Pasadena, California Historic street grid reestablished. Old mall retrofitted so storefronts face revived streets, Paseo Colorado rather than internal corridors. Project Facts SITE: 11 acres / urban USE OF EXISTING STRUCTURE: Partially demolished, old store slots newly opened to street COMMERCIAL: 560,000 sf OFFICE: 10,000 sf flex space RESIDENTIAL: 387 rental units CIVIC SPACE: Historic streets revived, connected to historic Civic Center, public plazas, pedestrian only paseo ACCESS: Excellent access to 2 interstate highways, served by 4 city bus lines and the Pasadena Arts Bus Development Team Photo courtesy Developers Diversified Realty. Copyright Don Snyder Photography Inc., 2004. DEVELOPER: TrizecHahn RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPER: Post Properties PLANNERS: TrizecHahn CORRIDOR PLANNERS: Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTS: RTKL and Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut, and Kuhn Plan courtesy Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists. Description Pasadena, adjacent to the historic Old Town 374,000 square feet of retail space, a 14-screen Paseo Colorado is the redevelopment of a shopping district. The downtown mall never did well Pacific Theaters Cinema, 64,000 square feet of 1978 enclosed regional mall site into a mixed-use economically, especially after one anchor departed restaurants, a 37,000-square-foot Gelson’s high- district fronting Pasadena’s Colorado Boulevard, and another was converted to a clearance store in end supermarket, and a 24,000-square-foot Equinox the internationally renowned Rose Parade route. the early 1990s. By the time of redevelopment, the Fitness club. Macy’s is the one remaining retail The development restores Garfield Street, the city’s mall was losing business to a reenergized historic anchor from the original mall. The project has eight historic civic axis from the Beaux Arts Civic Center downtown. levels--two levels of subterranean parking, two to the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, which was closed Developers of Paseo turned the old mall levels of retail space, and four levels of housing. The off when the enclosed mall was originally built. The inside out to make storefronts face the street, site encompasses three city blocks and is within two old mall, Plaza Pasadena, was approximately 600,000 while retaining a pedestrian-only paseo through blocks of Old Pasadena, a successful historic district square feet on an 11-acre urban superblock site, the middle of the development. The new mixed-use that serves as a regional destination for day-and- with an off-site garage, bringing the total mall site center, which opened in September 2001, contains night entertainment and specialty shopping. to almost 15 acres. The area was part of downtown 560,000 square feet of commercial uses, including 19 THE CONGRESS FOR THE NEW URBANISM Boca Raton, Florida Mixed-use, multi-story development anchored by arts Mizner Park museum and central civic plaza Description was completed in 1998. The new Mizner Park was one of the mixed-use district includes 236,000 first large-scale mall conversions square feet of retail space, 272 in the country. The site is the for- rental units, 260,000 square feet of mer 28-acre enclosed Boca Raton office space, and cultural facilities, Mall, located about a mile and including the Museum of Cartoon a half from Interstate 95 and sur- Arts. Mizner Park features a new rounded by low-density strip cen- linear street system and a grand ters and single-family residences. parkway plaza that terminates at Boca Raton Mall was built in what the new 5,000-seat Count de Ho- was the geographic center of the ernle amphitheater next to the city in 1967, but was soon eclipsed Boca Raton Museum of Art. The by Town Center at Boca Raton as project has received recognition development moved west. The from the Urban Land Institute and mall struggled until the city began the International Council of Shop- to redevelop the project in 1987. ping Centers, as well as praise form the Sierra Club of Florida. Photo courtesy Cooper, Carry & Associates. Built in phases, Mizner Park Project Facts SITE: 28 acres / suburban USE OF EXISTING STRUCTURE: Demolished RETAIL: 236,000 sf OFFICE: 262,000 sf RESIDENTIAL: 272 rental units CIVIC SPACE: Central plaza, park with bandshell, Boca Raton Museum of Art ACCESS: 1.5 miles from interstate Development Team DEVELOPER: Crocker and Company, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association PLANNERS AND ARCHITECTS: Cooper Carry & Associates Courtesy Thomas Dolan Architecture. 23 THE CONGRESS FOR THE NEW URBANISM.