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April 23, 2012 | 12:01 am

Infrastructure Deficit Disorder: The doctor is in

This past week, Chuck Marohn and Justin Burslie of Strong Towns gave their Curbside Chat in the beloved San Diego neighborhood of Hillcrest. Chuck’s visit was possible through a fun collaboration between Walt Chambers of Great Streets San Diego, Ben Nicholls, Executive Director of the Hillcrest Business Association, and myself. Forty of San Diego’s most engaged built environment professionals filled the room with a happy-hour sense of electricity in the air.

Chuck then proceeded to ground that spark.

Category Development, Financing, Planning and Design, Public Policy7 CommentsTags Chuck Marohn, Great Street San Diego, Howard Blackson, Joe Minicozzi, Justin Burslie, Light Imprint, Scott Polikov, Strong Towns

April 9, 2012 | 9:55 am

Why Generation Y is Causing the Great Migration of the 21st Century

Just after the close of World War II, the last Great Migration in the United States — the move from the city to the new suburbs — began to emerge, fueled by new roads, low congestion, and modest energy costs. It was a new beginning, a chance to shake off the past, and it came complete with the promise of more privacy, more safety, and easier financing.

Not surprisingly, Americans bought in.

After that, it didn’t take long for the preferred retailers to do likewise, abandoning the city and following their customers to the suburbs. The suburban single family home on a large lot became synonymous with the American Dream.

Category Development, Experience, Financing, Planning and Design, Public Policy, Sales and Marketing84 CommentsTags Baby Boomers, Chris Nelson, Generation Y, Joe Minicozzi, Joe Molinaro, Millenials, Nathan Norris, Shyam Kannan

February 27, 2012 | 12:01 am

Dream Home for the New Era: Compact, connected & mortgage-free?

The future is here. And it’s for lease.

Even before the Great Recession, real estate market analysts Todd Zimmerman, Laurie Volk and Chris Nelson were patiently explaining the demography-is-destiny argument for an inevitable shift in American housing. It’s all about the numbers.

Category Development, Financing, Planning and Design7 CommentsTags Baby Boomers, Ben Brown, Chris Nelson, Christopher Leinberger, cottage living, cottages, Cottages at Oak Park, Doug Bibby, katrina cottage, Lesley Deutch, Millennials, Patrick Doherty, Zimmerman Volk

February 20, 2012 | 12:01 am

Retail on My Mind

Seems I’ve got retail on my mind. It all started in December, with Bob Gibb’s Placemaking@Work webinar, whose tweetchat sparked a Neighbourhood Retail BlogOff led by Steve Mouzon. Then last week Victor Dover’s PM@W webinar followed up with ideas about tactical retail, where he talked about the next version of mixed use being smaller, quicker, and more organic.

Category Development, Economic Development, Financing, Planning and Design, Sales and Marketing13 CommentsTags Bob Gibbs, Dekalb Market, farmers markets, food trucks, Hazel Borys, retail

February 13, 2012 | 12:01 am

Money, It’s a Gas: New Economy development financing

In startling alignment with James Howard Kunstler’s stark predictions, ULI’s 2012 Report, “What’s Next: Real Estate in the New Economy,” bubbly concludes: “The real estate world is hurtling into a different place and time. Change is coming at a faster pace with more uncertain consequences. Success will take on different forms and risks will increase. Standing pat or ignoring new realities is not possible. Notably, investment will gravitate to places that welcome business and view public investments — in education, infrastructure, and innovation — as prerequisites for progress and economic sustainability.”