Suburban Skylines: A California Tech Town’s Growth Struggles
Cupertino, California is fighting against twinned challenges of sky-high housing prices, and an unwillingness of some residents to work to change that.
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Real Estate
What To Do When The Client Says They Need More Parking
An uncomfortable situation in which the client wants to demolish buildings to add parking spaces. Let’s push back and say, “what about this other thing instead?”
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People Deserve Beautiful Things
The SDBA program introduced an interesting discussion about design standards in renovation. It happens to be something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about.
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Why Parking Minimums Are Bad.
We can build cities for people, or we can build them for cars. Eliminating parking minimums, which require that off-street parking spaces be included in every development project, is a great way to move us toward the former after decades of moving toward the latter.
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Hubbard Farms Gets Serious About Density
Far from the haunted basements of my own portfolio with SDBA, Southwest Detroit is rocking a few new real estate development projects these days, including one that local residents should know about.
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Nat Zorach Joins ULI Larson Fellowship
The Urban Land Institute will host its newest cohort of Larson fellows, kicking off tomorrow morning in downtown Detroit.
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The Ilitch Crusade Continues: When Is Enough Enough?
The latest Ilitch demolition has us all scratching our heads and wondering when we will deserve a better city– for buildings, for historic preservation, and, of course, for Detroiters.
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Diesel Exhaust, Potholes, and A Vision of Better Commercial Corridors in Southwest Detroit
Greg Mangan, real estate advocate for the Southwest Detroit Business Association, picks me up at the northwest corner of West
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Can Second-Floor Apartments Make A Comeback? A New SDBA Grant Program Thinks So.
An ambitious new program in Detroit seeks to provide $10,000 to property owners to renovate and rent out second-floor and third-floor apartments in mixed-use buildings along several major corridors in Southwest Detroit.
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Will California Get Out Of Its Own Way?
The Bear Republic has been bearish on housing prospects. But a new bill could change that– provided the state and its residents can shake off its affinity for car-dependent suburban sprawl.
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