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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this

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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this 0 dbarista Tue, 07/11/2023 - 10:44 Multifamily Housing Is the office-to-residential conversion really what’s best for our downtowns from a cultural, urban, economic perspective? Or is this silver bullet really a poison pill?

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6 guideposts for cities to create equitable transit-oriented developments

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With demand, rents and property values increase, and the people who called the neighborhood home before the infrastructure improvements took place are priced out. However, there is a purposeful shift under way toward a concept that prioritizes equity at every step of the process to enable inclusive communities around transit stops.

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Three interconnected solutions for 'saving' urban centers

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In the last three years, urban centers have been hammered by an unprecedented series of connected, compounding crises—from existential threats like the pandemic and climate change, to complex issues of safety, equity, and affordability. Office to residential repositioning at 1 St. So what if we could solve one problem with the other?

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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MFPRO+ Blog Mixed-Use Affordable Housing Senior Living Design Apartments Designers Architects New Project Portfolios A wave of residential projects rising across the country is meeting an insatiable demand, given the estimated shortage of 7.3 Sustainable Senior Living Construction is well under way in Yonkers, N.Y.,

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40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2023

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He's dedicated to promoting biogenic building technologies and their widespread adoption in the industry, aiming to transform construction practices towards sustainability and innovation. He's also passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and is a member of Webcor's black ERG, The Collective. billion EUR turnover.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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They have to pitch in and get involved because they all realize that we won’t have sustainable economic growth if housing is too expensive here.”. South Jordan responded by rezoning a parcel of land to allow for more density and kicked in $900,000 for infrastructure development to get prices $100,000 below market value.

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Pulse: 07/30/2012

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Search our site: Infrastructure. Sustainability. New York Lincoln Equities Group is planning to build a mixed-use development at Hallets Point in Astoria, Queens. Lincoln Equities Group, 301 Route 17, Rutherford, N.J., ENR subscriber login » -->. SUBSCRIBE TODAY & receive immediate web access. Transportation.