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Twin Cities: LRT Could Boost West Bank Development
Minnesota Daily
As construction moves forward on the Central Corridor Light-Rail line, city and county officials are exploring how the track could boost development near the future West Bank station...
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(July 30, 2010)
Bay Area: Creating More Livable Communities
San Francisco Chronicle
Tired of long commutes, heart-stopping gas bills and brown air? Private developers, local governments and the state of California are working on an answer. It's called infill development. It strives to build the next generation of California's housing in neighborhoods that are well-planned, walkable, have parks and green spaces, are near jobs and public transportation, and have shopping close enough that you don't have to start up the minivan to get a quart of milk. Read On
(July 30, 2010)
Quote of the Day
WSBTV Atlanta
"As the new development came in, you weren't kind of leaving people who had been there forever in the dirt,"
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(July 28, 2010)
Blogosphere: More Space for Parking than Offices
Streetsblog NYC
Another city, another would-be transit-oriented development undermined by a glut of parking. This time it's Newton, Massachusetts, where plans are underway to build 420,000 square feet of office space, 60,000 square feet of retail, and 190 units of housing at the Riverside terminus of Boston's Green Line, the highest-ridership light rail line in the country...
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(July 27, 2010)
Santa Rosa: Cannery Developer Wants Senior Housing
Press Democrat
The developer of a transit-oriented project at Railroad Square wants to shift the location of affordable housing units in an attempt to jump-start a companion project. 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...
(July 27, 2010)
Dallas: Krusee, Polikov Chosen for Value Capture Study
Dallas Morning News
The North Central Texas Council of Governments' executive board hired a four-person team that includes a retired lawmaker and a leading urban planner from North Texas to develop a plan to fund the Cotton Belt commuter rail line, a 62-mile corridor officials hope could be open to service by 2013...
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(July 27, 2010)
Blogosphere: Lake Street Station Plan
Joe Urban
I recently participated in the creation of a master plan vision for a prominent transit-oriented development site at the southwest quadrant of Lake Street and Hiawatha Avenue. The master plan vision/development concept is a collaboration with the Corcoran Neighborhood Organization, the BKV Group and a team of developers. I represented my firm, Joe Urban, Inc., in largely a market research role....
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(July 27, 2010)
Maryland: Development Deal for Carrollton Metro
Washington Post
Metro's board of directors approved an agreement Thursday that will allow Maryland and the transit authority to develop 41 acres they own around the New Carrollton Metro station, a first step in transforming the area into an urban center...
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(July 23, 2010)
Houston: Metro Cancels Contract, Rehires Firm
Houston Metro
The Metropolitan Transit Authority board canceled a contract Thursday that gave a real estate firm commissions for all of the agency's land deals - even deals the firm had no part in closing. It then rehired the firm under terms that would pay it only for deals on which it works....
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(July 23, 2010)
TOD State & Local Policy Matrix
Reconnecting America is creating a matrix of funding programs and policies at the state,regional, and local level that provide assistance to developers in building transit-oriented developments. Bill is helping to complete the matrix by early August, and then help Sasha and Alia draft a paper that includes the matrix by mid-August.
(July 23, 2010)
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