Developer Masterplanning Permits Zoning 
Next Portland
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Construction is underway on Slabtown Savier, a two-building development in NW Portland’s emerging Slabtown neighborhood. The development, designed by SERA Architects for developer Greystar , will include two buildings with 363 market rate apartments. The site was most recently used as surface parking.
Next Portland
MAY 24, 2022
Next Portland covers the highlights of the Early Assistance applications, Land Use Reviews and Building Permits processed each week. The Phase 1/Block 1 development preserves all existing housing in the Douglas Apartments and townhouse portions of the site.This proposal for the southern parcel of Block 1 will provide 329 dwelling units.
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Community Architect Daily
DECEMBER 6, 2023
For sake of argument, let's set aside qualms about the high-rises or the question why giving a developer public parkland for for-profit development is the height of brilliancy. At this point it may be useful to recall that zoning was invented to protect the public. For any developer. A bad deal.
Community Architect Daily
JANUARY 14, 2024
In an unprecedented well coordinated effort of selling the notion to the general public that Baltimore would be better off if MCB's HarborPlace renderings became reality, the Mayor, the local councilman and the developer himself spin misleading or outright deceptive narratives. See this PBS documentary ). This, too misses the mark.
ArchiDiaries
AUGUST 27, 2022
The design approach for the villa development is the combination of individuality and distinct community quality. The Fairyland Guorui Villa complex is located in Beijing’s Miyun Economic & Technical Development Zone 1. The garden landscaping of the whole development corresponds to the surrounding natural environment.
Community Architect Daily
JANUARY 19, 2024
In recent years planners have become much more aware of the exclusionary effects that zoning has had on people and their towns and cities. The old zoning separated neatly housing from everything else presumably in the interest of public health. Dismantling the legacy zoning system is no small task.
Community Architect
APRIL 20, 2024
Traces of San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, Boston's Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, promoted by a visionary developer, designed by a Harvard Dean of architecture, nearly defeated in a referendum, those are the ingredients that made Baltimore's HarborPlace a model for urban waterfronts around the world nearly half a century ago.
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