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SPOTLIGHT/SMART CITIES

GRAMERCY DISTRICT: A FULLY

INTEGRATED SMART CITY PLATFORM

REALCOMM STAFF

WHEN MOST PEOPLE THINK of the top ten places
to live in the United States, few of them list Loudoun
County, VA. However, Loudoun has held a position in the
top ten for years due to its desirability and standard of
living. Over 60% of the residents hold a university degree
or higher, the median household income is more than
double the national average, and it is third in the nation
for fastest job growth. Given these accolades, it’s no
wonder Loudoun is one of the fastest growing counties in
the U.S., and one new development located at the future Gramercy District, a premier mixed-use transit oriented
Ashburn Metro Station is only going to accelerate this development on a fully integrated smart city platform,
growth. blends luxury residential, co-working, education, hotel, retail,
and high-rise office space.
Citylink.ai, a smart city developer, recognized Loudoun
County as a great destination and has partnered with a 300+ unit luxury residential apartment complex with
Loudoun County Economic Development to create one integrated smart technology, 20,000 SF of ground-floor
of the first ground-up Smart Cities in the United States: retail and 8,000 SF of amenities, including open spaces
Gramercy District. Citylink.ai is the RE:TECH arm of 22 and state-of-the-art fitness facilities. ConceptFoundry is a
Capital Partners, the development company leading 25,000 SF coworking facility that will create an ecosystem
the charge at this new site. The company is focused for collaboration with a live sandbox to test ideas,
on streamlining all aspects of mixed-use development private offices, event management for teams of all sizes,
projects using human-centered design principals and the common spaces to encourage interaction and community
latest technology that creates immersive and citizen- events for networking. Additionally, ConceptFoundry will
centric experiences. They have partnered with a variety operate on citylink.ai’s new coworking platform that is
of leading firms in a wide range of industries including being rolled-out in several MakeOffice locations by the
Bonaventure Realty Group, engineering firm AECOM, end of the year. The remaining development phases will
coworking enterprise MakeOffices, smart city technology include over 2,000 residential units, a hotel, a trophy office
provider life.ai, and more in order to bring their vision of building and mixed-use retail.
a holistic, hyper-connected district to fruition.
However, what makes this development truly unique
Gramercy District is known as an “Innovation Campus,” a is the cutting-edge technology that is being integrated
living lab where ideas and projects can be built, proven, into every aspect of the district. The smart city platform,
and scaled city-wide. It is a fully-entitled, transit-oriented powered by life.ai, will create a hyper-localized environment
2.5M SF mixed-use project located ten minutes from by connecting buildings, services, and citizens into one
Dulles International Airport, twenty-minutes from the comprehensive application that is simple, convenient, and
Dulles Technology Corridor, and forty-minutes from fun to use. By using Artificial Intelligence, the platform
Washington, D.C. The district has plans for multiple learns and adapts from each citizen to create a truly
phases of development with the first phase set to include personalized experience that seamlessly combines live,
NeonLofts and ConceptFoundry. NeonLofts includes work, learn and play into one interface. It achieves this by

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