Twice as nice: Seat Pleasant is served by two Metro stations, meaning you're never very far from convenient transportation.
As of July 1, 2009, the city of Seat Pleasant in Prince George’s County, Md., was home to 4,903 residents, making it a very small city indeed, until you realize that it sits less than a mile outside of Washington, D.C.
It’s this location that makes renting an apartment in Seat Pleasant so convenient. In fact, convenience may be the town’s middle name, or at least its sobriquet.
Seat Pleasant has an oddity though. Its WMATA Metrorail station on the Blue Line – Addison Road-Seat Pleasant – is actually in neighboring Capitol Heights. Stranger still, the Capitol Heights stop (also on the Blue Line) is closer to Seat Pleasant than Seat Pleasant’s own stop is. So, depending on where you live exactly, you could use either station.
The community was incorporated in 1931, buoyed by earlier growth from the Chesapeake Beach Railway. But even by the early ’30s, it was a railroad already in decline, going belly-up in 1935, though highway construction brought further expansion to the town.
While not much exists from the area’s past, one beacon that does remain is Addison Chapel (also known as St. Matthew’s Church), which was built either in 1809 or 1810. Today, Seat Pleasant features the Seat Pleasant Activity Center, which offers residents a gymnasium, fitness room, kitchen and storage areas. It’s also home to four outdoor basketball courts.
Other green spaces in town, like Seat Pleasant Neighborhood Park and Goodwin Park, offer similar amenities. Residents can play basketball under the lights, softball, soccer/football or have a picnic. Washington Redskins fans will also take heart that FedEx Field is only a couple miles to the northwest (mainly west).
While there isn’t much shopping to be done in Seat Pleasant, you’re near enough to the Boulevard at the Capital Centre (four miles and change) in nearby Largo, which features a Borders Books, Pier 1 Imports, Sports Authority, restaurants and an AMC Magic Johnson Capital Centre 12 theater. Seat Pleasant’s own Addison Plaza hosts a Safeway, and there are two Giant Food stores within three miles of the city. On top of that, you’re close enough to major roads – and of course Metrorail – to find what you need.
So, there you have it: Seat Pleasant is a convenient place for apartment renters to call home.
