AtTwentyRESrO-One,Reston Hits RecordN High. n May, Reston concluded a Reston has arrived in another porary to the stateliest Victorian. six-month celebration of its way, long-anticipated.The Dulles Reston is notjust a place to live TwentiethI Birthday. Appropriate Toll Road, locally known as the It's also a place to work. The Busi- with turning twenty-oneis afeeling Reston Expressway, has brought ness Center has more than 900 with 21,000 of coming of age. Of excitement Reston within 25 minutes of the businesses employees about the future. Kennedy Center and Georgetown. And the Reston Expressway, with And there's plenty to be excited And restaurants, shopping and three interchanges to the Business about. Reston is flourishing. The otherTysons Corner attractions Center, has created a boom in signs are everywhere. are now less than ten minutes away. commercial/industrial development In 1984, investments in Reston Reston is on the move in other in Reston. CoIdwell Banker Com- hit a record $250 million.The net ways too. As the town has grown, mercial Senior Sales Consultant sales of 771 new homes were $85 housing has become more diverse. John McEvilly says, "TheToll Road million, up 21 percent from 1983. Reston offers $70,000 condomin- made believers out of everyone. Residential resale volume reached iums at South Lakes, $120,000 As soon as it was actually under- $100 million. And industrial/com- patio homes in North Point Village way, there was a virtual land rush mercial construction exceeded $65 and, in secluded coves, $500,000 out the corridor. The corridor is because million in one million square feet. single-family homes. In between appealing to businesses no What's more, 1985 promises to are homes in all price ranges and there are no used-car lots, strip deliver a rep at performance. style-, from th 1 'k contem- retail, no clutter. Thei ire homes, trees, village centers, all properly planned, plus an outstanding quality of life." The Reston Business Center has attracted blue chip companies like GTE, GE, Satellite Business Systems, Sperry and AT&T as well assome of thepremierregional and national developers including Centennial Development Corp., Trammell Crow, Mulligan/Griffin. The Sammis Co., and Walker & Ca The Business Center is also be- coming an architectural showcase for high technology. It includes buildings designed by Marcel Breuet Skidmore, Owings&Menill, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, TheNewReston Davis & Carter, Coupard Asso- ciates, SHWC and Clark, Tribble, Of NorthPointVillage. Harris & Li, to mention a few. the northern end of Reston piped up the Tobey's 13-year-old As Reston matures, it also has Atin North Point Village is the son Ned. "Lastweek we discovered more services to offer. Ground was home of architect Phil Tobey and a loon on Lake Newport" Pam said, broken this spring in Town Center his family. Sunlight pours in from "We fell in love with this wooded for the 127-bed Reston Hospital the skylights flooding the cathedral- lot and its stunning views of the Center, the first hospital to be con- ceilinged living room. From --- lake. Youcan't help becoming very structed in western Fairfax County. Newport Cove Lane location, the conscious of wildlife here." An innovative complex for the Tobey home commands a view of elderly, including a nursing home Lake Newport, filtered by a stand "You can't help becoming very andapartment complex, is planned of rough-barked oak trees. conscious ofwildlife here." nearby. And across town, Thoreau This is Phil and Pam Tobey's Place, a condominium for the elder- third Reston home. Atestament to Ten-year-old Jay added, "We ly, offers health care facilities. the move-up phenomenon that lets saw a redheaded woodpecker yes- Reston's urban focal point will Restonians keep their community terday and Dad is going to help us be Town Center. This 30-acre com- as they change houses.Tobey said build a birdhouse and feederthis plex will host a first-class hotel, when his family moved to Reston afternoon." restaurants, shops, offices, busi- in 1972, "We wanted to find more The Tobeys may be pioneers in ness services, a town square and than a house.We were looking for a North Point, butthey are surround- cultural amenities. senseofcommunity, a sense ofplace. ed by areassuring community. Phil, Constructionof the first phase is And we found it here in Reston' who is a partner with Metcalfe & scheduled to begin in the nearfu- There is a quiet sense of living Associates in Georgetown, is on hire, bringing full circle Restoth 20- with nature in North Point, Reston's the Lake Anne Nursery Kinder- year-old commitment to building newestand final residential village. garten (LANK) board and a com- asuccesslul city in the countryside. 