Morgan Woods is a 60-unit workforce housing project in the resort community of Edgartown, Massachusetts, on Martha’s Vineyard. The developer, the Community Builders, in a partnership with the leaders of Edgartown, was able to create affordable rental options for the town’s workforce through a creative land deal, modular construction, and progressive zoning. The 21-building residential community stands as a model for other resort towns, which often encounter affordable housing shortages.
An 812,000-square-foot retail/entertainment center located about 2.5 miles from Disneyland in Orange, California. Although the center, which has drawn more than 12 million visitors in its first year of operation, has a racetrack-shaped circulation pattern, its design is meant to resemble a city grid featuring two principal parallel “streets” connected by smaller streets. The project is anchored by a 30-theater AMC Cineplex at the center of the site. An ever-changing choreography of signs, lighting, and special effects helps to keep the project fresh and exciting.
Formerly a vacant, distressed office building, Eleven80 is a 316-unit luxury residential tower located in downtown Newark, New Jersey. Upon acquisition, the developer–Cogswell Realty Group–found the 75-year-old, 35-story edifice in a nearly irreparable state: renovation required significant work on the building’s structure, new building systems, and a restored facade. As the first major residential construction in downtown Newark in four decades, the project involved seven years of planning, seven separate sources of funding, and a lengthy approvals process., , Founded in 1996, Cogswell Realty Group is a full-service real estate company that owns or manages over 4 million square feet (371,600 sq m) throughout the New York metropolitan area. In addition to Eleven80, Cogswell Realty has extensive redevelopment plans for properties it owns throughout the 28-acre (11.3-ha) redevelopment area just north of the commercial core, cementing the developer’s stake in the renaissance of downtown Newark.
Comprising 119 Federal-style brick townhouses on a seven-acre (2.84-ha) site, Inverness Square is located on a former brownfield close to a regional commuter rail line. One of the first of its kind in Murray, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, the new urbanist infill community has helped revitalize a formerly blighted area through environmental remediation and enhanced streetscapes. In addition, the project, developed by Hamlet Homes, was intended as workforce housing with opening prices starting at $140,000.
Since the 1950s, the intersection of First Avenue and University Boulevard has been Denver’s premier shopping location. Between December 2001 and March 2005, the Nichols Partnership Inc., redeveloped 9.5 acres (3.85 ha) at the northeastern quadrant of the intersection, which had held freestanding Sears and Whole Foods stores and a surface parking lot, as Clayton Lane, a mixed-use project that combines 710,000 square feet (65,959 m2) of hotel, retail, office, and residential uses anchored by a new private street.
Located in Tigard, Oregon, a community where the number of renter households living in overcrowded conditions increased by 170 percent between 1990 and 2000, Oleson Woods Apartments provides three- and four-bedroom townhouse-style apartments to families who make less than 46 percent of the area median income. Many green features have been incorporated into the development, including energy-efficient appliances, low-VOC (volatile organic compound) finishes, and extra insulation. In addition to the six buildings, which contain 32 units, the 3.15-acre (1.27-hectare) site is home to a restored wetland. Fifty species of plants and animals–some of which are threatened–have been spotted on the site and over 200 trees have been planted there.
Comprising 15 townhouses as well as 396 studios and one- and two-bedroom units in two high rises, Radio City provides residential ownership opportunities in the predominantly rental market of Toronto, Ontario’s Church Street neighborhood. Because the neighborhood is commonly referred to as Toronto’s “gay village,” the project’s marketing plan targeted gay men. Part of a public/private partnership, Radio City shares the site with Canada’s National Ballet School (NBS). Developer Context Development Inc., bought the site in 2000 and sold half of it to the NBS for CAN$1 in exchange for height and density bonuses from the city.
Bayshore Town Center is a redevelopment of a traditional enclosed shopping mall into a mixed-use town center consisting of over 1.2 million square feet (111,480 sq m) of retail, office, and residential space. Part new construction, part renovation, the project required extensive environmental remediation and faced a complicated land assembly process. Located in the northern Milwaukee suburb of Glendale, Wisconsin, Bayshore Town Center was developed by Columbus, Ohio-based Steiner + Associates in partnership with the city of Glendale.
SouthSide Works is a 37.2-acre (15-hectare) mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented urban village on a brownfield redevelopment site located in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood. It lies south of the Monongahela River and just 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) from the city’s central business district. The project comprises 288,143 square feet (26,769 square meters) of retail and restaurants, 524,860 square feet (48,761 square meters) of office space, 83 apartments, and a ten-screen cinema, all of which are oriented around a central square and landscaped open space. Future phases will include a hotel, additional multifamily buildings, additional office buildings, an outdoor performance venue, and a destination restaurant and brewery.
The Bar Harbor Grand Hotel is a 70-room hotel in Bar Harbor, a resort town on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine and a popular destination for thousands of visitors who come each year to nearby Acadia National Park. An infill development close to downtown, the hotel visually complements the surrounding pedestrian-scale commercial area. The property—new construction that is architecturally modeled after one of Bar Harbor’s 19th-century “golden age” hotels—combines historic ambience with modern amenities.
