Two towers at 11th Street and Auraria Parkway will include over 330 units of workforce housing, new education centers and retail.

Paolo Zialcita | Jan. 06, 2025, 3:54 pm

The Auraria Campus will soon break ground on its ambitious housing and retail development project. 

The first phase of construction is expected to start this summer on the Auraria Campus’ Ballfield Project, which seeks to breathe new life into the Tivoli Quad at 11th Street and Auraria Parkway. 

The project will bring non-student residents back to the campus for the first time in decades. 

What is now the home to Denver’s three public institutions of higher education — the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver and the Community College of Denver — was once a bustling community of immigrants.

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Source: Denverite

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a two-part series addressing a gap in affordable housing in the Central Savannah River Area and possible solutions. The second article will examine how redevelopment and reinvestment can aid in growing cities. 

Housing. It’s going up everywhere.

North Augusta alone in 2021 had its biggest year in new home builds – both by number of units and by total construction values – since the big Riverside Village project in 2017.

And it seems things are only just getting started: the two largest tracts of land within the city limits are as yet undeveloped but planned for a mix of housing and commercial: the 1,368-acre Highland Springs subdivision development along Palmetto Parkway and the 750-acre Hamrick Farms mixed-use project near Exit 1.

So, why are regional experts saying there’s a housing shortage?

Denis “Denny” Blackburne, senior vice president of business and development for Woda Cooper Companies, a development firm that specializes in affordable and workforce housing, said he believes the U.S. as a nation is currently facing a housing crisis that has largely been brought on by lack of supply.

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Source: The Post and Courier

Noel Khalil will be honored posthumously at the 26th Annual ULI Atlanta Awards for Excellence 

ULI Atlanta is pleased to announce that Noel Khalil will be posthumously honored with the Frank Carter Community Achievement Award at the 26th Annual Awards for Excellence dinner on May 19 at The Eastern.

The Frank Carter Community Achievement Award is given to an individual in the field of real estate development or related area such as finance, planning or design who has made an outstanding contribution in his or her lifetime to the metropolitan Atlanta region. The very first Frank Carter Award was given to Tom Cousins in 1995 and over the years has been awarded to AJ Land, John Portman, Lawrence and Mary Gellerstedt and most recently Chip Davidson in 2019. Khalil joins a distinguished group of leaders who have made outstanding contributions to our community and to the real estate industry.

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Source: Citybiz