The station sits in the fenced median of Interstate 66. Just a few stops away, the five underground Metrorail stations in the more urbane Rosslyn to Ballston corridor in Arlington County provide a stark contrast. This street-level shop is in an office building constructed almost directly on top of the station. On a nearby corner are the offices of Qwest, an Internet communications company. Across Fairfax Drive is the headquarters of The Nature Conservancy.
Wide sidewalks are lined with ground-level shops such as dry cleaners, copy centers and restaurants.
Nearby are office and apartment buildings, some 20 stories tall. Two blocks away is the Ballston Commons mall. It's a major investment of tax dollars, so let's use it for economic development, let's use it as an important part of our transportation network. And I think it does work. Chris Miller of the Piedmont Environmental Council says the Metro is the region's only transportation system with excess capacity.