Paseo Colorado mixes retail space, restaurants, entertainment uses, and housing next to Old Pasadena in Pasadena, California. The three-square-block urban village replaces an earlier enclosed mall built as part of a 1970s redevelopment effort. The project includes 56 retail shops, a full-line Macy’s department store, seven destination restaurants, six quick-service cafes, a health club, a day spa, a supermarket, a 14-screen cinema, and 387 rental units.
Red Hawk at Wingfield Springs is a 1,660-acre (671-hectare), master-planned golf course community located in the Spanish Springs Valley between the Sierra Nevada and Pah Pah mountain ranges, seven miles (11 kilometers) northeast of Reno, Nevada. The $120 million project, developed by Loeb Enterprises, LLC, features two Audubon International’ “certified championship golf courses and 2,000 homes. Red Hawk is built on the former ranch of one of Nevada’s most infamous mining and banking tycoons, George Wingfield. The character of an Old West ranch is maintained throughout the community, with one of Wingfield’s houses integrated into the Village Center complex that features a 15,000-square-foot (1,393-square-meter) clubhouse with a pro shop and a restaurant (with meeting and banquet facilities), a golf academy and fitting center with a driving range, and a swim and fitness center. When conceived in 1993, Red Hawk at Wingfield Springs was one of the first master-planned developments in Sparks, Nevada. Due to pent-up demand for a golf course community, the project sold 250 of its nearly 400 custom home sites within the first two years of development.
Winter Park Village is a 525,000-square-foot (48,773-square-meter) mixed-use lifestyle center located on the site of a failed regional shopping mall in Winter Park, Florida, an affluent older suburb of Orlando. The project, which is home to a lineup of high-end national retailers and restaurants, features 350,000 square feet (32,515 square meters) of retail space, including a 20-screen cinema, 115,000 square feet (10,684 square meters) of offices, and 52 loft apartments. The planners’ and developer’s primary objective for this redevelopment project was to establish an urban sense of place where a typical 1960s-era shopping mall had been. As of December 2006 Winter Park Village continues to evolve, with structured parking and additional residential, retail, and office developments in the works.
A 243-acre (98.3-hectare) residential development located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, six miles (9.6 kilometers) east of Charleston. With a master plan inspired by traditional neighborhood design concepts, the development features a pedestrian-friendly, relatively high-density environment. At buildout, it will include more than 750 custom-built single-family homes as well as community facilities and a small-scale commercial area near the entrance. The classic “Low-country” style of the region serves as I’On’s architectural reference. The “I’On Code” a set of simple architectural details, as well as an architectural primer and a set of community patterns, encourages flexible conformance to this model. The community also pays attention to the natural environment, with tree-lined streets, natural open areas, marshes, lakes, and recreational facilities for residents.
Seeking to create a town center, the city of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, entered into a public/private partnership with TOLD Development Company to develop Excelsior and Grand, a $150 million mixed-use project on 16 acres (6.5 hectares) that contains apartments, condominiums, retail space, and a town green that links to an existing city park. Designed by Elness Swenson Graham Architects, Inc. (ESG), this four-phase project will consist of 86,000 square feet (7,990 square meters) of retail space, 337 apartments, and approximately 330 for-sale units. Already completed, the first two phases comprise all of the aforementioned apartments, 124 condominiums, and over 65,000 square feet (6,093 square meters) of retail space. Furthermore, it provides the city of St. Louis Park, a first-ring suburb west of Minneapolis, with a pedestrian-friendly downtown.
Across 20 square blocks on downtown Kansas City’s west side, DST Systems developed an urban corporate campus that includes 38 buildings, 2.3 million square feet (213,670 square meters) of office space, and 7,495 parking spaces. Through a combination of historic rehabilitation and infill development, DST has created high-quality office space that accommodates the company’s high-tech needs. Key to project development was the incorporation of adequate parking for DST employees, which is also available for other nearby uses. DST also set aside 30 percent of its tax increment financing revenues to encourage other area property and business owners to invest in streetscape and facade improvements.
A 202-unit, single-family detached neotraditional community development by Davidson College to provide a mix of affordable housing for college faculty and staff and market rate housing for the general public. It incorporates outstanding design features Including historical exterior floorplans, various lot sizes, and a variety of purchase options and financing mechanisms.
Conversion of an 1868 warehouse in San Francisco’s South Beach neighborhood to 66 condominium loft units. After fires left little more than the brick shell standing, a new steel and glass structure was constructed within the perimeter of the old, with two-story units stacked two high over ground-floor parking.
A 1.6 million-square-foot (150,000-square-meter) industrial area along the harborfront in Copenhagen, Denmark, that is currently being transformed into a new urban development that at buildout will include between 800 and 1,200 residential units and almost 10.5 million square feet (975,000 square meters) of commercial space. The project not only is an innovative example of how a significant postindustrial, brownfield remediation was accomplished through a process that was self-financing, but also is projected to net a handsome financial return of approximately DKK225 million, or approximately US$32 million.
A 347,750-square-foot urban entertainment/retail center occupying two city blocks along Denver’s well-known 16th Street Mall. The mix of tenants in the three- and four-level open-air center includes a 15-screen, 80,000-square-foot United Artists cinema, a 25,000-square-foot Virgin Megastore, a 12,000-square-foot Hard Rock Cafe, the last NikeTown to be built in the United State, a 10,000-square-foot Wolfgang Puck Cafe, an 18,000-square-foot Maggiano’s, the Corner Bakery, and other fine restaurants, plus a host of apparel and specialty retailers. Composed of four separate buildings linked by pedestrian walkways and covered escalators, the project features an understated design that opens on the street, showcases its distinctive tenants, and blends easily with its urban surroundings. A $1.5 million computerized electronic sign dubbed the “Great Wall” spans the two city blocks and serves to connect the separate components of the project. The sign also creates an icon for downtown Denver.