The owners of the Anaheim Ducks professional hockey team have unveiled OCVibe, a vision that could bring a new concert arena, 825,000 square feet of office spaces, 2,800 residential units, and 30 acres of public open spaces to the areas immediately surrounding Anaheim's Honda Center.
Currently organized as a sea of parking lots designed to serve the stadium, the project site also includes the ARTIC rail station, which is set to receive California High Speed Rail service in 2033. An existing office block will grow to include a new 20-story office tower. The offices will be surrounded by apartment blocks organized around the existing street grid.
The western edge of the site is set to feature open spaces that connect to the adjacent Santa Ana River. Meanwhile, the opposite side of the 115-acre site is wrapped in parking structures containing 5,800 parking stalls that face California State Route 57.
An architect has not been named. The project is slated to take shape in phases following regulatory approval with anticipated project completions in 2024 and 2028, in time, according to the owners, for the 2028 Olympic games in Los Angeles.
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You might want to put that "owners" into the title. Otherwise, imagine hockey players fighting it out with backhoes... could be fun to watch! ("The retail goes over there, buddy. I'm not gonna tell ya again.")
There were similar plans a decade ago for Dodger Stadium's parking lots. And now? Still parking lots. That's a much different site, though.
The concept is similar to that for mall parking-lot redevelopment from two decades ago. Very intriguing idea that generated lots (sorry) of design, but I don't know how many such projects were ever completed.
See this which discusses a project underway in a suburb of Seattle and references some projects completed in Tyson’s Corner in Virginia. But agreed, as much as I (and others) were intrigued by the idea of 'Retrofitting Suburbia' doesn't seem to have resulted in lots of projects. On a somewhat smaller scale, my old employer expanded some of their specialty clinics into an old Sears...
Thanks for these, Nam. Yes, it seems that adaptive reuse of mall space (for some interesting programming) has been much more common than big, whole-site redesign in the new urbanist mode.
Further update; via ASLA's coverage of virtual CNU gathering, ft research news from Ellen Dunham-Jones "Through her research into 2,000 suburban developments that have been retrofitted for other uses, she has found that 'urbanism is the new amenity.' In the suburbs, people increasingly want walkable, mixed-use developments that offer 'experiential retail.' Dead malls have meant growth for small town main streets. Dead strip malls are being reused as offices or healthcare centers. Big box stores have been converted into markets with small vendors."
2k actually seems like a respectable number of case studies/precedents. Wonder if that is national, international etc...?
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