College Park’s redevelopment continues to draw attention in the D.C. area.

As part of this year’s “Best of Washington,” Washingtonian magazine named College Park the “Best College Try” as the region’s best turnaround:

Not long ago, Route 1 in College Park was known for basketball riots, underage drinking, and traffic. But 21 years ago, the city of College Park and the University of Maryland joined forces and formed the City-University Partnership to give this flagship institution the college town it deserved. In that short time, the partnership has opened a charter school to lure new faculty and their families, courted businesses (from Target to MilkBoy ArtHouse, a bar and music venue), and built new apartments to keep recent grads from fleeing to DC. How do you know it works? The people lining up at the bars on Route 1 actually look like they’re of drinking age now.

It’s not the first time the magazine has taken notice of Route 1. In April, it named College Park and Hyattsville as two of D.C.’s next boomtowns, and in 2016 it picked Hyattsville as one of the “five hottest neighborhoods.”

This kind of local news coverage helps attract more interested home buyers to the area, brings more customers to local restaurants and helps keep momentum going for the very turnaround it’s describing.

It’s also helpful that the piece notes the interlocking parts to the strategy here, from the College Park Academy to MilkBoy ArtHouse to apartments aimed at young professionals.

And that’s not to mention the pieces yet to come: new apartments and retail by the College Park Metro station, a new city hall and downtown park, multiple stops on the new Purple Line, a new robotics, engineering and computer science building, new restaurants and a wine bar, and a $110 million mixed-use development on Guilford Drive.

College Park wasn’t the only win for the Route 1 corridor in the Washingtonian’s  “Best of Washington.” For the “Best Cafes for More Than Food” category, local favorite Busboys and Poets was touted. And murals were named the “Best Building Trend.” While the Route 1 corridor wasn’t named specifically, it has definitely been at the center of this trend, with impressive murals at the Prince George’s African American Museum in North Brentwood, Vigilante Coffee and Franklins in Hyattsville, and near Nando’s in College Park, just to name a few.