A 141,000-square-foot, transit-oriented mixed-use building on two city blocks in southeast Portland, Oregon. The mixed-income project is built on the former site of a dairy built in 1929. Today, the development features 85 apartments built atop street-level retail stores Including a restaurant, a hair salon, and a 20,000-square-foot grocery. The project was constructed as a “green” development and incorporates recycled materials, water-saving shower heads, extra insulation, and skylights. In addition, more than 90 percent of the construction debris on the site was recycled.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The first market-rate housing project in the city of Seattle to be certified through the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Environment and Energy Design (LEED) program, Alcyone is a 161-unit, seven-story apartment building located in the redeveloping South Lake Union neighborhood. Covering nearly half a block, the structure comprises a mix of loft apartments, studios, and one- and two-bedroom units. Alcyone was designed to conserve water in excess of code requirements by 25 percent, and to use 30 percent less energy than code-based standards for the equivalent of about $40,000 in yearly savings throughout the complex. In addition, 95 percent of the construction waste was diverted from landfills.
Located in Buffalo, New York, the Artspace Buffalo Lofts is an affordable housing project for artists that includes 60 live/work units and 9,795 square feet (910 sq m) of ground-floor commercial space. A renovated warehouse contains 36 of the units as well as the commercial space, the additional 24 residences are housed in six new buildings directly east of the rehabilitated structure. The commercial space provides a venue for residents and the greater Buffalo arts community to gather, network, and host events and showings.
A 190-acre, transit-oriented new community in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. Its pedestrian-oriented master plan provides for 1,834 dwelling units, including single-family homes, townhouses, accessory units, loft units, and apartments. The plan also includes a mixed-use town center with offices and housing above ground-floor retail. Additional parcels are dedicated to apartments and a shopping center.
Located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles’s historic core, the Old Bank District comprises three historic office buildings that were converted into 230 market-rate, rental loft apartments with 102,840 square feet (9,520 square meters) of ground-floor retail space. The first project completed under a city program designed to promote the development of downtown housing by relaxing building code requirements, the Old Bank District serves as a model for other adaptive use projects in Los Angeles. Redevelopment of the historic buildings along Fourth Street between Spring and Main streets has attracted national attention. Planning for the $33.5 million project began in 1998, and the loft conversions were completed in 2001.
