Laurel Today - (Page 8) U S D T E K Konterra will be an animated and adventurous place where people can live, work, shop and play in a landmark location along the Interstate-95 corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. In keeping with the basic principles of smart growth, the community will o er an alternative to suburban sprawl. The center’s 132-acre downtown core is designed around a central town square lled with fashion retail and restaurants punctuated with highly designed common gathering spaces, heavily landscaped sidewalks and residential housing, a hotel and commercial o ce space. “We’re pu ing a mixed-use development in an area of Prince George’s County that has long needed a ‘special place a town center.’ is will provide access to a collection of better retail, dining, housing and employment all in close proximity to one another,” Gerald Chappell, Laurel resident, 40 years said Tom Archer, vice president of Forest City Washington. Forest City Washington is developing the town center with the Gould family, which has owned the property since 1981.
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