Our Initiatives
Create a welcoming and attractive corridor of neighborhood places and public spaces.
Encourage spaces that strengthen and respect existing neighborhoods, promote walkability, and create distinctive areas with retail/office/services and residential or other uses. Develop creative architecture, welcoming gateways, new or improved open spaces, plazas, and parks. Include underground utilities to enhance Langston Boulevard’s appeal and sense of arrival.
Environmental sustainability and green spaces
Transform the corridor into a ‘green main street’ by encouraging environmental sustainability.
Preservation of the cultural heritage and history of the boulevard
Preserve the stories of our legacy businesses, community leaders, and historic places to increase the public’s understanding and appreciation for a storied and troubled past, challenge racism and promote equity.
An inclusive range of housing choices
Support housing options emphasizing affordable units and meeting a range of needs and incomes.
Economic vitality and sustainability to build local identity
Identify Langston Boulevard as an innovative place to attract new businesses and support established ones that serve the community.
Complete streets that are safe for everyone
Support widened sidewalks, easier boulevard crossings, improved bicycle facilities, enhanced transportation and transit services, sufficient on-street and shared off-street parking, and abundant electric charging stations.
Enriching arts and cultural experiences
Art enriches our lives—seeing specially made bricks along a historic walkway, listening to a concert by local musicians, envisioning new public art for a Langston retail area.
Preserving Cultural Heritage
People and Places
The People and Places Project is not just a celebration, but a crucial effort to preserve the rich cultural heritage found along the Langston Boulevard corridor. In conjunction with Arlington County, LBA is collecting the stories of local people and locations that have played an important role in defining our shared sense of place in the communities along the corridor.
Welcoming to All
Renaming the Boulevard
Langston Boulevard was renamed in order to realize the years-long grassroots community effort to create a welcoming Main Street by removing the word "Highway" and to begin to reconcile the painful racial history many in our community have experienced by removing the name "Lee."
Plan Langston Boulevard
The purpose of the planning study is to develop a comprehensive vision and policy framework for the future of the Langston Boulevard Study Area through County Board adoption of a County Plan.
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