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Banking on Borrowed Land

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Land banks and land trusts have overlapping missions—stewarding land—but different frameworks and financing. Nationally, land banks rely on myriad funding sources and strategies to cover expenses, including real estate revenue and nonrecurring government support. An abandoned pocket park, prior to WRLC’s improvements.

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"The people of Los Angeles waited patiently for half a decade to make use of a useless site"

Deezen

This billion-dollar tomb to foreign real-estate speculation in the western corner of downtown Los Angeles (DTLA), laid hollow since 2019, was revived early this year by graffiti artists and paragliders that made it their night-time playground.

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Guardian Building Bridge

A Detroit Architect's Journal

It was nicknamed the Cathedral of Finance and is particularly known for it's vaulted Lobby and pewabic tile decorated Banking Hall. One year later, DTE Energy sells the Guardian Building to a private real estate investor: The Sterling Group. Rowland, who at the time was employed by Smith, Hinchman & Grylls.

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Is There a Way Out of Hawaii’s Housing Crisis?

Dwell

The cost of real estate has steadily increased since then, fueled by tropical allure and increased accessibility, with only brief and mild downturns. Some of it is driven by locals trying to hold on, but Hawaii real estate is also popular purely for investment. Homes are on the market for an average of just 10 days.

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Detroit Walking Tour

A Detroit Architect's Journal

Purchased by Bedrock Real Estate Service (Dan Gilbert) in 2015, it is undergoing a complete restoration with a scheduled opening in 2018. In 2015, Dan Gilbert gained ownership and in 2017 began renovation of the building into apartments. The ground floor was once home to the SkyBar Lounge.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Sharon Davis ’s Women’s Opportunity Center in Rwanda won both the Popular and Jury A+Award for Architecture +Community in 2015 and it isn’t hard to see why: the complex is one of the most inspiring community-oriented projects in recent memory. Left: Women’s Opportunity Center, Rwanda; right: Sharon Davis, image via Curbed. Sharon Davis.

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Scottish Architecture News: Buildings in Scotland

e-architect

BDP has helped complete the delivery of phase one of the new St James Quarter, Edinburgh, working with client Nuveen Real Estate to create a new destination in the heart of the capital. In 2015 she was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her services to housing. 7 Oct 2021. St James Quarter Edinburgh.