Mixed-Use Developments Archive
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Creating nature with an urban village in Seattle: This is apparently Seattle’s first transit-oriented development (TOD). If it gets better

Austin’s “The Triangle” sets standard for town center retail: The vast majority of large-scale mixed-use development projects in the past have

Ten principles for infill in natural cultural districts: What’s the key to revitalizing a downtown and/or neighborhood via urban development?

Creative village in Orlando?: What do you do with an abandoned city-owned 68-acre parking lot and

Sustainable urban village block rises in Ohio: Regular readers may be familiar with the East College Street Project, a

Creative cluster urban village in Wales: Looks like the creative industries will have a vibrant home in Swansea

Living above the big box: Sometimes a giant supermarket or big box store like Home Depot coming

Redefining what a creative building is: Would you live, work or play here? For many creatives, the answer

New old canal loft district for creative economy: The City of Lowell, Massachusetts is committed to growing its creative economy.

Crowdsource ’64 to 2250′ walkable density?: It’s been well documented recently that suburbia is on the decline, and

Shopping mall turned walkable neighborhood: In the 1960s Holladay (within the Salt Lake City metropolitan area) made

Small town absorbing growth in the center: What happens when your population doubles from 10,000 in 2000 to 20,000

The atrium lofts that helped transform a city: The development firm Urban Splash’s pioneering founder, Tom Bloxham was profiled in

A vision becomes reality in Pasadena: Way back in November 2005 we published the projected vision of the

KC creatives get what they want – attainable downtown lofts: It’s been kind of an oxymoron – attainably-priced urban lofts. With the

Parking garage transformed into residential complex: It’s a sign of the times – a parking garage in Los

An artist/musician ‘community in a building’, Syracuse, NY: There are numerous cities and neighborhoods with a reputation for attracting creatives,

Pasadena’s urban village a result of city’s vision: A year and a half ago we profiled Pasadena’s Central District Specific

Rockville, MD really laying on the urban fabric: Rockville, MD may not have a reputation for being a creative urban

Reinventing the ‘burbs, sort of: The civic leaders of St. Louis Park, an inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis,

Durham turns the corner from industrial to information economy: Yesterday’s entry profiled how a French town evolved from the industrial age

A rising place in a rising district: Does your town have a manufacturing district that just feels very 1960s?

NY Times – What did three college graduates have to do with a $15 million urban village?: That’s right, they’re the developers, and four years later, they’re in the

From deteriorated industrial center to stylish public attraction: As the Netherlands shifts from industry to knowledge-based economy, they certainly know

Carlsbad, CA sure to attract the creative class…: …IF they continue to support more developments like Poinsettia Commons, a $55

Urban modular housing on a sliver of a site: While not exactly fitting in height-wise with the surrounding buildings, developer Scott

First a lumberyard is transformed into an urban village. What next – a pub?!: Most people haven’t exactly heard of Collingswood, New Jersey. It borders Camden,

Jumpstarting a manufacturing town with an urban village for creatives: Up until the middle of the 20th century, the economy of Easthampton,
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