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CNU XVINew Urbanism and the Booming Metropolis»»»Rail
Wesmont Station
Submitted by Joe Menard on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 4:56pm.Location: Woodridge, NJNarrative & program: Winner of the 2006 New Jersey Smart Growth Award Wesmont Station is a transit-oriented development that will occupy the site of the former Curtiss-Wright factory in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey. The site, which was used for plane construction in Wor... read more »
Mockingbird Station
Submitted by Joe Menard on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 3:53pm.Location: Dallas, TXNarrative & program: Increasingly, municipalities are turning to light rail and other rapid transit systems to ease commuter burden. In Dallas, results have been impressive - Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) ridership totals more than 97 millions trips per year. With th... read more »
Atlantic Terrace
Submitted by Joe Menard on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 9:44pm.Location: Brooklyn, NYNarrative & program: Historically, Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn was developed as a manufacturing, industrial, and commercial corridor. Many of its buildings-located on what was once classified as a brownfield site-have been recently converted into residential lofts and... read more »
Parkview Commons
Submitted by Joe Menard on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 9:27pm.Location: Bronx, New YorkNarrative & program: Parkview Commons is a new mixed use affordable housing development located on Elton Avenue fronting East 161st Street in the Melrose Commons Urban Renewal Area. Built on a former brownfield site, this nine story apartment building will contain ... read more »
Sugar Hill Apartments
Submitted by Joe Menard on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 9:12pm.Location: New York, NYNarrative & program: Located among traditional homes and carriage-houses in the historic Sugar Hill area in Harlem, New York, the Sugar Hill Apartments rises to 7 floors of residential and mixed-use space. The building is comprised of 17 new-construction, market-rate... read more »
Boston Road PHHP Development
Submitted by Joe Menard on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 8:18pm.Location: Bronx, NYNarrative & program: 1033 Boston Road is a New York City/New York State PHHP project, which provides permanent housing for formerly homeless families and for families earning up to 60% of the median income. The project is being developed by a joint venture of Nos Quedam... read more »
Downtown Newhall Specific Plan
Submitted by Joe Menard on Fri, 09/21/2007 - 8:11pm.Location: Santa Clarita, CANarrative & program: Newhall a historic Southern California community that is within the 250 square mile Santa Clarita valley. Long since surrounded by suburban development over the past 50 years, this 300-acre Specific Plan repairs the community's connections al... read more »
Santa Ana Renaissance Plan
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 3:58pm.Location: Santa Ana, CANarrative & program: Santa Ana’s historic center is being transformed after a 40-year experiment with urban renewal-based practices scarred the county seat of Orange County, one of the wealthiest in the US. A new Specific Plan, with regulatory status, was developed... read more »
Placentia-Westgate
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 2:53pm.Location: Placentia, CANarrative & program: The northern orange county community of Placentia's historic core serves as the platform for a 110-acre transit-oriented district which restores the original town site of Placita Santa Fe and produces two new neighborhoods out of derelict industr... read more »
Mission Meridian VILLAGE
Submitted by Joe Menard on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 4:48pm.Location: South Pasadena, CA United StatesNarrative & program: The Mission Meridian Village project is a transit-oriented development (TOD) adjacent to a light rail station on the Gold Line between downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena. The site is located between a traditional neighborhood an... read more »

