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Mixed-Use Development

The Smart Math of Mixed-Use Development

Are cities across the country acting negligently in ignoring the property tax implications of different development types? Joseph Minicozzi thinks so, and he's done the math to prove it.
23 January 2012 - 1:00pm
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Massive Mixed-Use Transit Oriented Development To Hit White Flint

In Maryland, the Washingtonian Tower has been the tallest skyscraper in Montgomery County. Developers in White Flint are proposing an even taller building that will incorporate mixed-use, transit-oriented, and retail/office development in one plan.
6 December 2011 - 1:00pm
Greater Greater Washington

Revitalization Projects in South Central L.A.

Bank of America touts their lending programs that have funded redevelopment in South Central, particularly a mixed-use development at the corner of Adams and Central that includes a Fresh N' Easy market.
31 May 2011 - 5:00am
Bank of America

The End is Near for the Commercial Strip

Several factors are leading to the end of commercial strip development while simultaneously leading to more and more town centers and mixed-use facilities.
10 March 2011 - 1:00pm
UrbanLand

A New Kind of Airport

Architect Claire Lester reimagines Chicago's O'Hare as a dynamic, multipurpose environment.
14 November 2010 - 11:00am
The Architect's Newspaper

An Apartment to Fit A Family? Forget It

Architect Roger K. Lewis writes in The Washington Post that it is nearly impossible for a family with school-age children to find a suitable apartment in the city, even if that is the way they'd prefer to live.
30 August 2010 - 8:00am
The Washington Post
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As Slump Continues, Developers Turn to Mixed-Use, Ped-Friendly Homes

In a new survey conducted in the Tri-State and Mid-Atlantic regions, 60% of developers said they were shifting their emphasis away from big houses to "conservative pedestrian-oriented mixed-use neighborhoods."
25 August 2010 - 1:00pm
City Bizlist

Mixed-Use, V.2: Big Box Living

The Rise, a new mixed-use development in Vancouver, includes 1,500 condos, sushi restaurants, art galleries - and a Home Depot.
15 November 2009 - 1:00pm
The Globe and Mail

Smart Growth Suburbia?

The Lighthouse at Long Island is a proposed 5.5 million sq. ft. of mixed-use development covering 150 acres of Nassau County. The developers see it as a new form of smart growth suburbia.
19 June 2009 - 2:00pm
The New York Times
Diana DeRubertis

Shopping: An ‘Obnoxious Industrial Activity’?

Sat, 05/30/2009 - 13:27

 

As James Howard Kunstler points out in Home From Nowhere, one of the tragedies of single-use zoning is that it branded shopping as an “obnoxious industrial activity that must be kept separate from houses”.  Ironically, the places where most Americans shop today come pretty close to “obnoxious” and “industrial”. 

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An Aerotropolis for Atlanta

Construction begins on Aerotropolis Atlanta, an unusual "live-work-play mini-city" development going up close to Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport- so close, in fact, that there will be a connecting walkway directly to the new international terminal.
27 May 2009 - 8:00am
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Clearing the Way for Mixed-Use, But Economy Puts Projects On Hold

The people of Salt Lake City have gotten behind the switch to mixed-use, and developers have been clearing away old sprawl. But the flailing economy has put projects on hold, leaving the city with a landscape full of holes.
3 December 2008 - 8:00am
Utah Stories

Stalled Project Gets Money, Beats Odds

Capital may be tough to find these days, but the developers of a major downtown mixed-use project in Boston's Downtown Crossing district have received financing.
3 October 2008 - 8:00am
Boston Globe
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