• Adaptive reuse of extraordinary impact

    The 1907 Block in Rogers, Arkansas, catalyzed the redevelopment of downtown and established the city as a culinary hub. High Street Real Estate & Development won a 2026 CNU Charter Award in The Block, Street, and Building category.
    The 1907 Block is embedded in a vibrant downtown, the revitalization of which it helped to launch. The developers saved a historically important but dilapidated building in Rogers, Arkansas, and constructed two new, context-appropriate residential buildings. With three James Beard Foundation...Read more

  • New Walmart headquarters embedded in urban fabric

    The mass-timber Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas, is built into the street grid with a regional bike-ped trail through the middle.
    Visitors to Northwest Arkansas can't help but notice the pervasiveness of Walmart. The largest corporation in the world by revenue with 2.4 million employees, Walmart is everywhere in the US. But around Bentonville, it is different. Buildings all over—massive buildings—bear the Walmart logo. Stores...Read more

  • Mouzon: California Forever is true sustainability, not hype

    The plan for a city of 400,000 leads to the same outcomes as The Original Green, concludes urbanist Steve Mouzon.
    Architect and urban designer Steve Mouzon, author of The Original Green and a prominent New Urbanist, posted a lengthy piece this week endorsing California Forever, the plan for a new city between Sacramento and San Francisco. Mouzon explains how California Forever aligns with every principle that...Read more

  • A European feel in Oklahoma

    The trend of inner-block development is very cool. This sweet little project, called Townsend in Edmond, Oklahoma, is breaking ground with two live-work units, 18 townhouses, and 13,000 square feet of commercial space on about an acre. Austin Tunnell, founder of Building Culture & Apollo, which...Read more