The John Stewart Co. is asking the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit agency for permission to move 68 senior housing units from the “transit village” on SMART’s property to the adjacent Cannery project Stewart also owns.
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Chris Leinberger was blunt in his assessment of the proposed Fuller Road Station: If the parking structure is built as proposed, in 20 years it will be torn down. Speaking at a forum on transit-oriented development, Leinberger said current plans for the joint UM/city of Ann Arbor project do a good job of incorporating different kinds of transit, from bikes and buses to perhaps, eventually, commuter rail.
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A 165-acre suburban industrial site that has been dormant for at least a year could become a mixed-use development in years to come. Orlando-based New Broad Street Cos. says it has a contract with Detroit-based General Motors to buy its former automotive plant in suburban Doraville.
Read more →The City & County of Honolulu presents transit-oriented development (TOD) as housing, retail and other facilities within a half-mile radius of a transit station.
Benefits are obvious: Commuting workers walk to stations and leave cars at home; retailers gain consumers from the transit system; and students at some campuses will not have to worry about parking.
Other [...]
At one level, transit-oriented development seems like a no-brainer.
Clustering condos and office space and stores, all around a MetroLink stop. Getting people out of their cars and onto the trains. Creating dense new chunks of urbanism. “Smart growth” for the 21st century.
And in a few places around MetroLink’s 37 stations, that has happened. There are [...]
Plans call for a transit-oriented, mixed-use project downtown
Plans to turn the Laurel MARC station into a mixed-used development moved forward last week when the Maryland Department of Transportation announced it had awarded exclusive negotiating rights to a Rockville developer.
Del T. Adams, manager of development services for MDOT, said Patriot Realty submitted an unsolicited bid to [...]
Washington, D.C. ranks as the top market in the United States for real estate investment and development, which, in the current economic environment, means it is the least troubled. So says the 2010 version of Emerging Trends in Real Estate®, released this week at Urban Land Institute’s Annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
The widely anticipated [...]
The debut of Sound Transit’s light rail line already has been the impetus for plans to build new clusters of high-density development around transit stops, giving future residents quick access to reliable transportation.
With 1.7 million more residents expected to be in the Seattle metropolitan area by 2040, some think “transit-oriented development” is the solution to [...]
As you get off the train, you’re surrounded with a bounty of amenities. You head to an Italian restaurant and meet a friend for dinner. Afterward, you stop at the bank and a boutique. You then top the evening off with a Starbucks coffee and head home to your cozy condo.
This downtown lifestyle in the [...]
In the same way that the interstate highway system drove development around the region over the past half-century, mass transit could be a defining force in shaping the future of Central Maryland, according to a report to be issued Wednesday by the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance.
Projects planned and built with access to public transportation – [...]
