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The Washington Business Journal has an article from February 2, 2007 about a new development in Arlington, VA. It’s called The Club on Quincy.
You can visit The Club on Quincy’s website, and you can read the blurbs about the development on development tracking websites. But, what none of them will tell you (but the WaBizJournal does) is that this development is built on a site with a Funeral Home:
- Luxury residential builder plans to redevelop a site in Virginia , where there’s been a spurt of new construction. The Reston division of WCI Communities has proposed a 124-unit condominium complex on what’s now the Arlington Funeral Home property on North Fairfax Drive.
The article goes on to say that the funeral home will be made part of the site and that they are marketing the homes to the higher-end buyers . . . sound familiar?
Our neighborhood has a similarly interesting/eerie (depending on your point of view) development where condos will be built on top of a church and soup kitchen and marketed to higher-end buyers. This project doesn’t yet have a name or a website – but we’re going to place a bet that the marketing materials will look similar to The Club on Quincy’s.
Edit: And yes, they do cremation on-site (pdf)!
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richard: Interesting question and we found the answer: yes! See this pdf. Scroll down to the last page: “previous county board actions” and see the “July 9, 1983” item.
Gives a new twist to the PBS Upstairs/Downstairs..Upstairs the Living, Downstairs the Departed! How cheery seeing grieving people every day, makes you want to come home to your abode. and a funeral home is not something you can hide discreetly, visitors have to see it.
What next?? Is the price of property that valuable?
Maybe it’s a new housing concept – “Whole Life” Condo Living – at the Club On Quincy, we take care of your needs in this life AND the next!
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i wonder if the cremate on site?