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Old Posted Feb 9, 2007, 4:17 AM
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The water body itself is called Mission Creek.
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Old Posted Feb 9, 2007, 5:01 AM
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The 240 acre Railyards are the biggest development in the pipeline for Sac (I've also included the Capitol Mall projects in the map):
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2007, 9:33 AM
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as mentioned further up Vancouver and its burbs are experieng growth all over

areas like Brentwood



the clump of trees on the upper left is getting 6 low rises and one high rise and the are to the right is getting a highrise and low rises

and the area to the bottom - not in pic is really growing

highgate also in burnaby is growing as well



and surrey central area has something like 20 highrises planned or underway
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2007, 2:37 AM
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Presenting the Calgary Development Map:



And the development inventory:


The map is pretty much just the downtown and beltline area south of downtown, but the boom is affecting just about everywhere. The main N-S route out of downtown has good sized projects going up along it for about 80 blocks south of the core, usually in bunches, but its a fairly good stream of cranes. And our largest projects are just starting, or just about to.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2007, 2:57 AM
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thats all one area though? downtown
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2007, 2:58 AM
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San Fran is creepily like Boston sometimes
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2007, 3:33 AM
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There are indeed similarities, but they are mostly superficial I think...

Construction does not boom in Boston either.
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Old Posted Feb 13, 2007, 2:55 AM
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Toronto's undergoing a huge boom:

-68 highrises under construction within city limits, plus a bunch more in the suburbs (8 in Mississauga alone, for example)

-major expansions/renovations to existing cultural centres, plus new centres: Royal Ontario Museum Expansion, Spadina Museum expansion, Art Gallery of Ontario expansion, new Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, new theatre in Distillery District, etc.

-enormous new airport terminal. Passenger numbers are supposed to rise from something like 35 million per year at the present to over 50 million per year in the next few years alone

-not only new condo towers, but numerous new office and hotel skyscrapers

-many, many millions of square feet of new retail are being built

-a streetcar will reopen this week new with it's own ROW. A new subway line opened a few years ago, and a $1.5 billion expansion to an existing line should be built soon. There are also hundreds of new buses coming to the various transit systems (not just replacements for old buses, but increases to the fleet sizes). Possible high-speed rail to the airport.

-approximately 100,000 new condo units built in the last 10 years alone
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Old Posted Feb 13, 2007, 3:35 AM
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^^^^you can't forget the endless stream of new subdivisions built all in around Toronto in the last 5 years.

However the core is very healthy and growing so whatever.
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Buffalo is building at a pace that is only comparable to Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Dubai...

...combined.
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For Los Angeles, the booms outside of Downtown LA include Hollywood, with numerous major projects, Century City, where several 40 + story condos are going up or will soon, Wilshire, Pasadena and Long Beach, not coincidentally, all areas that are linked by the Metro.
Got to give the LA metro credit for all the TOD developments.
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Old Posted Feb 13, 2007, 4:45 AM
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Hartford, CT's boom began downtown with the publicly and privately financed Adriaens Landing Project along the CT River which opened up a new covention center, Marriott Hotel and soon a new science center and retail/restidential/entertainment district called Front Street. This project helped jumpstart a wave of construction downtown and today there are numerous projects either recently completed, under construction or in the planning stages for downtown. For example there are more then 1,000 new residential units downtown including those in New England's tallest residential tower - the 36 story Hartford 21 tower. Older historic buildings are being converted to condos & apartments, a former department store is now a community college, another former department store will soon house townhouses for college students, a new supermarket will open downtown and new bars, restaurants and clubs have popped up all over the place.

This growth has helped to in turn fuel growth in the city's 16 other neighborhoods. Adjacent to downtown is Asylum Hill where AETNA & The Hartford are headquarted. AETNA recently announced it will be moving 3600 workers to their Hartford campus and improving their headquarters and a new culinary institute relocated to Asylum Hill from the suburbs.

Over the West End - one of the city's wealthier neighborhoods former theaters have been converted into restaurants and city's only traditional private school is planning an expansion.

A bit west of downtown along Park Street huge growth as been seen in the heart of the regions hispanic retail center. Along Park Street there are hundreds of shops, restaurants, supermarkets, cafes, offices, etc. all catering to the hispanic community that come from all over to frequent Park Street. Further along Park Street former factories now house design centers and lofts.

South and north of downtown former housing projects are being torn apart and replaced with rowhouse / multi family developments to promote home ownership in the city.

Finally the regions colleges and universities are starting to take a bigger role in the city. The University of Hartford will be housing students in a former department store downtown and will be constructing a brand new performing arts center in one of the city's neighborhoods. Trinity College which is known nationally for its status as a high ranking urban liberal arts college has helped create the learning corrdoir ( a huge complex with multiple magnet schools). Trinity just recently opened up a community sports complex and they are continuing to add onto their campus as enrollment grows. A few years ago the University of CT School of Business opened up downtown and the UCONN School of Law is still in the west end of the city.
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Chicago currently has hundreds of thousands of highrises under construction.
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Chicago currently has hundreds of thousands of highrises under construction.

