Top 5 planned project with list for your metro

[liat91]

Cosidering your metro area CSA what are the top 5 planned building or infrastructure projects you hope will come to fruition that haven't commenced work on any bulk phase of the project.

I have given my top 5 for some metro areas other than my own as well.

New York:
1. ARC Tunnel (wouldn't have to be here if it wasn't for that showboat Christie
2. Cony Island redevelopment.( I know some things have started, but it's really nothing when considering the entire scope of this project).
3. Domino Sugar Plant development in Brooklyn
4. Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex NJT expansion
5. Tower Verre

Los Angeles:
1. West Side Rail
2. LA Live
3. Grand Ave
4. Wilshire Grand
5. Park Fifth

Chicago:
1. West-Side intermodel rail station
2. 151 North Michigan
3. Grant Park Tower 3
4. Mellenium Park Plaza
5. Commuter rail expansion to Marengo, IL.



Boston:
1. South Station Tower
2. Filene's
3. Commuter rail extension to New Bedford and Fall River
4. Commuter rail extension to Manchester, NH
5. Congress Street

[Quixote]

LA Live is already built.

...

1) Westside Subway Extension
2) Regional Connector
3) Expo II
4) Park 101
5) Hollywood Freeway Central Park

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Originally Posted by Westsidelife

LA Live is already built.

...

1) Westside Subway Extension
2) Regional Connector
3) Expo II
4) Park 101
5) Hollywood Freeway Central Park

i would replace the Hollywood Freeway park with the AEG Event Center.

Hollywood freeway park is huge, but i think the event center has a better chance of bringing in more business, development and money. i would have the Hollywood park at 6th and Wilshire Grand at 7th.

[krudmonk]

Earthquakes stadium

photo: San Jose Earthquakes

A's stadium

photo: Baseball San Jose

Diridon Station and high-speed rail

photo: California High-Speed Rail Authority

San Pedro Market and North San Pedro

photo: www.spsquaremarket.com

Ohlone mixed-use

photo: www.greenrepublicsj.com

[pdxtex]

for portland, oregon but in no order.

the new I 5 bridge over the columbia river connecting north portland to vancouver, wa.

a southern light rail extension to the suburb of milwaukie

a northern ligt rail extension to vancouver

east side street car expansion (somewhat underway)

rebuilding the sellwood bridge should be the city's top priority. its the busiest two lane bridge in the state and is falling apart.

[cabotp]

For Vancouver, BC.

1) To finally see the Evergreen line extension to Coquitlam centre mall started and completed.

2) The Broadway rapid transit extension. This one is seriously needed and was needed at least 5 years ago. On a major artery that carries upwords of about 115,000 boardings a day. They could not build this one fast enough

3) ALRT or LRT in Surrey. No route planned yet but initial plans are on the drawing board.

4) Gondola up Burnaby mountain to Simon Fraser University.

5) Rapid bus expansion in the region.

Most of the infrastructure building happened in the past 5 years. So we are in a bit of a lull right now.

[AaronPGH]

Pittsburgh

1) RiverParc - on hold



2) Downtown > Oakland rail line (and throughout the East End)

3) Light-rail extension to the airport

4) Baum / Centre / Liberty redevelopment (canceled due to NIMBYs)

5) Redevelopment of Allegheny Center (reconnecting the street grid)

[The_Architect]

Originally Posted by cabotp

For Vancouver, BC.

1) To finally see the Evergreen line extension to Coquitlam centre mall started and completed.

2) The Broadway rapid transit extension. This one is seriously needed and was needed at least 5 years ago. On a major artery that carries upwords of about 115,000 boardings a day. They could not build this one fast enough

3) ALRT or LRT in Surrey. No route planned yet but initial plans are on the drawing board.

4) Gondola up Burnaby mountain to Simon Fraser University.

5) Rapid bus expansion in the region.

Most of the infrastructure building happened in the past 5 years. So we are in a bit of a lull right now.

No BC Place Stadium? That's a pretty big project going on right now..

[Reverberation]

Springwoods Village:



www.springwoodsvillage.com

Americas Plaza: (Probably on hold)


Regent Square:

http://www.cbre.com/USA/US/TX/Housto...e.htm?pageid=0

Boulevard Place: (delayed)

http://swamplot.com/putting-off-the-...ed/2008-10-21/

The Perennial:




http://swamplot.com/tag/uptown/

[liat91]

Originally Posted by Westsidelife

LA Live is already built.

...

1) Westside Subway Extension
2) Regional Connector
3) Expo II
4) Park 101
5) Hollywood Freeway Central Park

Oh, my bad. So I guess I would replace LA Live with any large project around McCarthur Park.

[MolsonExport]

^did somebody leave the cake out in the rain?



London Ontario Canada:

1. McDonald's drive-thru expansion
2. repaving 150 metres of Wonderland Road
3. 4 metal trees downtown
4. repainting the railroad overpass at Oxford street
5. duplex at corner of Richmond and Huron


The excitement is palpable.

