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downtown revitalization
A proposed $2 billion megaproject would expand the footprint of the ongoing reinvention of Downtown Los Angeles and its surrounding neighborhoods.
Los Angeles Times
Billions of dollars in investment and thousands of new residential units later, Milwaukee is ready to update the plan for its downtown.
Urban Milwaukee
Tony Hsieh, who achieved international fame as head both of Zappos and the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, died in November. Several articles made an account of the Downtown Project's track record.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
A debate common in growing cities around the country is taking place in Atlanta in answer to the question of how much support private developers need from the public.
Curbed Atlanta
The market and construction costs are taking a toll on development ambitions in Detroit.
Crain's Detroit Business
A new chapter of Detroit's development history is ready to begin, as six iconic projects head toward the finish line.
Detroit Free Press
Cities in flyover country are facing new redevelopment challenges as companies relocate from costly coastal cities. In St. Louis, downtown revitalization has also brought plans to tackle blight, and the consequences for residents could be immense.
CityLab
Downtown Milwaukee is getting makeover, from high-profile new buildings on the skyline to ambitious adaptive reuse projects and an emerging entertainment district.
Curbed
Downtown revitalization can be a small town planning priority too.
Next City
Thousands of news residents and apartment units, along with almost a billion dollars of development investments, arrived in Downtown Minneapolis in 2017.
Star Tribune
A Washington Post feature analyzes the changing skylines of cities from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
The Washington Post
The Arizona Republic spent the week fêting the "rebirth" of Downtown Phoenix, covering the evolution of the urban core of this sprawling metropolis from several angles.
Arizona Republic
In exchange for generous public subsidies, Illitch Holdings, owner and developer of the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, promised large-scale economic development.
Detroit Free Press
East Town, also known as Downtown East, used to be "weed strewn lots and abandoned rail yards."
Star Tribune
Charlotte's North Tryon Vision Plan is "among the more ambitious long-term urban planning projects in American cities," this article. Released in 2015, the plan's work is not done.
Next City
A series of new investments in the civic realm aren’t enough—some in Wheaton, Maryland want the community to catch up with its neighbors in providing a walkable town center.
Bethesda Magazine
After decades of planning, the city hopes several huge developments will draw millenials and empty-nesters.
Curbed
If Ford Motor Co. goes through with a plan to move into the old Michigan Central Depot, it would mark a new phase of the rebirth of Detroit's urban core.
The Detroit News
Researchers from Arizona State University have produced a new working paper that examines efforts to attract and retain Millennials to downtown neighborhoods in Houston and Phoenix.
The Urban Edge
Like many cities before it, Shreveport's downtown is transforming through the renovation of historic buildings.
Shreveport Times