What?
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Chicago currently has hundreds of thousands of highrises under construction.
What and where are these 'hundreds of thousands' of highrises being built?
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2007, 4:30 AM
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Chicago currently has hundreds of thousands of highrises under construction.
It's true! See!



But most of the high rises aren't so much under construction as they are new proposals.

And most of those high rises aren't so much being proposed as they meet one of my wistful fantasies.

Only a minor technicality over the definition of the term "under construction."
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2007, 6:21 AM
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not sure if it would really impress some of you guys from Canada and Miami... but we have about $3.9 billion dollars worth of projects U/C or soon to be U/C in Downtown Pittsburgh and the adjacent North Shore... including LRT extension, mixed use / residential skyscrapers, new university buildings, hotels, a "green" neighborhood featuring 700 residential units in high-rises and townhouses, entertainment complex, amphitheatre, etc. Outside of the Downtown area, residential infill is taking place in the Hill District, South Side Flats and Slopes, East Liberty, Garfield and elsewhere. A new children's hospital is U/C in Lawrenceville. Condo buildings are U/C in East Liberty, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, etc. The Eastside retail development in East Liberty continues to expand. New hotels are springing up in the Strip District, Oakland and North Shore. New office, medical and lab space is booming in the Oakland (university district) neighborhood. Carnegie-Mellon University is building new tech facilities. The SouthSide Works brownfield redevelopment is continuing expansion, including hotel and condos. A brownfield in Hazelwood is undergoing transforming into a lifesciences park. There's even a new retail/mixed-use building going up right next to my residence here in Bloomfield. Downtown is booming with construction... but most of the city is seeing new projects... as well as rehabs and adaptive reuse.

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Spokane has it districts and highrises in motion (Not nearly the size of cities listed above) but the Kendall Yards project just alone in Spokane is going to be a 80 acre residential, commerical, expansion of downtown to the north bank of the Spokane river.





Seattle P.I.:

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Steel rails, wooden cross-ties and canvas tents on the riverbanks marked this farm and railroad town's start.

Now, a developer is looking at an abandoned train yard to launch an economic future that includes concrete condominiums and walks on a bluff overlooking the Spokane River.

Billed as the city's largest urban infill project in decades, Kendall Yards sits on 80 acres on the north bank of the Spokane River in the northwestern corner of downtown.

The site is essentially a blank slate, with no decrepit old buildings that need to be torn down, or renovated, as occurs in most urban redevelopment projects.

A former railroad locomotive repair yard contaminated by spilled fuel, it was transformed during a yearlong "brownfields" cleanup that won national awards.

Now, Marshall Chesrown, a Spokane native who made his fortune selling cars with Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga, is developing the mixed-use pedestrian neighborhood that has been called a boon for Spokane's anemic economy.
"To really grow Spokane's economy, you need an influx of outside capital," Chesrown said during a recent interview in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, headquarters of his Black Rock Developments, which builds exclusive residential and golf community projects. "Someone's got to be willing to take the risk."

As envisioned, the Kendall Yards project will build 2,600 residences and 1 million square feet of commercial and office space with an "urban village" look. Initial plans call for a 20-year buildout of the entire $1 billion project.

Kendall Yards is the largest urban planning venture in Spokane since unsightly railroad yards in the middle of the city gave way to a world exposition in 1974.

When completed, the Kendall Yards project will include upscale condominiums and residences and retail shops that are pedestrian and bicycle friendly.

"It may be the most significant piece of developable property in the country," Spokane Mayor Dennis Hession said. "It's the single-most significant construction project in the history of the city. It changes the landscape of downtown."

Hession jumped on board early and took the unusual step of creating teams within city departments to facilitate the project. The city created nine more positions in its Building Department to handle the anticipated Kendall Yards work load.

"There will be a lot of unique challenges," Hession said. "We will be dropping a huge development into the middle of an urban area."

"To find 80 acres in the core of a city anywhere in the United States, we don't think it exists," said Chesrown, calling his project "a once in a lifetime opportunity for Spokane."

Andy Kunz of NewUrbanism.org said Kendall Yards appears to be unique because it is being built on land never before developed, but there more than 4,000 "new urbanist" projects planned or under construction in the country; half of them in historic urban centers.

NewUrbanism.org is an organization that promotes the creation and restoration of pedestrian-friendly mixed-use downtown communities of homes, offices, shops and parks with increased use of trains and light rail

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Based on that downtown and near downtown map, Calgary grows more and more impressive.
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