Urban Development

Federal regulators have cleared two national banks to develop office and hotel properties -- actions long barred by the Treasury Department. What does this imply for the development environment?

January 20, 2006 - National Real Estate Investor

Across the nation, developers and city officials warn that weakening eminent domain could undermine rehabilitation of cities.

January 20, 2006 - The New York Times

Two of Boston's leading suburban developers are partnering up to build a transit oriented development project in suburban Westwood.

January 19, 2006 - The Boston Globe

As real estate prices continue to skyrocket, the South Bronx is experiencing a sudden influx of new residents.

January 18, 2006 - The New York Times

The L.A. hospital needs to sell; developers want to build housing; preservationists want it saved; former residents want affordable housing to make up in part for earlier urban renewal on the site.

January 18, 2006 - The Los Angeles Times

From a private art wing with steel doors that drop from the ceiling to a 70-foot saltwater swimming pool, these homes have it all -- for around $50 million.

January 17, 2006 - The Wall Street Journal

The number of skyscrapers to be built in each city hints at the complexities of different development patterns.

January 17, 2006 - Los Angeles Downtown News

Harold Meyerson argues that thanks to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, transportation and land use in the City of Angels now focuses on the public sector, not the private realm, as the Mayor takes on a strong central identity heretofore lacking.

January 17, 2006 - The Washington Post

They seemed like a good idea at the time, but planners now find skywalks drain life from the streetscape below.

January 16, 2006 - Associated Press

A noted builder backs down in Las Vegas as construction costs wipe out margins. Is it smart business, or the start of something bigger?

January 13, 2006 - The Slatin Report

The fight over what, where and when to build -- or demolish -- in New Orleans gets muddier by the day.

January 12, 2006 - The Slatin Report

Mary Newsom, a Knight Fellow and editor for the Charlotte Observer, responds to criticism that New Urbanism is elitist.

January 11, 2006 - The Naked City

How Nassau County, New York, is trying to reinvent its "old suburb" status and serve as a model for suburban evolution.

January 11, 2006 - The New York Times

Grants, loans, and expertise propel a coastal community, building on considerable funding from Michigan's brownfield redevelopment program.

January 10, 2006 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Without the Suburbs, our parents and grandparents would have paid rent most of their lives, and the equity that so much of the American Dream depends on would simply not have developed, suggests Wendell Cox.

January 9, 2006 - Demographia / PA Township News

The City of New Orleans has started bulldozing buildings in the Lower 9th Ward -- many still containing unidentified remains -- without informing homeowners.

January 7, 2006 - CommonDreams

Planning Magazine examines how cities are encouraging multifamily projects and higher densities.

January 5, 2006 - Planning Magazine

School officials in Oregon are learning a thing or two from a prototype uber-green classroom near Salem, which uses a large skylight and other technologies to enhance and regulate the natural light coming into the space.

January 5, 2006 - The Oregonian

Is the government's focus on brownfield development a distraction from other toxic sites that are more dangerous, but have less commercial appeal?

January 3, 2006 - The Boston Globe

Depsite having the most concentrated population of the homeless in the western US, $10 billion in investment is transforming gritty downtown Los Angeles into a "Manhattan of the West Coast."

January 3, 2006 - The Washington Post