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All cities have area's where they can improve. Neighborhoods often anchor entire area's to revitalize and push development pressure to area's that need it. Some cities lack in other area's like variety in housing type or innovation in food offerings.
Brewerytown has the potential to become an anchor for North Philly revitalization. Ponce City Market offers a new experience in Atlanta as a national renown market. Union Market has the potential to create a new food innovation hub in D.C. incubating culinary creativity. The Art District in downtown L.A. has the potential to become one of America's great urban densely built Art Districts.
Which one of these neighborhoods or developments will have the greatest impact on their city long term? Justify why you feel the neighborhood you choose will have the most significant lasting effects on the city as a whole. Most of all, why is this neighborhood or development so important to the city overall?
Four neighborhoods with different makeup and plans.
Brewerytown Philadelphia is full of warehouses that are about to be redeveloped.
Ponce City Market in Atlanta is a major mixed use development in the Old Fourth Ward that will spur major urban development.
Union Market is a brand new neighborhood in D.C. anchored by a new food market with plans to build housing, office, hotel, and retail.
Art District in Downtown L.A. is one of the creative hubs in downtown L.A. with plans on the table to transform the neighborhood with more urban development.
I haven't been to any of these except for the AD in DTLA, so I will start with what I know.
I actually just went to the Arts District while in LA yesterday, and judging from what I saw, there has already been vast improvements to the area. Everything looks much more renovated and clean compared to just a few years ago. There is a lot more to do to make it a full fledged urban neighborhood, but there are already a couple huge projects in line that will really send this place over the edge.
Like I said, I'm not familiar with the other options, but relatively speaking, the AD in LA has really changed from being an odor filled homeless mecca to being quite the livable neighborhood, and will only get better as time goes on and more and more investment is poured into renovating old warehouses, new developments, etc.
Here's the link to Ponce City Market in Atlanta for those that are interested: Ponce City Market
This is the redevelopment of the former 2 million square foot Sears distribution center for the Southeast into a mixed-use retail/office/residential complex. It is directly tied-in to the Atlanta BeltLine Atlanta BeltLine // Where Atlanta Comes Together., and has already spurred massive redevelopment in the neighborhood. It's opening in phases this year, and is by the same developer behind Chelsea Market in NY.
Union Market is a warehouse district in D.C. that is being repurposed into a brand new mixed use neighborhood focused on culinary innovation. This neighborhood is important to D.C. because it's the only one of it's kind in the entire region. \
Below are some links to things happening in the neighborhood:
Any reason you selected Brewerytown? There is a lot more new development and old Warehouse conversion going on in NoLibs/Fishtown/Delaware Waterfront.
Well, the main premise for the thread was to show an area that isn't really built yet which may pose the potential to act as an anchor for a blighted neighborhood, or fulfill a need that particular city may lack. In Philadelphia's case, the potential to repurpose all those warehouses could anchor that neighborhood and provide a catalyst for redevelopment northwest of Center City.
I don't have any articles to provide, but I can tell you from experience that Brewerytown (at least as I interpret its borders--Cecil B. Moore Avenue/the Northeast Corridor tracks to the north, Girard Avenue to the south, College Avenue/25th Street to the east, and the Schuylkill River to the west) is mostly built out at this point. Aside from a few holes that still need to be filled in (which is mostly city-owned land), Brewerytown has been built out to such an extent that the southern edge of Strawberry Mansion is starting to see new construction. Also, the formerly large and undeveloped parcels on the Fairmount side of Girard Avenue (26th and Poplar and 27th and Girard) have filled in/are filling in with new construction, so there is no longer a noticeable gap between the two neighborhoods.
At this point, Brewerytown needs additional retail along Girard Avenue. Cecil B. Moore Avenue could fall into the same boat in the coming years, but Girard Avenue is the main commercial stretch at the moment.
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