Jason Zogg

Director of Placemaking & Activation

Jason joined the TCA team in July 2024 to focus on placemaking. Placemaking is the art and science of creating a sense of place – the unique collection of qualities and characteristics that provide meaning to a location, that make our physical surroundings worth caring about. 

Jason has focused his career on creating world class urban districts during transformational periods in their history. He enjoys building unique urban place management organizations and the processes that make them effective. Jason is a multidisciplinary systems thinker and is driven to create cities that are environmentally sustainable, economically viable, social vibrant, measurably healthy and undoubtedly safe.  

Previously Jason was at the Georgetown BID in charge of the implementation of the Canal Plan. He came to D.C. from Ford’s Michigan Central Station project, where he led the transformation of 14 acres of Ford property into a system of connected urban open spaces relevant to today’s Detroit. He developed the initial strategy for Michigan Central to become the country’s first mobility innovation district and then managed public realm planning, landscape architecture, and transportation/mobility planning while contributing to district-wide master planning and urban design. Previously Jason was a Director at the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority where he was part of re-starting that agency and managing design review, zoning, transportation, parks, wayfinding, placemaking and more. He was the urban planner at DTE Energy that started their downtown Detroit revitalization initiative that resulted in Beacon Park, and began his career in airport & sustainability consulting at VHB. Jason holds a BA & Masters in Urban Planning from University at Albany, SUNY.  

Jason lives in Rosslyn and is an avid kayaker, hiker and camper, passionate about the National Parks, and is more than 90% done with his 10-year travel goal of visiting all 433 NPS units. 

Favorite thing about Tysons: The grand reveal out the window on the Metro as it curves into the McLean station.