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<\/a>College campuses can provide fertile ground for New Urbanism-inspired development. Storrs Center, a $220 million project completed in 2016, forms an integrated, walkable downtown adjacent to the University of Connecticut campus in Mansfield.<\/p><\/div>\n
New Urbanism officially turns 25 this year, though its founders had been using its principles to design communities for years before the meeting of the movement\u2019s first congress in 1993. While New Urbanism is best known for high-profile projects like Seaside, Fla., Kentlands, Md., and Norton Commons, Ky., to name a few, the movement has also influenced countless other developments, spurring the creation of walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods with town centers for public uses.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s probably hard to find a new master-planned suburban development that doesn\u2019t at least nominally reflect some of the fundamentals of New Urbanism principles,\u201d said Stockton Williams, executive vice president of content for the Urban Land Institute & executive director of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
Today, a new generation of projects incorporating New Urbanism principles is taking shape. Rising in diverse settings across the country, these developments incorporate the latest iterations of established principles as well as cutting-edge approaches to sustainability, density and pedestrian-friendly design.<\/p>\n
More than mixed-use<\/h2>\n![\"Renderings](\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/01\/Troy-Town-Center-Aerial-GPG-2016.jpg\")
<\/a>Renderings of a proposed $350 million, 125-acre town center in Troy, Mich., a northern suburb of Detroit. The master plan calls for some 850 residences, retail, parks, a hotel and two town squares, all near civic buildings.<\/p><\/div>\n
New Urbanism 2.0. That\u2019s how Ralph Ireland, vice president of development operations at Tavistock Development, refers to Lake Nona, his company\u2019s 17-square-mile, master-planned project in Orlando.<\/p>\n
Lake Nona features such trademark New Urbanism elements as generous open space providing access to pedestrians and bicyclists, camouflaged parking garages and a well-integrated mix of housing and other uses, Ireland said. A cornerstone of the development is Lake Nona Town Center, a 3.8 million-square-foot mixed-use destination. Steiner + Associates, an early champion of the town center concept, is Tavistock\u2019s development partner for the 800,000-square-foot second phase, which will encompass restaurants, retail and entertainment.<\/p>\n
Amid its variety of single-family home designs, Lake Nona notably features a variety of innovative multifamily projects. One such property is the 201-unit Pixon, which will include 42 studios and Orlando\u2019s first micro units. Among other amenities, Pixon will showcase such sustainable elements as charging stations for electric cars, bicycle storage and an innovative ride-sharing program that will employ onsite Tesla vehicles.<\/p>\n
![\"Troy](\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/01\/Troy-Town-Center-Square-GPG-2016.jpg\")
<\/a>Troy Town Center renderings \u00a9 2016 Gibbs Planning Group Inc.<\/p><\/div>\n
Robert Gibbs, president of Birmingham, Mich.-based Gibbs Planning Group and a leading New Urbanism proponent, notes that there is \u201ca big difference between a New Urbanism community and a mixed-use community,\u201d citing \u201cgood walkability\u201d and a \u201cgood public realm\u201d as major criteria.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we proposed this concept 25 years ago, we were seen as radicals that didn\u2019t understand the markets and were just dreamers,\u201d Gibbs recalled. \u201cThe demographics are shifting so quickly toward a major catastrophic problem, because the empty nesters and Millennials probably want the same compact mixed uses but it\u2019s illegal to build in most communities,\u201d he added, referring to zoning laws that limit density.<\/p>\n
![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/01\/Lake-Nona-Model_CMYK.jpg\")
<\/a>A scale model of the second phase of Lake Nona Town Center, a 3.8 million-square-foot destination in Orlando. Steiner + Associates\u2019 plan calls for integrating 800,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment elements in a pedestrian-friendly setting.<\/p><\/div>\n
Gibbs recently created the master plan for Troy Town Center, a proposed $350 million, 125-acre project in Troy, Mich., a suburb north of Detroit. Key components would include retail, parks, a hotel and two town squares. Of note, the plan calls for the new development to be close to public buildings: city hall, the police station, the courthouse and the library. \u201cWe like four primary uses: retail, employment, residential and civic,\u201d Gibbs explained. \u201cThat\u2019s the Urban Land Institute\u2019s definition of a town center. If it doesn\u2019t have these, it\u2019s a lifestyle center.\u201d<\/p>\n
Student-driven urbanism<\/h2>\n![\"KPMG](\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/01\/HiRes_Back.jpg\")
<\/a>KPMG is developing a $400 million, 55-acre learning, development and innovation campus at Lake Nona. Completion is scheduled for 2019.<\/p><\/div>\n
