Bradburn is a $220 million, 123-acre (49.8-hectare), mixed-use, master-planned new urbanist community in Westminster, Colorado—an inner suburb of 107,000 residents located on the northwest boundary of Denver in Adams County. When completed, Bradburn will feature more than 800 residences—275 single-family homes, 150 townhouses, 310 rental apartments in Bradburn Row, and 33 live/work units—along with 108 apartments sitting above 154,830 square feet (14,384 square meters) of retail space arranged in a main street format. In addition, there will be 29,000 square feet (2,694 square meters) of office space, a preschool, a church, and 16 acres (6.5 hectares) of open space. Comprising three neighborhoods and a village core with shops, restaurants, offices, and residences, Bradburn represents Westminster’s first implementation of new urbanist zoning to create a compact, walkable mixed-use neighborhood.
The transformation of a site that had been a garbage dump for most of the 20th century into one of Britain’s most successful office parks. Of the 416-acre site, 141 acres are devoted to the business park, with more than 2 million square feet of office space already built. The remainder of the site includes a regional park with playing fields, riding trails, and an 18-hole golf course. The transformation was accomplished through what was at the time the largest earth movement process in Europe, and it resulted in an attractive, financially successful business park and a valued amenity for the surrounding community.
Garrison Woods, a 71-hectare (175-acre) master-planned community, is the first phase of redevelopment of a decommissioned military base in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The infill project is located ten minutes from downtown and features 1,600 housing units, 6,503 square meters (70,000 square feet) of retail space, and five hectares (12 acres) of open space. Developed by Canada Lands Company (CLC), a federal crown corporation, the compact, pedestrian-friendly community was designed according to new urbanist principles and achieves a density of 25.2 units per hectare (ten units per acre).
An environmentally sensitive, 2,400-acre master-planned community located along the ecologically rich Gulf Coast of southwest Florida. The primary- and second-home community offers single-family, villa, and coach and carriage homes and high-rise condominiums. Five private championship golf courses, two golf clubhouses, 18 tennis courts, three waterfront parks, a gulf beach park, a marina, and miles of secluded walking and biking paths are among the community’s offerings. To preserve and enhance the area’s natural, historical, and archaeological features was the guiding principle in developing Bonita Bay. The community’s intimate neighborhoods were planned around the area’s natural topography and vegetation. One-half of the community will remain open space, and at buildout the community will have fewer than 3,300 housing units, far less than the 9,240 units approved in the master plan.
Multifamily rental housing being constructed as part of a master-planned new urbanist community north of Dallas, Texas. When complete, the community will include office, retail, and residential uses.
Developed by Transcontinental Properties, Inc., Lake Las Vegas Resort is a resort community located ten miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, that is centered around a 320-acre (129.5-hectare) manmade lake. In addition to the lake and other open space, this 3,592-acre (1,454-hectare) project features two luxury hotels, several golf courses, a town center with shops, restaurants, and a casino, and an array of housing types–ranging from single-family homes, townhouses, and condominium units to fractional-ownership flats–that total 8,900 residences. Conscious of its impact on the environment, the community uses lake water to irrigate the golf courses and common-area plantings and encourages the use of nonautomobile transportation.
Lakeside is a lake-oriented, 350-unit residential development located in Buena Park, an incorporated Orange County, California, city. The 70-acre site originally was planned for development as an industrial site but faced opposition from nearby residents. Development as a residential community presented the developer with several obstacles Including the site’s location within a floodplain and its proximity to a municipal airport and to an existing industrial site. Using the fill created by constructing a lake, the developer was able to raise the site out of the floodplain while creating a valuable community amenity. Use of the on-site fill resulted in significant cost savings. The community offers a range of price points and amenities Including a boat dock and opportunity for fishing. The developer worked closely with neighbors and the local government to mitigate concerns resulting from the site’s deficiencies.
Nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains near Seattle, Washington, Issaquah Highlands is a new 2,300-acre (931-hectare) high-density master-planned community. In this new urbanist–inspired project, only 725 acres (293.5 hectares) of land are devoted to residential and/or commercial development. Most of the remainder is preserved in parks and open spaces. The community mixes single-family homes with townhouses and multifamily buildings. At buildout, the project is expected to have a population of 8,000, with 3,875,000 square feet (360,000 square meters) of commercial and retail space planned by 2010.
Greenbelt is a mixed-use development featuring restaurants, entertainment venues, shopping outlets, and housing located within Ayala Center, a 36.8-hectare (91-acre) mixed-use complex in Makati City, one of Manila’s premier business districts. Built during the 1970s, Greenbelt 1 offers convenience and food services for daytime office workers. In addition to its 28 two- and three-story rental units, Greenbelt 2 was designed as a place for “power lunches” and high-end dining. Greenbelt 4 is an upscale retail destination and Greenbelt 3, the most prominent component of the project, is aimed at professionals in their 20s to 40s with food, shopping, and entertainment options. Greenbelt 3’s four-level complex has two distinct faces. The street-facing facade has a unified row of shopfronts, while the interior faces a park with its curvilinear form that incorporates public pathways terraced up to outdoor seating and dining areas for restaurants and cafés.
A 375,912-square-foot facility comprising two industrial warehouse buildings, developed by Catellus Development Corporation in 1991. The concrete tilt-up facility is strategically located near the San Jose and San Francisco airports, making it an ideal distribution hub for West Coast markets. The facility is designed for high-speed, high-volume distribution (high-throughput distribution) rather than storage, and it caters to companies seeking just-in-time delivery to businesses and consumers. The facility was purchased by AMB Property Corporation in 1993. AMB’s Customer Alliance Group targets high-growth dotcom companies as tenants and helps them overcome their logistical challenges through specialized facility design and leasing terms.
