• Converting a shopping mall to a downtown

    Downtown Westminster, Colorado, is designed as a ‘place’ that grows organically with affordable housing included.
    A new downtown is being built for Westminster, Colorado, a suburban city with no previous walkable downtown—on 105-acre former shopping mall site. Downtown Westminster will include 2,300 residential units with substantial affordable housing, and 1.7 million square feet of commercial uses—such as a...Read more

  • The walkable urban trend keeps going

    A national study shows strong demand for walkable urban development—cities with high rents perform surprisingly well on social equity measures.
    Walkable Urban Places (WalkUPs) continue to outperform other forms of real estate development in the nation’s largest metro areas, according to a new report Foot Traffic Ahead: Ranking Walkable Urbanism in America's Largest Metros • 2019 . The report finds a huge unmet demand for new WalkUPs, the...Read more

  • Realizing the potential for catalytic conversion

    We've seen how Opportunity Zones can spur multiple developments to provide high-quality low-income housing while transforming communities.
    The Beacon Center, a new faith-based development in the District of Columbia, recently opened with a ceremony marked by one inspiring speech after another. Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser noted how the project “took back a corner,” transforming a crime-ridden pocket of the city into a development...Read more

  • A Week of Love and Struggle

    At CNU 27.Louisville, New Urbanists got a little verklempt
    It's not as if Congresses past have been devoid of emotion and humanity, but CNU 27 and its host city, Louisville, seemed to bring out the feeling in all of us. Urbanists are such romantics. Romantics with a practical vision for positive change. #CNU27 #louisville #incrementaldevelopment pic...Read more