Stan Wall Leaves WMATA for HR&A
Stan Wall, the director of real estate and station planning for WMATA for the last three years, will leave the transit agency next Friday to become a partner at HR&A Advisors. Stan has helped guide Metro and the region toward more transit-oriented development, working with local partners to ensure each project works with the Metro station it's near. "I'm really not going too far," Stan told Bisnow this morning. "I’ll still be doing the same projects. I’ll still be doing the same things with the same people."
Stan's proudest moment heading WMATA's real estate arm, he says, was completing the plan for the development around the New Carrollton Metro stop (rendered above). The 2.7M SF project, to be developed by a JV of Forest City Washington and Urban Atlantic, will include 1,370 residential units, 1.1M SF of office, 150k SF of retail and a hotel. It's his favorite "because of the broad range of stakeholders," which include Prince George's County and the state of Maryland. "It's going to be fantastic." He starts at HR&A in August, and he's already got his eyes on one particular area: Tysons. "There is really strong momentum there," he says, "and I'd like to keep that going."
