Rail-Volution in Real Estate
In San Francisco, a new streetcar line has been built to ferry riders to a 303-acre project set on an old rail yard site. With 6,000 planned residences,...
Wanted: Mixed-Use Experience
Despite the buzz surrounding new and proposed mixed-use projects, the product niche remains a fledgling and untested formula for long-term financial success....
Sweet Auburn Rebirth
By the late 1990s, Atlanta's Sweet Auburn district had soured. The area, named a National Historical Landmark in 1976 for its role and significance in the civil rights movement and African-American history, suffered from decades of urban decay and neglect....
How Mixed-Use Developers Can Avoid Tripping Up
Mixed-use has been hailed as the greatest idea in commercial real estate since the debut of the enclosed mall. But increasingly, this mega-hyped product type has become more difficult to execute...
Savannah Renaissance
Developers are betting $800 million that shoppers, workers and new residents will be drawn to a 54-acre site in the historic city of Savannah, on whose streets Civil War generals, cotton merchants, and the writer Flannery O'Connor once strolled...
Mixed-Use Development Wave In Baton Rouge
Largely spared by Hurricane Katrina, metro Baton Rouge has seen its pre-storm population of 720,000 swell by an estimated 5% to 8% a year and a half after the catastrophic event...
Biloxi Developers Roll the Dice
A city hammered by Hurricane Katrina is feeling the effects of a casino-led real estate boom. In the wake of the devastating storm that roared throughlegislation has been passed that allows Mississippi-licensed gaming operators to build casinos within 800 feet of the shore...
It Takes A Transit Village
Cities that once resisted mixed-use projects are now clamoring for the modern mosaic known as the transit-oriented development (TOD), both as a tool for economic growth and a weapon to combat sprawl and congestion...
Arena-Led Urban Revivals
When the 18,000-seat Sprint Center opens in Kansas City next year, local officials hope that the arena will give downtown an economic jolt. After all, other large cities have used arena-led redevelopment campaigns to revive blighted districts....
