• Office space conversion could lead to a virtuous cycle for cities

    Christopher Leinberger and Rebecca Rockey explain the historic opportunity to rebalance the real estate in urban centers.
    Cities need to “get real” and promote office building conversions to live- and play-oriented uses to avoid a structural “doom loop,” Christopher Leinberger and Rebecca Rockey told CNU’s On the Park Bench participants. The good news is that downtown office conversions are feasible in two ways: 1)...Read more

  • Wrapping up a landmark new urban neighborhood

    Two handsome four-story buildings are on the final lots to be built in Glenwood Park, a Charter Award-winning neighborhood in Atlanta.
    Designed in 2001, Glenwood Park in Atlanta won a Charter Award in 2003 for its plan to transform a former industrial site into a new neighborhood. Historical Concepts designed and is developing a pair of mixed-use buildings to complete the project. Glenwood Park is located on the Atlanta Beltline,...Read more

  • How to reverse the ‘urban doom loop’

    Walkable places are critical to cities and the national economy and here’s a formula to get them back on track.
    Walkable urban places (WalkUPs) have been declining since 2019 due to the pandemic, rising disorder (or its perception), and a shrinking office market—but a new nationwide report says a virtuous cycle can be restored by rebalancing real estate and uses. Reiminaging Cities: Disrupting the Urban Doom...Read more

  • The housing shortage and structural costs of sprawl

    This graph shows why housing is getting so expensive. Annual housing production in the US plummeted in the 2010s, with annual single-family construction just over half of what it was in the 2000s, according to a report Top Cities for Real Estate Development . Although multifamily held its ground in...Read more