College campuses are well known for sparking the student housing boom, but they can also provide fertile ground for New Urbanism innovations. One recent example is Storrs Center, a $220 million property adjacent to the University of Connecticut campus in Mansfield, developed by a team of LeylandAlliance LLC and EdR, as well as the Mansfield Downtown Partnership, a coalition of town and UConn representatives. Completed in 2016, the project comprises 11 mixed-use buildings housing 626 rental units, retail, office, townhouses, condominiums, a town square and 20 acres of nature preserves.<\/p>\n
The impetus for Storrs Center came from the university, which was losing prospective faculty and students because it lacked a downtown nearby, explained Howard Kaufman, LeylandAlliance\u2019s principal & CEO. The firm is collaborating with EdR on the transformation of East Hills Plaza, an aging retail center south of the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, N.Y. Final details are pending, but the concept is similiar to that of Storrs Center: a walkable, 35-acre site with student housing, office space and retail.<\/p>\n
On the horizon<\/h2>\n![\"Homes](\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/01\/Lake-Nona-Homes_Laureate-Park-2.jpg\")
<\/a>Homes in the Laureate Park neighborhood of Lake Nona in Orlando.<\/p><\/div>\n
As developers and designers envision a new generation of projects embracing\u00a0 New Urbanism, they must grapple with a fresh wave of challenges. To begin with, one of the movement\u2019s indispensible sectors is roiled by uncertainty.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe retailers are reinventing themselves, readjusting themselves to the changing environments,\u201d said Yaromir Steiner, founder & CEO of Steiner + Associates, citing the consensus that the U.S. is over-retailed by about 20 percent. In the two decades since creating the 2.9 million-square-foot Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio, the firm has developed another 9 million square feet of destinations influenced by New Urbanism principles.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Renderings of a proposed $350 million, 125-acre town center in Troy, Mich., a northern suburb of Detroit. The master plan calls for some 850 residences, retail, parks, a hotel and two town squares, all near civic buildings.<\/p><\/div>\n
New Urbanism 2.0. That\u2019s how Ralph Ireland, vice president of development operations at Tavistock Development, refers to Lake Nona, his company\u2019s 17-square-mile, master-planned project in Orlando.<\/p>\n
Lake Nona features such trademark New Urbanism elements as generous open space providing access to pedestrians and bicyclists, camouflaged parking garages and a well-integrated mix of housing and other uses, Ireland said. A cornerstone of the development is Lake Nona Town Center, a 3.8 million-square-foot mixed-use destination. Steiner + Associates, an early champion of the town center concept, is Tavistock\u2019s development partner for the 800,000-square-foot second phase, which will encompass restaurants, retail and entertainment.<\/p>\n
Amid its variety of single-family home designs, Lake Nona notably features a variety of innovative multifamily projects. One such property is the 201-unit Pixon, which will include 42 studios and Orlando\u2019s first micro units. Among other amenities, Pixon will showcase such sustainable elements as charging stations for electric cars, bicycle storage and an innovative ride-sharing program that will employ onsite Tesla vehicles.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Troy Town Center renderings \u00a9 2016 Gibbs Planning Group Inc.<\/p><\/div>\n
Robert Gibbs, president of Birmingham, Mich.-based Gibbs Planning Group and a leading New Urbanism proponent, notes that there is \u201ca big difference between a New Urbanism community and a mixed-use community,\u201d citing \u201cgood walkability\u201d and a \u201cgood public realm\u201d as major criteria.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we proposed this concept 25 years ago, we were seen as radicals that didn\u2019t understand the markets and were just dreamers,\u201d Gibbs recalled. \u201cThe demographics are shifting so quickly toward a major catastrophic problem, because the empty nesters and Millennials probably want the same compact mixed uses but it\u2019s illegal to build in most communities,\u201d he added, referring to zoning laws that limit density.<\/p>\n
<\/a>A scale model of the second phase of Lake Nona Town Center, a 3.8 million-square-foot destination in Orlando. Steiner + Associates\u2019 plan calls for integrating 800,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment elements in a pedestrian-friendly setting.<\/p><\/div>\n
Gibbs recently created the master plan for Troy Town Center, a proposed $350 million, 125-acre project in Troy, Mich., a suburb north of Detroit. Key components would include retail, parks, a hotel and two town squares. Of note, the plan calls for the new development to be close to public buildings: city hall, the police station, the courthouse and the library. \u201cWe like four primary uses: retail, employment, residential and civic,\u201d Gibbs explained. \u201cThat\u2019s the Urban Land Institute\u2019s definition of a town center. If it doesn\u2019t have these, it\u2019s a lifestyle center.\u201d<\/p>\n
