• ‘Texafornia,’ soon to be a reality, needs more mixed-use

    The Lone Star State is at a unique historical point where rapidly increasing population may lead it down the same path as California. We have an opportunity to shape that growth.
    “Oh, there is In-n-Out Burger here in Dallas!” “No way, you’ve got Dutch Bros here too!” These expressions are from my friend who now lives in New York City after being a Californian for a couple of years. Apparently, he misses these establishments that are often associated with California. His...Read more

  • Building a new urban job center

    Providence in Huntsville looks like many other traditional neighborhood developments, but it also boasts three times the number of jobs as residences. How did it accomplish that and other seemingly impossible tasks?
    Twenty years ago today, DPZ CoDESIGN came to Huntsville, Alabama, to begin design on the Village of Providence, a Traditional Neighborhood Development that shattered several norms and accomplished things that aren't supposed to happen today. There are so many great Providence stories, but let's...Read more

  • In its hometown, Coors launches urban redevelopment

    As its name suggest, Golden, Colorado, began as a gold rush town, but it’s biggest economic driver in the 20 th Century was the golden liquid of Coors beer and Coors-related operations. The Coors family started the Coors Brewing Co. (now Molson Coors) in Golden, and also a ceramics manufacturing...Read more

  • A new era of downtown opportunity

    Despite the pandemic's devastating impact on the office market, downtowns and nearby walkable neighborhoods are looking forward to two decades of growth driven by demographic and economic change.
    Over the past two years I have heard colleagues express growing pessimism about the future of North America’s downtowns. And why not? In its April 2021 report, “To Recover From COVID-19, Downtowns Must Adapt”, Brookings noted “Across the U.S., the pandemic has left downtowns ‘ cratered ,’ ‘...Read more