Will Macht

William P. Macht is a professor of urban planning and development at the Center for Real Estate at Portland State University in Oregon and a development consultant. (Comments about projects profiled, as well as proposals for future profiles, should be directed to the author at [email protected].)

New, tech-based companies create temporary apartment hotels, monetize absorption vacancies, and stimulate urban mixed-use projects.
Incentivized by city parking policies, private developers provide fewer parking spaces or increase density in new projects.
A light-gauge steel structural system allows an apartment building to rise 12 stories above five parking levels in Atlanta.
A San Francisco developer imports Chinese steel modules to install 22 units of graduate student housing in only four days.
A novel condo development incorporates fully robotic parking and direct access to high-end units.
Over the past two decades, the form, face, and future of this former military installation have been emerging.
A national developer transforms a faded Texas strip center into a mixed-use place around a central urban street.
James Rouse’s visionary development is 50 years old. The process of urbanizing its town center may create a model for other suburban developments.
Public/private partnerships build a mixed-use, urban-scaled community in Union City, California.
International developer Hines turns an old factory site into transit-oriented urban housing near the terminus of Boston’s Red Line.
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