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I was wondering if anyone could link me to websites that show the layout of mixed use centers with retail portions. One of the cities near me is building a mixed-use center with 51,000 sq. ft. retail, hotel, residential, and office and I can't think of any other cities with mixed use centers with that much retail.
It sounds like it's like a New Urbanist development, which is just mixed-use based on the traditional city. But it's something we mostly forgot how to do here in America. It currently can take any form, from being a building in a city that already has mixed use development, to basically just a mixed use "ufo" landed in the middle of suburban sprawl that you just have to drive to anyway. But here is the wikipedia link of examples in the USA. It's definitely not definitive, I know of several other examples both in Minnesota and PA, the two places I've most recently lived. Examples of New Urbanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It sounds like it's like a New Urbanist development, which is just mixed-use based on the traditional city. But it's something we mostly forgot how to do here in America. It currently can take any form, from being a building in a city that already has mixed use development, to basically just a mixed use "ufo" landed in the middle of suburban sprawl that you just have to drive to anyway. But here is the wikipedia link of examples in the USA. It's definitely not definitive, I know of several other examples both in Minnesota and PA, the two places I've most recently lived. Examples of New Urbanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
No I mean like a mixed use shopping center. "mixed use center"
Many have described as a retail/office/residential/hotel center. And even though it's called "Chinatown" it's not a Chinatown. They called it the Chinatown project because historically there was a chinatown on this block.
I am looking for similar developments like this one.
It looks like a pretty standard New Urbanist development to me. I think if you click on the wikipedia link there you'll find some similar examples, with links to the individual websites.
I'm guessing that the amount geared towards retail is mostly just based on what they are expecting the demand to be. It looks like the town already has a pretty healthy downtown area.
There was one proposed for the suburb I grew up in. NIMBYs killed the plan though. The location was poor, though. It was in an area where the only development was strip malls and there was a bit of farmland and preserved forest nearby.
It looks like a pretty standard New Urbanist development to me. I think if you click on the wikipedia link there you'll find some similar examples, with links to the individual websites.
I'm guessing that the amount geared towards retail is mostly just based on what they are expecting the demand to be. It looks like the town already has a pretty healthy downtown area.
This one is under construction in KOP outside of Philly, actually right next to the largest mall in the US, more retail space than the Mall of America - they never recreate a organic town experience but are typically much better than either a mall or old style strip mall
Village at Valley Forge (http://www.mypinwheel.com/accounts/pw_05132001/links/index2.html - broken link)
To Raincoats point, these seem pretty standard these days
This one is three miles up the highway from the one being built in KOP
One was built in Sugar Land about a decade ago - coffee shop, Marriott, condos, city hall, boutiques. The Woodlands (http://www.thewoodlands-commercial.com/Images/pdfs/UrbanDesignPlan.pdf - broken link) is a huge mixed-use development; they started building it in the late 1970s.
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