October 10, 2022

Before/after: MARTA parking lots transformed into 350 homes, more

Edgewood/Candler Park, Quill, Spoke

Now finished, Edgewood-Candler Park station overhaul includes public park, retail, offices, and performance academy for kids

OCTOBER 06, 2022, 2:59PM JOSH GREEN

Prior to 2016, approaching MARTA’s Edgewood-Candler Park station from the south meant encountering a sea of weedy asphalt parking lots, where only about one in three parking spaces was being used by transit customers each day.

Today, it’s a drastically different urban scenario—and quite possibly a preview of things to come throughout sections of Atlanta reached by the heavy rail system.

MARTA on Friday declared the agency’s first transit-oriented development since Lindbergh Center complete, roughly six years after it had broken ground in Edgewood.

Source: Urbanize Atlanta

September 28, 2022

First look: Pittsburgh Yards to expand with ‘Container Courtyard’

Pittsburgh Yards

Expect a village of food and retail options beside the Atlanta BeltLine’s Southside Trail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022, 4:25PMJOSH GREEN

A year after Pittsburgh Yards cut the proverbial ribbon on its first phase, the adaptive-reuse, community-boosting jobs hub south of downtown is gearing up to add food and retail to its mix.

Pittsburgh Yards reps have shared a first look at the next component of phase-one development on University Avenue in the historic Pittsburgh neighborhood: a BeltLine-adjacent commercial village to be called the “Container Courtyard.”

Tentative plans call for opening the Container Courtyard—positioned between current Pittsburgh Yards workspaces and offices and the first completed section of BeltLine’s Southside Trail—next spring.

The goal is to provide 10 local businesses with a permanent location, with a focus on food and retail in spaces designed by Atelier 7 Architects, project officials tell Urbanize Atlanta.

Source: Urbanize Atlanta

September 23, 2022

A lot of housing … just not the right type? Making the case for affordable options in the CSRA

Columbia Ventures

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.

Source: The Post and Courier

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Before/after: MARTA parking lots transformed into 350 homes, more

Now finished, Edgewood-Candler Park station overhaul includes public park, retail, offices, and performance academy for kids

First look: Pittsburgh Yards to expand with ‘Container Courtyard’

Expect a village of food and retail options beside the Atlanta BeltLine’s Southside Trail

A lot of housing … just not the right type? Making the case for affordable options in the CSRA