'I like the pen fields and the tn :' missioner onthe 120-team (1,800 boys and girls) Reston Soccer Association, two longtime local institutions.The new Reston of \ i-th Point is not isolated from the re settled areas. Pam's favorite -hopping is at FreshValue super- ii uwket in Lake Anne Village Cen- i. a three-minute drive away. lay and Ned canget on their bikes and visitfriends in the Tobey's old I lands neighborhood two miles n\ av "They geton the pathway in th Point, and with the system underpasses, canrideall the way back to our old home without having to cross a single street;' said Phil Tobey. Another three-minute drive Tobey home, six tennis courts are many boats while growing up in from the Tobey's is Autumnwood being built and across N. Village Salem, MA, has a 12-foot Puffer Park on Walnut Branch Road. Au- Road, Reston's first 50-meter out- sailboat. Except for winter months, tumnwood will be one of the recrea- door pool complex will be built she sails two days a week on the tional focal points of North Point soon. Another tangible commit. lake outside her door. Village. Incorporating all the les- ment to a full range of amenities In South Lakes Village, the sonsof park building and recreation for even the newest residents. Hartnetts have the privacy to do development in Reston's 20-year Construction began this spring things within the family, or in a history, the 23-acre Autumnwood onthe Neil ArmstrongElementar: more public way. Joyce explained, will offer a swimming complex, School site. Scheduled to open for "A marvelous, unexpected thing four all-weather tennis courts, the 1986-87 school year, this con- happened this year, the Reston jogging trails and open-play area temporary building will provide Triathlon! The swimming event for flying kitesorthrowing a Frisbee. North Point Village with an im- starts it all off right here on Lake But there will be the quietude of portant neighborhood and com- nature too- Much of Autumnwood munity focal point. Park will be left in its natural state, North Point Village exemplifies preserving the land's stately oaks some of Reston's finest qualities. and winding streams. Concern for the environment. Re- Audubon. It feels like our house is Next to theVisitors Center, just laxed lifestyle. And a true sense smack in the middle of it.We have a short walking distance from the of a neighborhood. a perfect view. So we thought it would be fun to throw a big party and invite all our neighbors over for a Triathlon bash. It turned out SouthLakesMilage. to be such a roaring success that we are going to make it an annual AVibrantBlendOfHousing, event:' The Hartnetts aren't the only LommerceAndRecreation. ones enthralled with South Lakes Joyce Hartnett, living in in Washington, marvels at how Village. At Harbor Point, on the ForSouth LakesVillage is the convenient Reston is to downtown. banks of Lake Thoreau right next best of two worlds. "It's like urban "Reston improved 12 million per- to the Village Center, 100 condo- living in suburbia;' said the former cent when the toll road opened:' minium units sold out in just six American Airlines stewardess and he said. "Washington just moved months, mostly to young profes- motherof two teenage girls, Heather closer to Reston! I tell you there is sionals. The condos, priced from and Shannon. "We lived outside no place during the rest of the cen- $80,000 to $150,000, are loaded Reston for six years. We felt iso- tury where you will see thishappen with skylights, penthouses,Jacuzzis lated and alone at the bottom of a again!"John's office at 15th and L and otherCalifornia design concepts. dark cul-de-sac. Since we discov- Streets NW in the District used to Builder Rex Wing said, "Buyers ered Reston and South LakesVil- be 45 minutes from Reston. Today love the lake, urban environment lage, we have an entirely new lease it is 28 minutes. and joy of walking out their door on life. Everything is so convenient The Hartnett's home in South to go to the village center where here, and there is a real sense of Lakesvillage is one of developer you can do everything from eating neighborhood Chuck Vèatch's roomy, lakefront at a gourmet restaurant to cashing l\-c1h;II lrihn llnvt 11 \ndiihnii Urrncc Ir! 1! -heck to buying fresh-from-the- \\lii I - II I!r I II Shellfish at the seafood store:' South Lakes Village, with its " ')rant blend of " housing, shopping (I recreation, is a complete model Reston master The " planning. st recent additions include L1 I-tons sixteenth community - imming pool which opened Me- flu cml Day weekend, Reston's first high-rise condominium for senior citizens which is connected by an underpass tothe Village Center, hurl 27 shops which are success- I liv satisfying the shopping needs Village residents.