Rosslyn Renaissance (1991 - 2012)
Urban Design Committee

To accommodate the new work program in Urban Design, the BID Executive Committee expanded in January 2012 to include four RR board members, who continue to be members of the BID Board.

With guidance from its professionally staffed Urban Design Committee, RR participated in the County’s Site Plan Review process and helped review and refine major development projects, public art installations, signage systems and streetscape improvements. In recent years, RR’s work helped achieve community benefits packages that include:

  • Donated space for Arlington’s cultural arts center, Artisphere
  • An observation deck atop the Central Place office tower
  • A pedestrian esplanade to Key Bridge
  • A public patio overlooking the vista of Georgetown
  • Ninety-eight additional affordable housing units

The public/private partnership known as RR leaves a legacy of successful years of urban design and development leadership. The good work of Rosslyn Renaissance will be continued by the Rosslyn BID, which members of the RR board of directors helped create in 2003.

“The creation of the BID is among the greatest of RR’s accomplishments,” said BID Executive Director Cecilia Cassidy. “The new organizational structure will bring us full circle. It is a graduation of sorts for the two groups – to Rosslyn’s benefit.”