Student-driven urbanism<\/h2>\n<\/a>KPMG is developing a $400 million, 55-acre learning, development and innovation campus at Lake Nona. Completion is scheduled for 2019.<\/p><\/div>\n
College campuses are well known for sparking the student housing boom, but they can also provide fertile ground for New Urbanism innovations. One recent example is Storrs Center, a $220 million property adjacent to the University of Connecticut campus in Mansfield, developed by a team of LeylandAlliance LLC and EdR, as well as the Mansfield Downtown Partnership, a coalition of town and UConn representatives. Completed in 2016, the project comprises 11 mixed-use buildings housing 626 rental units, retail, office, townhouses, condominiums, a town square and 20 acres of nature preserves.<\/p>\n
The impetus for Storrs Center came from the university, which was losing prospective faculty and students because it lacked a downtown nearby, explained Howard Kaufman, LeylandAlliance\u2019s principal & CEO. The firm is collaborating with EdR on the transformation of East Hills Plaza, an aging retail center south of the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, N.Y. Final details are pending, but the concept is similiar to that of Storrs Center: a walkable, 35-acre site with student housing, office space and retail.<\/p>\n
On the horizon<\/h2>\n<\/a>Homes in the Laureate Park neighborhood of Lake Nona in Orlando.<\/p><\/div>\n
As developers and designers envision a new generation of projects embracing\u00a0 New Urbanism, they must grapple with a fresh wave of challenges. To begin with, one of the movement\u2019s indispensible sectors is roiled by uncertainty.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe retailers are reinventing themselves, readjusting themselves to the changing environments,\u201d said Yaromir Steiner, founder & CEO of Steiner + Associates, citing the consensus that the U.S. is over-retailed by about 20 percent. In the two decades since creating the 2.9 million-square-foot Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio, the firm has developed another 9 million square feet of destinations influenced by New Urbanism principles.<\/p>\n
<\/a>KPMG is developing a $400 million, 55-acre learning, development and innovation campus at Lake Nona. Completion is scheduled for 2019.<\/p><\/div>\n
College campuses are well known for sparking the student housing boom, but they can also provide fertile ground for New Urbanism innovations. One recent example is Storrs Center, a $220 million property adjacent to the University of Connecticut campus in Mansfield, developed by a team of LeylandAlliance LLC and EdR, as well as the Mansfield Downtown Partnership, a coalition of town and UConn representatives. Completed in 2016, the project comprises 11 mixed-use buildings housing 626 rental units, retail, office, townhouses, condominiums, a town square and 20 acres of nature preserves.<\/p>\n
The impetus for Storrs Center came from the university, which was losing prospective faculty and students because it lacked a downtown nearby, explained Howard Kaufman, LeylandAlliance\u2019s principal & CEO. The firm is collaborating with EdR on the transformation of East Hills Plaza, an aging retail center south of the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, N.Y. Final details are pending, but the concept is similiar to that of Storrs Center: a walkable, 35-acre site with student housing, office space and retail.<\/p>\n
On the horizon<\/h2>\n<\/a>Homes in the Laureate Park neighborhood of Lake Nona in Orlando.<\/p><\/div>\n
As developers and designers envision a new generation of projects embracing\u00a0 New Urbanism, they must grapple with a fresh wave of challenges. To begin with, one of the movement\u2019s indispensible sectors is roiled by uncertainty.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe retailers are reinventing themselves, readjusting themselves to the changing environments,\u201d said Yaromir Steiner, founder & CEO of Steiner + Associates, citing the consensus that the U.S. is over-retailed by about 20 percent. In the two decades since creating the 2.9 million-square-foot Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio, the firm has developed another 9 million square feet of destinations influenced by New Urbanism principles.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Homes in the Laureate Park neighborhood of Lake Nona in Orlando.<\/p><\/div>\n
As developers and designers envision a new generation of projects embracing\u00a0 New Urbanism, they must grapple with a fresh wave of challenges. To begin with, one of the movement\u2019s indispensible sectors is roiled by uncertainty.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe retailers are reinventing themselves, readjusting themselves to the changing environments,\u201d said Yaromir Steiner, founder & CEO of Steiner + Associates, citing the consensus that the U.S. is over-retailed by about 20 percent. In the two decades since creating the 2.9 million-square-foot Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio, the firm has developed another 9 million square feet of destinations influenced by New Urbanism principles.<\/p>\n