Behold the New Hawtness of Tysons Corner, Same as the Old Hawtness

Assuming you find anecdotes about billionaire developers cute, there's a cute story in the Post today about two development titans going to a Nationals game and carving up Tysons as if they were approaching the endgame in a midnight dorm-room game of Risk maybe discussing their plans for "Fairfax County's downtown." In sum, the approach appears to be of the "stick big tall buildings next to the low-rise shopping malls and allow hilarity to ensue" variety. In other words, more of the same for Tysons, fancy Wal-Mart on the other side of "town" notwithstanding.

Behold the edgy urban vibe we'll soon be experiencing:

A proposed 50,000-square-foot plaza is intended to allow easy connections between the mall and the new buildings, and Coppola envisions promotions and incentives linked by all four. Fans of the American Girl store, for instance, may be offered discounts on hotel or restaurant bills. Employers in the office building may use the AMC theater for corporate video conferences. The plaza may host weddings or events in conjunction with the hotel.

Got to be honest. Tysons may have a Cheesecake Factory, but we like our awesome parallelograms better than theirs.