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No Denver? Downtown Denver is currently going through major changes right now. A lot of infill, new stores, much improved public transit, and the residential buildings are changing Downtown really fast.
Center City Philadelphia has dozens of large projects either in the works or ready to begin over the next 3 years, completely transforming sections of downtown, so if all goes through then there will some extremely dramatic (positive) changes for Center City.
DTLA is changing and LA in whole is becoming a larger business district than it formerly was. Denver is also growing, but I'm not sure about "Downtown" Denver.
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The center and focal point of development for all of Downtown San Francisco will have moved from north of Market to South of Market by 2020, into an area that once was only low rise industrial buildings. An 1100' tower, huge multimodal transit station, five to six 400'-800' towers, a huge expansion of SFMOMA, hundreds of mixed use and residential units are going up, and more.
If you want to count places like Target, (which is kind of silly, IMO, what's next, WalMart?) there are around a half-dozen full-size urban Targets planned or u/c in NYC.
Target is popping up everywhere, but not in every downtown area (or CBD), which this thread is about.
Target is popping up everywhere, but not in every downtown area (or CBD), which this thread is about.
There's nothing wrong with Target and as more downtowns attract people to live there rather than just work or play, having one isn't a bad idea especially for the convenience of people living there.
But at the same time I think it's funny how sometimes people now hold up getting a Target in their downtowns as something to brag about. And my city is no different, downtown Portland recently got a CityTarget and it was funny how hyped up the development was. It's sort of like a hip K-Mart basically.
Investment in urban cores is higher than it has been in decades, and, with a societal shift in preferences towards more compact living, we are experiencing an exciting time for cities.
The economy is still arguably in recovery mode from the Great Recession, so in a few years, I think it's realistic to say we'll see even more of an acceleration of development/reinvestment in the urban cores of all major metro areas.
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