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.
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.
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.
Replacing an outdated enclosed mall, Bullring Center’s three shopping corridors and two buildings were designed to restore the historic links among the public squares, markets, and iconic St. Martin’s Church in downtown Birmingham, England. Anchored by two department stores, the project comprises over 92,102 square meters (991,000 square feet) of retail space in both enclosed and open-air configurations.
Lowry is a 1,866-acre (755-hectare) master-planned community being developed on the site of the former Lowry Air Force Base in the center of metropolitan Denver. When completed in 2009, Lowry will feature approximately 4,500 new homes and 86 acres (35 hectares) of commercial uses–including 1.8 million square feet (167,220 square meters) of new office space and 130,000 square feet (12,077 square meters) of retail space–as well as an educational campus and 800 acres (324 hectares) of open space and recreational uses. Eighty percent complete as of early 2006, Lowry already has accomplished its goal of becoming an economic generator for the region. The community, which has moved faster from closing to reuse than any other U.S. military facility, is a national model for base reuse.
