As parking lots empty out in Paris's city center, retail logistics hubs are moving in. From there, goods can be transported a short distance by bike.

Once a concrete parking facility in the middle of the city's downtown, Wolfson Parking Garage has been transformed into a relaxing green space.

Executive Education Academy Charter School came up with unique solution to make room for new facility.

In 2017, Amtrak unveiled renovation plans for 30th Street Station in which the Porch would eventually be dismantled to make way for construction of a permanent plaza. The changeover happens Oct. 31.

As aging retail continue to evolve, one increasingly popular trend has been to redesign malls as town centers—recalling a time when such commercial districts were the heart and soul of a community. Mall–to–town center retrofits are emerging throughout the nation, especially in suburban communities, where pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use environments are highly attractive to millennials now raising families.

Pennsylvania HB1446 lets local governments offer tax exemptions for redeveloping underused malls and greyfields into housing, green space, or energy-efficient sites.

Reevaluating Toronto's surface parking lots to build more housing

Montreal is planning dense, walkable neighbourhoods to tackle the housing and climate crises, but the plans face delays, rising costs and resistance. Major projects like Bridge-Bonaventure aim to transform the city, but red tape and financing stand in the way.

The structure at 148 Edgewood Avenue was built in 1926 by the company now known as Georgia Power.

Covid-19 may have caused a precipitous decline in convention crowds in 2020, but it did not halt long-range plans to overhaul and expand convention centers in a number of key U.S. cities. Today that foresight is bearing fruit with grand new facilities able to host larger industry and trade gatherings than ever before.

Marianne Alto is asking religious and cultural centres to consider using their surface lots as overnight shelter space in return for a tax break

The owners of the Clinton Street Garage in Syracuse's Armory Square are proposing the property be turned into a mixed-use apartment complex.

Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order that directs every city agency to investigate whether they have land that can be developed.

Many people waiting to get into Emerald Heights are currently living in single family homes around town and some say giving senior residents a way to downsize will create more housing options for other families.

Two largely underutilized parking lots, owned by the city, in the area of State Street, will be converted to roughly 450 apartments. A quarter of the apartments will be affordable.

A city-owned parking lot at the corner of Osborne Street and Stradbrook Avenue could soon have a new owner, potentially paving the way for development on a prominent corner in Osborne Village.

The United Center’s vision is the latest in a string of developer proposals to remake whole swaths of land near downtown.

The City of Montreal announced Tuesday it will be transforming a municipal parking lot in the LaSalle borough into a park. It will be located at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Centrale Street, near the commercial area. In a press release, the City said it is a strategic location that “will become a lively […]

Right now, there are probably between 700 million and 2 billion parking places in the U.S. But the sea of American parking lots is slowly shrinking.As cities realize that they’ve built more parking than they need, dozens have eliminated parking requirements in new buildings. In California, any new construction near public transit no longer has to include parking. That means there’s room for more apartments, and rents can be lower. Here are nine recent parking lot transformations.

Back in 2018, there was uproar when a 6-story storage facility was planned on the site of a surface parking lot at 1314 Spring Garden Street. With a ton of momentum happening in the area – multiple mixed-use and multifamily development planned nearby – a storage facility just didn’t seem to make sense. If you Read more about 149-Unit Building to Replace Parking Lot at 13th and Spring Garden[…]

Where could tens of thousands of new homes fit in one of the densest parts of America? One local official looks for pockets of opportunity.

A recent court ruling put a stop on a high-rise planned for the South Street Seaport, pitting preservation against housing needs — again.

The legislation would make it faster and easier to turn San Francisco’s gas stations,...

The new neighborhood growth blueprint would increase the area's population from 78,000 to 143,000 and break up car-centric superblocks.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.

The City Council will vote Wednesday on whether to adopt a new plan that has the goal of "reducing dependency on automobile transportation."

Good designers could revitalize Gainesville's obsolete strip malls, creating vibrant urban neighborhoods.

The Alusta Pavilion gives birds, bees, and plants a lush habitat—and human visitors a renewed outlook on the natural world.

Cities are debating the use of acres of urban land as parking after the pandemic shone new light on how those spaces can be used in a more creative and valuable way

Richmond’s City Council just selected a development team for a $2.4 billion reimagining of the Diamond District, which could yield more housing, transit-oriented development, and park space.