Potomac Yard station
 Potomac Yard   |
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The sign in this park indicates that it occupies a potential site for the future Potomac Yard Metro station
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| Location | Alexandria, VA | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 Metrobus DASH Metroway
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| Structure type | at-grade | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | C11 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opening | 2020 (projected) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Potomac Yard is a planned Washington Metro station in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. The station is scheduled to open in 2020. Potomac Yard station will be operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), providing service for both the Blue and Yellow Lines. The station will be located at Alexandria's planned 7,500,000 square feet (700,000 m2) Potomac Yard mixed-use development bounded by the Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. Route 1) and the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Upon its completion, Potomac Yard will be the second infill station to be added to the Washington Metro system, after NoMa–Gallaudet U in 2004.
Plans to construct a Washington Metro station between the Braddock Road and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport stations on the Blue and Yellow Lines have been proposed since the 300-acre Potomac Yard retail and residential redevelopment began in the late 1990s with the construction of the Potomac Yard Shopping Center. The area of Metrorail at Potomac Yard was originally constructed in a way to allow for a future station.
In June 2008, Alexandria's Planning Commission approved higher-density projects at a town center near the proposed Potomac Yard station site. The first official public meeting on the prospect of the Potomac Yard station was held on February 19, 2009 between Alexandria city officials and the Metrorail Station Feasibility Work Group in Alexandria City Hall.
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