Sycamore Gardens is an enclave of single-family homes in western Arlington County that’s a part of the Williamsburg Civic Affiliation, which has a voluntary annual charge of $10.
There’s no official entrance to Sycamore Gardens. However the quite a few two-story red-brick Colonials in-built 1950 and 1951, positioned simply east of Bishop Denis J. O’Connell Excessive Faculty, sign that you’ve got arrived. Over time, some residents have renovated, usually with an addition. Different homeowners have torn down present homes and rebuilt.
Shearer checked out 39 properties earlier than she visited the one she now calls dwelling. “As quickly as I walked within the door, I knew this was it,” stated Shearer, who moved from Hawaii to the D.C. space for work. The red-brick Colonial she purchased wanted renovating, she stated, however “it felt completely proper.”
Inside the neighborhood, there’s greater than a neighborhood really feel; there’s a way of household, Shearer stated. “We will knock on somebody’s door, they usually’ll inform you to return in.”
Sycamore Gardens is a multigenerational neighborhood. It used to have a “snow brigade,” which related older residents with youthful ones who shoveled snow for them. After one snowstorm, Shearer drove a neighbor and their sick child to the hospital, as a result of the neighbor’s cul-de-sac was snowed in, she stated. “That’s what dwelling right here is like.”
Coral Gundlach shares that affection for Sycamore Gardens, having lived in three homes within the space since 2001.
Gundlach, an actual property agent and vp at Compass, described Sycamore Gardens as a vibrant and exquisite neighborhood with many sidewalks, mature timber, tidy yards and loads of walkers with canine or youngsters in tow.
The 2-story Colonials are “a beautiful measurement,” Gundlach stated, that “lots of people have raised three youngsters in.”
North Somerset Avenue, the place her former house is positioned, is one which Gundlach and her husband all the time cherished, she stated. “It’s actually cute, and we needed a quieter avenue as our children bought older.”
Though she’s now dwelling outdoors of Sycamore Gardens — however simply “a stone’s throw away” — she’s nonetheless invited to the annual block occasion on twenty eighth Avenue North. Residents have a potluck, and middle-schoolers lead video games for the youthful youngsters, she stated.
Kids stroll or experience bikes to close by Tuckahoe Elementary, and residents collect at 12-acre Tuckahoe Park, which features a playground, two baseball fields, two tennis courts, nature trails, picnic tables and an amphitheater.
Sycamore Gardens is a brief stroll to the Williamsburg Procuring Heart. Over time, the Williamsburg Civic Affiliation has helped brighten the buying space for the vacation season by including colourful lights on a neighborhood tree within the middle of the busy Williamsburg visitors circle, Gundlach stated.
The walkability and the handy location of Sycamore Gardens are what introduced Kate Waters to the neighborhood in 1985 — and what proceed to maintain her there.
Now that she and her husband are retired, Waters tends to stroll or bike. There are quite a few bike lanes and close by trails, together with the Washington and Previous Dominion Path.
To assist shield pedestrians corresponding to Waters, Shearer established the Williamsburg Civic Affiliation Visitors and Pedestrian Security Committee in 2011, and residents have continued traffic-calming efforts on this bustling Arlington space.
An instance is the Sycamore Avenue median mission, accomplished in 2017. It added a median on North Sycamore Avenue, between the Williamsburg circle and twenty sixth Avenue North, and adjusted the four-lane street to 2 lanes, with a motorcycle lane in each instructions.
East Falls Church Metro station, inside a couple of mile, makes for straightforward day journeys to the nation’s capital, Waters stated. Additionally a couple of mile away: the Falls Church Farmers Market at Falls Church Metropolis Corridor; the Lee Harrison Procuring Heart, which has a Harris Teeter; and the Westover Procuring Heart, which options Westover Market.
The neighborhood has quick access to Interstate 66 to get to Tysons, about 5 miles away, and Washington, about 9 miles away. The Capital Beltway (I-495) and Dulles Toll Street are additionally close by.
“I wish to keep right here so long as we’re capable of. It’s a really pleasant place, and all people watches out for one another,” Waters stated. “We’re like an enormous household.”
Dwelling there: Sycamore Gardens is bordered by Williamsburg Boulevard to the north, North Sycamore Avenue to the east, North Trinidad Avenue and Bishop Denis J. O’Connell Excessive Faculty to the west, and twenty sixth Avenue North and Tuckahoe Elementary to the south.
Gundlach stated there are not any properties at the moment in the marketplace. Inside the previous 12 months, 5 properties have offered, and the typical value was $957,000. The bottom-priced was a four-bedroom, two-bathroom, 1,470-square-foot rambler for $825,000. The best-priced was a four-bedroom, three-bathroom, 2,396-square-foot Colonial with an addition for $1,155,000. Gundlach stated she’s conscious of 1 rental in Sycamore Gardens: a three-bedroom, two-bathroom, 2,016-square-foot Colonial rented for $3,950/month.
Faculties: Tuckahoe Elementary, Williamsburg Center, Yorktown Excessive.
Transit: Arlington Transit has quite a few close by bus stops alongside North Sycamore Avenue and North Trinidad Avenue, which offer transit to the East Falls Church Metro station lower than a mile away and the Ballston Metro station roughly three miles away, each serving the Orange and Silver strains. Reagan Nationwide Airport is roughly 10 miles away.
