White Sox and fans would benefit from transforming parking lots into a neighborhood
Sox fans no longer would face the prospect of every game being book-ended by traffic jams on the Dan Ryan. They could linger in the neighborhood to shop, eat and play, just as Cub fans do in Wrigleyville.
Purchased for a breathless $1,700 per square foot; or $1.65 million for a tear down(!) in the third quarter of 2019, plans to raze the uninhabitable 950-square-foot Portola District home that sits on a nearly 10,000-square-foot lot at 666 Hamilton Street have been drawn. And if approved by Planning next week, the parcel...
Boston Properties wants to replace garage parking with office space at Reston Gateway | Reston Now
Boston Properties wants to replace garage parking with office space in the final block of Reston Gateway, a massive mixed-use development that's currently under construction steps from the Reston Town Center Metro Station.
Although the first phase of the project was approved by the county in 2018,
Developer closes on financing for $124M apartment project in West St. Paul – Twin Cities
Plymouth-based affordable-housing developer Dominium announced Friday it has closed on financing for two apartment buildings on the former Kmart site and the adjacent vacant Signal Hills Bank prope…
Silicon Valley Toyota dealership turns car lot into housing
Housing is so scarce in Silicon Valley, and property values are so high, that one Toyota dealership is building housing on top of its car lot. Others may soon follow.
Converting Garages for Cars into Housing for People
The United States has a large supply of residential garages that could be converted into affordable apartments. Unfortunately, off-street parking requirements prohibit converting most of these garages for cars into housing for people. Converted garages in single-family neighborhoods are variously called second units, accessory dwelling units, garage apartments, granny flats, and backyard cottages. To convert a garage into an apartment, off-street parking requirements typically force a homeowner to replace the two garage parking spaces with two new parking spaces, plus an additional off-stre...
Adaptive Reuse: Office and Housing that Begin as Parking Structures
As we continue contemplating the impact of new technology such as driverless cars on the parking industry, designing parking facilities for adaptive reuse is a popular topic of discussion.…