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What cities in North America have the coolest development projects right now? [Canada, Mexico, United States] (live, place) - City vs. City - Page 2 - City-Data Forum
What cities in North America have the coolest development projects right now? [Canada, Mexico, United States] (live, place)
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Washington recently completed beginning phases of Capital Crossing which involved completion of the decking over 395 and producing office, retail/mix above. This all took place this decade.
I nominate however the whole section of the city below 695/395 freeway including the SW Waterfront Wharf of DC (2 phase project) and Navy Yard/Capital Riverfront/Buzzard Point. This area has extended the core of DC down into a second/3rd node within the city proper. It's mostly the reason why DC's had so many cranes in the sky this decade.
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- Seattle's new Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, which opened in 2016 and replaced the previous floating bridge is pretty cool:
- Washington Metro Silver Line's Phase I opened up in 2014 and Phase II is set to open next year. It's a grade separated heavy rail extension throughout the DMV (all three jurisdictions). Currently 29.6 miles exist and another 11.5 miles of track are online starting next year for a total of 41.1 miles of total length. There are 28 stations currently with another 6 set to open with the next phase.
- Honolulu's ambitious new rail system finally comes online next year and features a rare system for the United States. The trains will be neither light rail nor heavy rail but instead will be MCS (Medium Capacity Systems), which are a hybrid system in between light rail and heavy rail and still make the rapid transit classification. The trains are generally as fast as heavy rail but the are lighter. The first phase in 2020 will have 20 miles and then the second phase will open in 2025.
- Dallas and Houston are working on true high speed rail (HSR = over 160 MPH) featuring the N700S series Shinkansen technology that will top out in speed at 205 MPH and the project seems to be getting all of its pre-construction preparations in order to get started on construction either late next year or early on the year after.
- Saint Louis has built a museum and visitors center underground beneath the Gateway Arch in an effort to modernize the visitor experience there. They've also invested in making the surrounding parkland better and give people more recreational space to enjoy the city's most iconic attraction.
- Florida's Virgin Trains is looking towards its next phase, which is to connect West Palm Beach and Southeast Florida in general with Orlando. The next phase will feature trains that reach top speed of 125 miles per hour, which would classify the system as HrSR (higher-speed rail; the same class of rail as Acela).
- Washington DC and Baltimore are working on a magnetic levitation train system (Maglev) with top speeds of 311 MPH that will connect both cities with a travel time of 15 minutes or less. Currently the project is still in its earlier pre-development phase, seeking draft environmental review results and route alignment along with the other stipulations that come with a project of this magnitude gaining the final clearance for construction start.
- California is looking into higher speed rail (HrSR) to connect Southern California with Las Vegas, this project will be overseen by Virgin Trains and has been in the works since earlier on in the decade. It's switched hands a number of times but seems to be moving ahead currently.
I'm surprised that Canada isn't pushing harder for true high speed rail between Quebec City and Windsor for the Quebec-Windsor Corridor. That corridor is Canada's central nervous system in many ways. I'm not trying to incite competition here but that corridor is Canada's approximation to the Bos-Wash Corridor, obviously on a smaller scale. There should be more of a push to get it going. There also needs to be high speed rail from Vancouver to Portland, going through Seattle as well, for the Cascadia Corridor. I'd like to see a starter line from Atlanta to Nashville also, that'd be a dope line for sure. Chicago-Detroit-Toronto would be a great true high speed rail line too, always has been a concept line that I've wanted to see come to fruition but the roadblocks for it are huge because it would be dealing with the regulatory environment of two countries (three states and one province) which further complicates matters.
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For me I think Los Angeles's Sixth Street Viaduct replacement bridge will be truly iconic for Los Angeles, similar or more to that the old one did which was featured in movies like Fast and Furious and Grease.
Here is a link to the new bridge : https://www.mmaltzan.com/projects/sixth-street-viaduct/
There are 73,000 new housing units in SFs development pipeline, 40,000 are part of major projects.
Here is one project that interests me.
This is the site of the SF Giants' only real parking lot. The team and Tischman Speyer are developing it.
“Mission Rock” will yield over 1.4 million square feet of office, retail and restaurant space; over 1,300 units of rental housing in buildings rising up to 240 feet in height; 3,100 parking spaces; and nearly 8 acres of open space and parks.
