One of the largest mixed-use projects ever attempted in the United Kingdom (U.K.), Brindleyplace is a master-planned development situated between the Birmingham and Brindley Loop canals in Birmingham, England, approximately 185 kilometers (115 miles) northwest of London. This seven-hectare (17-acre) project features office, retail, residential, and cultural uses surrounding public squares.
Newly constructed and inventive affordable rental housing built in East Hollywood, California. A local developer and nonprofit made use of a vacant lot and city funding to provide housing for large, low-income families.
A large-scale, multiuse redevelopment project on a former major railroad yard of the JR Group (formerly Japanese National Railways) near downtown Tokyo. The project includes two 14-story towers comprising 160,000 square feet of residential space, 900,000 square feet of retail space, 1.5 million square feet of office space, a 384-room hotel, and a cultural center featuring a 2,000-seat concert hall. The project required the relocation of more than 150 residents, businesses, building owners, and tenants. The development was executed through a complicated union of former residents, businesses, future major office tenants, a department store, the local government, and financial institutions.
A 3,500-acre master-planned community designed to meet the housing and recreational needs of the swelling ranks of retirees and second-home buyers, located just south of Wilmington, North Carolina, on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. An additional 2,500 acres can be developed over the next eight to ten years. Recreational amenities include a private beach and three 18-hole golf courses, an additional nine holes are being built at an existing course, and another 18-hole course is planned. Home sites range in size from one-quarter acre to one acre. Lot price depends on the location, with single-family interior lots being the least expensive and waterfront home sites commanding the highest prices. Strictly enforced architectural design covenants ensure that homes conform to established community standards. Customer service extends to the homebuilding process at an on-site center where homebuyers can explore options for both home exteriors and interiors.
A 1.7-acre park located atop a seven-level underground parking garage in the heart of Boston’s financial district. The park and garage replaced an existing deteriorated above-grade parking structure. A public/ private partnership, involving the city and property owners and tenants around the park and garage, was formed to develop the project, which was privately financed.
The Gateway Quarter, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the product of a public/private partnership between a nonprofit development corporation and four private developers. The multiphase project, encompassing a 25-square-block area of a formerly distressed neighborhood, has created 224 for-sale and rental residences with 55,000 square feet (5,110 sq m) of ground-floor commercial space in a variety of buildings–both newly constructed as well as renovated–immediately north of the central business district. By completion, planned in 2010, the project will feature 400 residential units and more than 72,000 square feet (6,689 sq m) of commercial space.
Highland Homes and Highland Gardens (HHHG) are two components of a 160-unit mixed-income U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development HOPE VI project that replaced an obsolete public housing project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Highland Gardens is a 114-unit apartment complex for elderly and disabled people. Highland Homes consists of 46 single-family residences, 26 of which will be public housing rentals, the remaining units are for sale at market rates. All of these houses are modular and were constructed on site. Both components of HHHG incorporate numerous universal design elements and environmentally friendly features. Among the most notable green features are the stormwater facilities, which include a green roof on Highland Gardens.
A 55,000-square-foot shopping center located in the neighborhood of Newark. The Pathmark supermarket, which anchors the center, is the first to be built in the central ward since civil disturbances in the summer of 1967. Pathmark owns one-third of the joint-venture market and operates it under a management agreement between Supermarkets General, the parent company of Pathmark, and New Community Corporation (NCC), the nonprofit developer and sole owner of the shopping center. Franchises of several national retail establishments have located in the center.
Riverhouse is a 32-story, 262-unit residential condominium building located on the northern tip of Battery Park City, which itself lies at the southwestern edge of Manhattan. The units in this luxury high rise come in 40 different floor plans that comprise from one to five bedrooms. Designed to be environmentally friendly, this LEED-registered building features a rooftop photovoltaic array that produces 10 percent of the structure’s energy. Also, heating and cooling are provided by heat pumps, and 75 percent of available surface area is landscaped with an on-site system that captures and filters 50 percent of all rainfall. Furthermore, most of the construction materials come from within 500 miles (805 km) and 80 percent of them contain recycled components.
Built on the site of a former penitentiary, the Arena District in downtown Columbus, Ohio, is a 75-acre (30.35-hectare) entertainment center with the 685,000-square-foot (63,639-square-meter) Nationwide Arena serving as its anchor. The arena is home to the National Hockey League’s Columbus Blue Jackets and the Arena Football League’s Columbus Destroyers. Developed to help transform the area into a 24/7 neighborhood, supportive retail and restaurants, a movie theater, office space, and residential units constitute the rest of the district in an architectural style that blends historic buildings and facades with new construction. The Arena District is the result of a public/private partnership among Nationwide Realty Investors, the Dispatch Printing Company, and the city of Columbus.