ring a bell, here's what's there now:

"DO NOT DISTURB THE CURRENT BUSINESS, CALL THE LISTING AGENT TO DISCUSS," the listing reads. Alrighty then!  

Maybe it'll be replaced with some premium gas station that dispenses only the finest imported petroleum and a fleet of rental cybertrucks instead of tawdry moving vans. Nothing but the best for Reston's hottest, most upscale neighborhood!

But wait, what's this?

Only six figures? There goes the neighborhood... again.