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There is a major urban park expansion going on in the NOMA neighborhood in Washington D.C. The city has allocated over 50 million dollars to enliven the neighborhood. The neighborhood just added free outdoor wifi through the neighborhood. NOMA will be the densest neighborhood in the entire city at full buildout.
Here is a write up on the development happening in just Center City in Philadelphia (from Spring Garden to South Street, River to River) which is about 2.4 sq miles.
5,808 residential units completed between January 2013 and December 2017
1,573 new hotel rooms
1,961,600 SF of new office space
612,133 SF of new retail space
888,895 SF of educational and medical buildings
563,000 SF of Government and Non-profit buildings
204,400 SF of Cultural institutions
It also lists major projects in Center City recently completed or scheduled to be completed by 2017
As calendar years go, 2014 is monumental for Atlanta. Yes, Outkast has reunited, Tyler Perry will probably release eight movies and every professional sports team will surely raise hopes high before crushing them. But we're talking about tangible Atlanta, the built environment. Whether they're wrapping up, just starting or somewhere in between, major projects will be making mega progress all year long. Step back and think about it: Can any other city compete with a roster like this? Not just this year, but in any single year? Two national museums. An adaptive-reuse project so massive it's on the global tourism radar. The first streetcars in 60 years. A billion-dollar colosseum. Apartment projects in key places. A new district. The next phase of the country's most ambitious urban-renewal project. Yeah, it's a pretty big year.
FYI: There are currently over 100 of the large construction cranes in use in the Houston metropolitan area. Many of them are at the Exxon Mobile campus, The Philips 66 new headquarters, several in the uptown/galleria area and adjacent areas. Then there is the Katy Freeway/Energy Corridor and of course Downtown, the Beltway and just about everywhere else. It is getting to the point that there are too many projects going on to even keep track of.
I was driving down the West Loop freeway (610) and almost took a picture of the mass of cranes that line the 610. It really is amazing.
I don't know who has the most development going on but this is insane right now. It's like we are coming back from the recession with a fury. Every week there seems to be another project announced. It will be interesting to see how Houston looks at the end of the decade. I am sure it will be unrecognizable from what it was.
What is Miami building besides highrises? I know of the port tunnel for trucks (huge advance for the port/SoFla logistics - I wish Jax, my hometown, got the same federal love since it is a far superior port location). But I guess I need an education. The Porsche Design Tower for rich Brazilians living in the city part time seems to be the epitome of the only news stories I read coming out of the city. I also know about the museum, but aside from the Port Tunnel and Museum, what else is going on that doesn't cater to rich flight-money types?
Miami doesn't get much love here in CD construction wise, and especially in this thread, but I assure you that there is much more going on here than most of the cities discussed so far.... and no it's not all just "suburbs in the sky".
Museum Park - under construction - the Perez Art Museum Miami has opened to rave reviews and the Frost Science Museum will open in 2015 with a new Aquarium housed in it. The park has been restructured and is bound to become the Bayfront destination Miami has always deserved. It is the piece that will connect the bayfront North to Edgewater and South to Bayside and the riverwalk.
FYI: There are currently over 100 of the large construction cranes in use in the Houston metropolitan area. Many of them are at the Exxon Mobile campus, The Philips 66 new headquarters, several in the uptown/galleria area and adjacent areas. Then there is the Katy Freeway/Energy Corridor and of course Downtown, the Beltway and just about everywhere else. It is getting to the point that there are too many projects going on to even keep track of.
I was driving down the West Loop freeway (610) and almost took a picture of the mass of cranes that line the 610. It really is amazing.
I don't know who has the most development going on but this is insane right now. It's like we are coming back from the recession with a fury. Every week there seems to be another project announced. It will be interesting to see how Houston looks at the end of the decade. I am sure it will be unrecognizable from what it was.
Its good to hear Houston isgrowing so fast.Right now its still too spread out for my taste.
Once its streetcar is more developed and more street level activity happens perhaps the South will have a few cities that will finally mirrors those more densely populated cities of North and Midwest.
As long as they keep some of there reginal character and physical space then that will be a good thing for the entire region and the U.S.
As calendar years go, 2014 is monumental for Atlanta. Yes, Outkast has reunited, Tyler Perry will probably release eight movies and every professional sports team will surely raise hopes high before crushing them. But we're talking about tangible Atlanta, the built environment. Whether they're wrapping up, just starting or somewhere in between, major projects will be making mega progress all year long. Step back and think about it: Can any other city compete with a roster like this? Not just this year, but in any single year? Two national museums. An adaptive-reuse project so massive it's on the global tourism radar. The first streetcars in 60 years. A billion-dollar colosseum. Apartment projects in key places. A new district. The next phase of the country's most ambitious urban-renewal project. Yeah, it's a pretty big year.
Yes.
Just to put it in perspective, Minneapolis is doing many of those things, and it's not even mentioned in this thread because it's not really at a top-10 level!
*3 new pro-size stadiums built since 2010 (TCF Stadium for the MN Gophers Football team, Target Field for the MN Twins, and the under construction soon-to-be-named Vikings stadium).
*a $400M redevelopment project in Downtown-East, with 1.5M SF of office space, ~600 residential units (including a 26-story hi-rise), ground-level retail, and a 2.5 block city park.
*~15,000 residential units in the construction pipeline, either proposed, approved or under construction, including half a dozen hi-rises over 25 floors and numerous adaptive reuse projects converting old grain mills and warehouses into housing and offices
*a $1B light rail line between the two downtowns (Central Corridor) being completed by summer, two additional rail corridors proposed -- one of which is in the final funding stages (Southwest Corridor), several street car proposals, and multiple BRT proposals -- including one already completed (Red Line)
*a revamp of Nicollet Mall, the main thoroughfare in downtown Minneapolis, that will reinvent yet again how cities can build pedestrian malls/streetscapes (Mpls was the first city to do so 60 years ago), and a revamp of Washington Avenue as a second pedestrian mall
*several pie-in-the-sky comprehensive proposals, including a new downtown city park that would rival the existing city parks outside of downtown (i.e. the Chain of Lakes or Minnehaha Falls), comprehensive city-wide park and development planning that ties in the Mississippi River to the rest of the city, an interstate "cap" that would connect downtown to the formerly wealthy Phillips Neighborhood to the south, and investing hundreds of $millions in retrofitting existing park space within the Chain of Lakes to bring them up to par with other national examples of great urban parks
*and just outside of downtown, the Mall of America is currently expanding in a $250M project that is only a small part of a larger expansion that is reportedly supposed to nearly double the square footage of the Mall of America, bringing the total mall size to nearly 10M SF (still not a world record)
I'm probably missing something, but all of these things have been proposed, approved or are already under construction so far this year (except two of the three stadiums), and it doesn't even scratch the surface of top-10 cities in terms of development activity! Also, it would be nothing short of a miracle if all of these projects actually came to fruition, which I also assume is true for every other city being discussed in this thread.
The bottom line is that although this level of city investment hasn't been seen by most U.S. cities in their lifetimes, it's not necessarily unprecedented on a national level. Amazing!
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About 10-15 names have been released to the public. There will be close to 100 stores at full buildout of the mega development. Downtown DC retail will be among the best in the country for downtown shopping.
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Over 100 construction cranes are up in houston
