The Reston skyline is viewed on a clear day from the Broadlands community in south Ashburn VA.
On the left is the AOL campus, now subletting to a defense contractor as its laid off many workers and headquarters has moved to NYC.
Broadlands is strongly identified with the dot com tech boom of the late 1990s.
Reston is emerging as a design center into the 2010s.
Nextel, a large Reston based cell phone company was recently sold off, laid of thousands and moved HQ to a Kansas City suburb.
Business and government leaders are looking back 10 years to the 1999 boom days and shaking heads as the Dulles area seemingly fades from the tech spotlight.
Maybe temporary?
