Daegu City Center is a 23-story integrated commercial center with an upscale retail mall, a luxury hotel, and nightlife venues in Daegu, Korea. Once a failed discount retail and low-end office complex, the building was redeveloped and repositioned by Doran Capital Partners, creating a financially viable lifestyle retail/entertainment destination and a 203-room hotel in an area in need of retail and commercial options. One of the largest commercial buildings in central Daegu, the 86,847-square-meter (934,813-sf) Daegu City Center has returned economic vitality and retail activity to the downtown core.
More than 30 years after it was originally built, the Landmark still stands out as a most prominent upscale retail center and office address in Hong Kong. The Landmark Scheme, a HK$1.64 billion (US$210 million) upgrade completed in November 2006, has reinforced the prominence of this commercial complex that occupies a one-hectare (2.5 ac) site in Hong Kong’s central business district (known as Central Hong Kong, or Central).
Designed to resemble a downtown that has evolved over time, Victoria Gardens is a new, pedestrian-oriented town center located 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles in Rancho Cucamonga, a town at the heart of California’s Inland Empire. This project–the result of a public/private partnership among Forest City, the Lewis Group of Companies, and the Rancho Cucamonga Redevelopment Agency–comprises department stores, shops, restaurants, a movie theater, a performing arts center, a library, and 55,000 square feet (5,100 square meters) of office space. Intended to serve as a new downtown for Rancho Cucamonga, the completed town center will also include a mix of 500 residential units.
