Transit-Oriented Development
Dive into transit-oriented development that spotlight planning strategies, improve mobility, and connect people to transit-centric places.
Developers are using sustainable transportation, transit-oriented development, and mobility amenities to increase real estate value, reduce parking demand, and strengthen long-term resilience.
City planners across North Carolina’s rural, suburban, and urban environments assert that a vibrant walkable downtown is their goal. They’re aiming to put that value into practice using a broad range of transportation options with help from the funding in the 2022 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
What ULI members need to know to ensure that revenues support equitable decarbonization of the built environment.
Since 2019, Toronto’s Housing Now initiative has activated city-owned sites for the development of affordable housing within mixed-income, mixed-use, and transit-oriented communities.
Physical distancing and restriction of travel were some of the earliest and most effective and widespread strategies enacted worldwide to control the transmission of COVID-19. Roads emptied of typical automobile traffic, and many were used in new ways to support the needs of communities. Cities used roadways to create space for walking and bicycling, outdoor commerce, and queuing for essential services, with the implementation of these programs moving abnormally quickly to respond to an increased demand.
The success of Chicago’s push in recent years to support development near public transit had a problem, according to Charlton Hamer, senior vice president of local developer Habitat Affordable Group: The popularity of the new projects created inequity because many people could not afford to live in them.
Panelists at a ULI New York event shared some of the plans for the future by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to leverage both public and private investments to update the three airports that serve New York City.
By 2040, metro Atlanta is projected to grow by 2.5 million people, bringing it to 8 million people, according to the Atlanta Regional Commission. Understanding how transportation and land use can accommodate this increase was one of the subjects discussed at a recent ULI Atlanta event. The event was cohosted in partnership with Perimeter Connects and the Perimeter Community Improvement Districts.
Incentivized by city parking policies, private developers provide fewer parking spaces or increase density in new projects.
Speaking at a recent ULI event in Fort Lauderdale, Dean Trantalis, mayor of Fort Lauderdale, was joined by Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen and Jenni Morejon, the president and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale Downtown Development Authority, on a panel discussing some of the short-term policies being implemented to make major strides for local residents, tourists, and companies alike.
Autonomous vehicles will remake cities in ways we are only beginning to imagine. Architects and planners have to envision structures now that will fit into that future.
Detroit’s metropolitan area is slowly growing again, which means it’s time to focus on planning to accommodate more people in an area already light on transit infrastructure. For a place long known as Motor City, it has been an uphill battle to become a transit-oriented community, but what can the region do with its existing infrastructure in the short term?
In many ways, San Diego illustrates the challenges facing many attractive U.S. cities, including the demand for affordable housing, struggling retail, and the need for more senior housing. At the top of the list is a strong community wariness of any new development, which has made it difficult to build meaningful mixed-use projects, said speakers during a January panel discussion organized by ULI San Diego–Tijuana.
How can the public and private sectors work together to encourage more development around public transportation networks?
As Nashville prepares to turn its vision for a $6 billion regional transit plan into reality, the public and private sectors are exploring how transit can address other economic issues. ULI Nasvhille hosted a panel discussion on the opportunity for developers.
Graduated density zoning boosts the payoff to participating in land assembly—and could increase the supply of affordable housing.
A new report from the ULI Terwilliger Center says that U.S. suburban housing markets are well positioned to remain preferred places to live and work over the coming decades, even as urban cores and downtown neighborhoods continue to attract new residents.
During a session at the 2016 ULI Fall Meeting, panelists involved in the ULI Healthy Corridorsproject discussed strategies for transforming unsafe, unattractive, and poorly connected commercial corridors into thriving places that further the goal of creating healthy and economically vibrant communities.
This session at ULI Los Angeles conference provided an unusual opportunity to hear two of L.A.’s key planners discuss their attitudes, priorities, and philosophies, and offered a glimpse into the future of L.A. development as they addressed the myriad issues facing the city.
Downtown Manhattan got a new architectural landmark last week, with the opening of architect Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center Transportation Hub. The distinctive structure with wing-like ribs connects the PATH commuter trains from New Jersey to the New York subway system, as well as the trans-Hudson ferries. Take a virtual tour with this video by Bloomberg Business.
How public and private interests combined forces to overhaul the transit hub, now home to San Francisco’s tallest building, Salesforce Tower.
Developers in Colorado—which has a statewide vacancy rate of just 4.5 percent—are responding to increased demands from millennials and baby boomers for housing focused on healthy and intergenerational living, said Patrick Coyle, director of the state’s housing division, at the closing general session of the ULI Housing Opportunity 2014 conference in Denver.
One of the legacies of the Olympic Games held in Vancouver four years ago is a light-rail line that has become something of an international model in transit circles.
Just as rapidly urbanizing U.S. neighborhoods grapple with the challenges of auto-oriented land use patterns from the past, millennials and entrepreneurs have come up with a solution: the sharing economy.
Retail developers are finding that urban sites are among the best new and ongoing development opportunities given the demographic shifts to cities, said panelists of the ULI Fall Meeting in Chicago, and transit-oriented development is a top prospect for retail and retail-housing mixed use.
Transit measures fared well with voters in November. But debate continues over the best choice — rail or enhanced bus service?
Special assessments, which tie property taxes directly to benefits, are being used in some of the country’s highest-profile transit projects.
With a focus on its historic Union Station, Los Angeles is trying to create transit links between downtown and surrounding historic neighborhoods—and invited a ULI advisory services panel to weigh in.
In an effort to facilitate walkable urbanism while harnessing suburban growth into sustainable neighborhoods, the North Central Texas Council of Governments has partnered with the Partnership for Livable Communities to help finance the construction of a transit line along a right-of-way called the Cotton Belt. Read how creative finance is poised to get this project done years ahead of schedule.
Wholesale gentrification is not an inevitable result of transit-oriented development—if thoughtful, proactive actions are taken. Many tools exist to balance the benefits and detriments of gentrification while transit ridership is supported and enhanced. Read about three approaches city and local authorities are using to mitigate gentrification.
