Sacramento: Project Pitched Near Light Rail Station
Sacramento Bee
The worst thing about Sacramento's miles of light-rail lines is what you often see out of the train windows: warehouses, parking, the sense of nowhere. More housing is key to making this transit investment work to capacity. The system needs more people who step out the front door and take the next train...
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(August 2, 2010)
New York: Agencies Team Up on Affordable Housing
The Real Deal
The Community Preservation Corporation has partnered with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development to provide $9.8 million for the gut renovation of two affordable housing developments in Brooklyn....
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(August 2, 2010)
San Francisco: Housing Plan Sets Parking Debate
San Francisco Chronicle
Neighbors were never especially happy about plans to build 71 units of affordable housing on a city-owned bus turnaround at Ocean and Phelan avenues, across the street from City College...
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(August 2, 2010)
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)
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)
