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].)

In its work for developer LCOR, Baltimore-based architecture firm Design Collective formulated urban design strategies for multiple-building residential development North Bethesda Center that illustrate a disciplinary, multipronged approach.
A Utah developer includes townhouses to densify one block in the downtown of a new community southwest of Salt Lake City.
Developers build single-story, single-family detached housing units in multifamily communities to rent at premiums over multistory projects.
The metric acre could fill a missing intermediate scale between square meters and hectares and, like the metric ton, bridge the gap between the imperial and metric systems.
A redevelopment of a 1980s strip center in a suburban town programs urban-style mixed uses with 1,500 fewer parking spaces than would have been required without sharing.
“Atrium quads” can provide private, secure, spacious, flexible, single-family urban living at densities comparable to those provided by garden apartments.
The pandemic has accelerated the use of contactless drones for comprehensive applications in real estate development.
A public/private partnership in Surrey, British Columbia, builds a mixed-use point city center near Vancouver.
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A tall mixed-use tower without parking replaces a small Philadelphia parking lot, while its multimodal urban passageway connects two streets.
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A Seattle developer pioneers a flexible process to bring live/work/make/eat/shop uses to a superblock site on Portland’s inner urban fringe.
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