[Xelebes]

Folks, remember to cite where you got the pictures. Saying they are not yours is not good enough.

[Xelebes]

For Edmonton:

1. West-Southeast LRT Extension
2. Northwest LRT Extension
3. Industrial Heartland (several new refineries and plants, larger than Refinery Row)
4. Port Alberta (giant railyard, several new logistics and breakbulk facilities)
5. Fort Hills (part of Industrial Heartland but itself an incredibly massive project.)

[futuresooner]

Nashville-Murfreesboro MSA:

1: Music City Center (new convention center underway)
2: new Nashville Sounds ballpark (several locations considered)
3: redevelopment of former thermal plant site on the river downtown
4: Commuter rail connection to largest surbub, Murfreesboro(105,000)
5: finding new location for state fairgrounds and redevelopment of current site

[Prahaboheme]

Orlando:

1) Florida High Speed Rail (3 stops in Orlando at Disney, Airport, Convention Center)
2) SunRail (61 mile commuter rail system spanning metro area)
3) Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center -- downtown Orlando
4) Peabody Hotel Expansion at Convention Center -- South Orlando
5) Creative Village Proposal -- downtown Orlando

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by Xelebes

Folks, remember to cite where you got the pictures. Saying they are not yours is not good enough.

noted and fixed

[mhays]

For Seattle.

Replacement of Highway 99 through Downtown, currently a rickety viaduct, a six-block tunnel that's way below code, and a short divided surface highway that's uncrossable, is to be replaced by a new 9,000 foot deep bore tunnel. This will focus exclusively on the pass-through traffic, with no exits. Design-build proposals for the main project are currently being evaluated...but both are at/below budget, which is huge news. I support the tunnel because it'll keep much of the pass-through traffic off the surface streets (Seattle is an hourglass). If things go as planned it'll break ground in 2011.

Replacement of 520 from I-5 in Seattle to Eastside, primarily a new floating bridge on Lake Washington. The bridge might collapse...as two other floating bridges have before. The new bridge would have the same 2+2 regular lanes, but also HOV lanes and finally a bike lane. The same project would replace the section within Seattle as well, widen the Montlake Bridge to the UW, and add a couple park lids. This might start in 2012 if I recall.

I'll count as one item the incremental additions planned to our starter light rail system. One expansion is underway now on the existing line. The same line has other planned expansions north and south, and another line is planned to go east. The first portion of the next north expansion is planned for 2012 or so.

Yesler Terrace is a 28-acre low-density public housing project on First Hill, within a golf shot of the CBD proper. The Seattle Housing Authority plans to rebuild the public housing, while adding a large volume of market rate housing and commercial development (using developer money as well as housing levy funds to pay for the public portion). The options being studied range from 3,000 to 5,000 total units plus a million sf or more of commercial and medical. Here's an overview: http://www.seattlehousing.org/redeve...erview/#vision

I'm not sure about the fourth. A lot of developers have grand plans for new/expanded districts. Large organizations (universities, hospitals, etc.) have master plans. In terms of all-new projects, one that's large and fairly urban is the Spring District, planned for a current industrial site in Bellevue, straddling the planned East Link light rail line. http://wrightrunstad.com/properties-...-district.aspx

[jtk1519]

Dallas

1. Project Pegasus - Rebuilding the downtown Dallas Mixmaster...


http://www.projectpegasus.org/overview.htm


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=147

...and with it build the new I-30 bridge...


http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...84&postcount=3

2. The downtown subway line/2nd LRT alignment...


http://www.dart.org/about/expansion/...dallasmaps.asp

3. The Cotton Belt commuter rail line...


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=214

4. The Trinity River park...


http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=231535


http://www.wrtdesign.com/news/releas...-Honor-Award/3

5. Victory Tower/Mandarin Oriental at Victory Park...


http://dallas.condodomain.com/The-Re...riental-Dallas

[DJM19]

My Los Angeles projects I hope all come to fruition and ASAP:

1. grand ave development (Hell, I'll settle for a new rendering with what it will actually look like)

2. LA Central

3. Convention Center Expansion/NFL stadium

4. HSR + Union Station upgrade

5. Downtown freeway-cap park. Hollywood's is probably more along in the visioning stage, but I anticipate this 101 park more.

[Cirrus]

Assuming that large scale master plans and such don't count, and we're talking about currently active physical construction projects...

1. DC 37-mile streetcar network
2. Silver Line Metro to Tysons Corner, Dulles Airport
3. Redevelopment of the old convention center site
4. The DC's region's three tallest skyscrapers, under construction in Rosslyn. (link1, link2).
5. Capital Bikeshare is already the US's largest bikesharing network, and will continue to grow every year. By the time it gets to be about twice its current size it will be revolutionizing travel in the central city.

If allowed to list larger scale and longer term projects, then the redevelopment of Tysons Corner and DC's various waterfront development plans would have to be on the list, along with several large-scale suburban TODs.