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I wonder how the ranking for multimodal train station master plans would go. Seems like every city has one.
Probably NYC and San Francisco number 1 since they're actually developing theirs. Did DC start yet too? Philly's is probably at least a decade out. They want to fully build up around 30th St station before capping and building over the Powelton Yards.
Probably NYC and San Francisco number 1 since they're actually developing theirs. Did DC start yet too? Philly's is probably at least a decade out. They want to fully build up around 30th St station before capping and building over the Powelton Yards.
D.C. is doing preliminary work. The goal is to have the whole thing done in 10 years I believe in phases. The platform has to be done first. This is the second major air rights project going on in D.C. right now. The decking of I-395 and the decking of the Union Station tracks. Both are game changers for the city's urban footprint.
For Union Station, I don't think many of the other master plans are for just the station so it's not apples to apples. The other master plans are for entire transit neighborhoods like NOMA which Union Station is in which was created as a multimodal neighborhood from scratch. In fact, NOMA looked just like the Gulch in Atlanta only 5-7 years ago.
NOMA at full buildout
Office Space = 22,361,000 sq. feet
Retail = 1,336,550 sq. feet
Residential = 10,053 housing units
Hotel = 1,122 rooms
D.C. can't really compete in the city limits for high-rise towers 20-40 stories tall for obvious reasons. I'm not even going to address the pathetic bill that congress just passed for D.C.'s height limit that only allows penthouse living now. Yay....SMH... I guess it's a start. We do, however, have some tower's rising outside of the city along our metro system and many more planned.
I only included buildings 16+ stories tall:
**Note: Urbanturf DC doesn't update it's website often so many projects are actually under construction that might still say planned**
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