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How Downtown Revitalization Can Shape the Future of a City

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The Future is Cleveland! 🏙️ Have you been following the incredible transformations happening in #TheLand? Cleveland is The Land Taking the World by Storm, captivating attention with its revitalization trends that promise an exhilarating future! Reimagining Downtown Cleveland: The city is evolving into an innovative 18-hour, 15-minute neighborhood, setting a model for urban development. 🗞 The Washington Post acknowledges Cleveland's Public Square as a beacon inspiring other cities to transform. https://lnkd.in/evHcKTPi 🗞 Spectrum News highlights how our city is basking in the national spotlight for downtown revitalization. https://lnkd.in/enDTG6AV Embracing the Waterfront: Connecting the lakefront to downtown Cleveland is a game-changer! 🗞 Bloomberg notes that people now see this post-industrial heart as not just a place to work, but to live. https://lnkd.in/eCg5GgtN 🗞 The Athletic emphasizes the potential impact of revitalizing the lakefront – it could go a long way in shaping our city's future. https://lnkd.in/eMgmRDiN 💭 Now, I'm curious – which trend resonates with you the most? How do you envision these transformative initiatives shaping the future of Cleveland? Share your thoughts below! #TheLandForLife #Cleveland #Revitalization

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A 1980s Edge City [Las Colinas] Comes Back From the Brink, Minus Its Monorail: The master-planned Texas business hub of Las Colinas was built around cars and offices. Now it’s embraced apartments and evolved into a genuine — and quirky — urban area. “Most planned communities are overwhelmingly residential, with little employment. Las Colinas is the reverse. About 124,000 people work there; 55,000 live there. Corporate headquarters abound, including Caterpillar, Kimberley Clark, Commercial Metals, Fluor and McKesson. This is no accident: Las Colinas was the rare planned community that put business first.” “What Carpenter was doing was trying to replicate downtown Dallas, which was office-dominated,” says Christopher Leinberger, professor emeritus at George Washington University, who worked at Las Colinas in the 1990s. The name of the core of the development — the “Urban Center” — speaks to that vision.” “Like many master-planned towns of its era, Las Colinas suffered severe setbacks as it evolved, in part because of its single-minded focus on office space. In recent decades, however, it’s successfully tweaked its formula to embrace mid-rise apartments, transit-oriented development and walkability. At a time when traditional American downtowns are racing to reinvent themselves, the half-century journey of Las Colinas serves as an example of the perils of building a city around business — and how to loosen a too-stifling white collar.” “In Las Colinas, Carpenter had created an urban space without urban problems, seemingly — and without the demographic diversity of a real city. Aerotropolis referred to it as “the city you get when it’s designed by CEOs.” Ingersoll’s Texas Architect piece was headlined: “Las Colinas: Ultimate Bourgeois Utopia.” “In 2000, there were only 2,000 residential units downtown; now the Urban Center boasts about 7,500 — a residential influx that helped Las Colinas fare better than office-only developments during Covid. “What we have learned with the pandemic is that our central business districts got crushed because they’re 90% office space. It violates portfolio theory — don’t put all of your eggs in one basket,” Leinberger says. “Walkable urbanism did not get crushed.” “The standard knock on planned communities is that the top-down approach leaches the life out of them, and there’s an artificiality to them when newly built. Five decades in, Las Colinas might still be far from the felicitous tumult of the real city, but it’s become a layered place — and one that ended up becoming a lot more interesting than the businessman’s utopia its founder imagined.” #lascolinastx #texas #masterplannedcities #commercialrealestate #siteselection #businessmansutopia

🔍 “Pick Your Winners” 🏙️ In his seminal book, “Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time,” Jeff Speck introduces a transformative strategy for urban development: “Pick Your Winners.” But what does this mean for our cities? 1. High-Impact Focus: • Concentrate efforts on areas with the most potential to become vibrant, walkable spaces. Identify neighborhoods or streets where improvements can have the biggest impact. 2. Strategic Resource Allocation: • Instead of spreading resources thin, prioritize areas that can serve as models of success. This targeted investment approach maximizes the return on investment by creating exemplary walkable spaces. 3. Leverage Existing Strengths: • Build on what already works. Enhance areas with historic buildings, natural landscapes, or thriving commercial activity to create anchor points for further development. 4. Create Success Stories: • By focusing on and investing in “winners,” cities can create visible examples of walkable, vibrant urban spaces. These success stories can inspire and justify further investments in other parts of the city. Why It Matters: • Catalytic Projects: Targeted investments can act as catalysts for broader urban renewal. • Public Support: Visible success in strategic areas can help build public and political support for further urban development initiatives. Let’s leverage these insights to help create more vibrant cities!

What are the key strategies for revitalizing downtowns? Explore recent articles in Urban Land Magazine that discuss trends and approaches to breathe life back into urban spaces and attract people to cities: Redefining Third Spaces: Modern Approaches to Informal Urban Gather: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gfeQVmpG A Sense of Place—Revitalizing Downtowns Through Smart Placemaking: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gRYRWeHs Chicago Developers Take Advantage of City Funds for Adaptive Use Projects: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gz6Dwatb Demand Shortfalls and the Floorplate Mismatch: What’s Happening with Downtown Retail: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e69bdWeD #RealEstate #CommercialRealEstate #Downtowns #DowntownRevitalization #CRE #UrbanPlanning #CityPlanning

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