Maybe we can include other types of developments as well, such as general infrastructure, transit, public/civic spaces.
I think most cities in NA have their fair share of condo/high-rise projects, but it would be good to also see how each municipality is improving their urban/civic spaces.
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I'd definitely put Baltimore's Port Covington & Philly's Schuylkill Yards in the same mega-development project tier as DC's Navy Yards.
Both are going to essentially build second downtowns from the ground up and completely change the feel and breadth of their urban cores
I agree, but how far along are those projects in comparison? Last winter I rode through Philly on the train, so I could really see much of any Schuykill Yards as it passes under ground at 30th st station. Port Covington is still in it's infancy at best right now.
DC is still today under going a building boom down in the Navy Yard/Capital Riverfront area, including the new Frederick Douglass Bridge being built which is the most expensive infrastructure project in DC history.
Monterrey is the third largest metropolitan area in Mexico and the second largest economy in Mexico. In the previous two decades, Monterrey has added 1 million people in each decade. In recent years the city has become a sort of captain of industry for numerous sectors in Mexico either behind Mexico City or for some sectors, even ahead; finance, telecommunications, tech, manufacturing, logistics, and aerospace. Monterrey is widely believed to be the most Americanized of all of the non-border cities in Mexico, sharing extensive cultural, social, and economic ties with cities and states across the border.
At the present moment, the city is going through a mass scale of overhauls that are reshaping its public transportation system, city core areas, and its skyline, in addition to the fortunes of the city and the general region's economy.
The biggest development project in Monterrey presently is T.OP Torre Obispado I, a tower that is currently under construction and will measure exactly 300 meters in height (a supertall, Mexico's first) and soon to become the tallest building in the country of Mexico upon its completion.
In 2017, Monterrey witnessed the completion of Torre KOI, a 279 meter (917 feet) tall tower that became the tallest building in Mexico, a full 111 feet taller than the Torre Reforma in Mexico City.
Monterrey's heavy rail rapid transit system opened in 1994 and as of the the last calendar year (2018) it has a daily ridership exceeding 467,000 people. Presently the system only has two lines totaling 20 miles of track length but is currently constructing a third line, which will open in 2 years and further increase the coverage and ridership of the metro system.
I agree, but how far along are those projects in comparison? Last winter I rode through Philly on the train, so I could really see much of any Schuykill Yards as it passes under ground at 30th st station. Port Covington is still in it's infancy at best right now.
Navy Yards has been an ongoing project for the almost 2 decades lol, so I wouldn't even call it "new", more so finishing up.
Schuykill Yards is ramping up now. They are about to break ground on twin ~300' apartment/hotel towers, and the just unveiled a renders for another 400' & 500' mixed use office tower(s).
Port Covington has to essentially re-build ~200 acres of land before they can even construct anything lol. Phase 1 is grading something like 50 acres currently and rebuilding about a 1/4 mile of water front. Once thats done, infrastructure/piping comes next, followed by road work. It's still on track to go vertical end of the year.
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DC is still today under going a building boom down in the Navy Yard/Capital Riverfront area, including the new Frederick Douglass Bridge being built which is the most expensive infrastructure project in DC history.
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Navy Yards has been an ongoing project for the almost 2 decades lol, so I wouldn't even call it "new", more so finishing up.
Schuykill Yards is ramping up now. They are about to break ground on twin ~300' apartment/hotel towers, and the just unveiled a renders for another 400' & 500' mixed use office tower(s).
Port Covington has to essentially re-build ~200 acres of land before they can even construct anything lol. Phase 1 is grading something like 50 acres currently and rebuilding about a 1/4 mile of water front. Once thats done, infrastructure/piping comes next, followed by road work. It's still on track to go vertical end of the year.
The 11th Street Bridge concept looks amazing!
Navy Yard didn't actually get into full swing until Nationals Park was built/opened which was 2009. When the financial crisis hit in 08' things paused a bit. The entire Capital Riverfront/Navy Yard area is still very much a construction site, and honestly still only about 60% complete. There are still more blocks to fill in. I also throw Buzzard Point and the Wharf in there and those are not close to finished construction either.
Looking forward to each of these projects/development nodes growing. Port Covington is going to be decades in the making, and could have really got the boost it needed if HQ2 went there.
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