The strip mall redevelopment project in a small Texas town shows how to reuse extra parking to create new homes.
According to an article in Tiffany Owens Reed’s Parking Reform Network, the Adaptive Reuse project is a partnership between progressive real estate developers and Habitat for Humanity, building 16 affordable townhouse units on the site. “The facility offers not only opportunities to own a home for residents, but also opportunities to save on car ownership by improving access to shops, amenities and jobs, and being located in the city more centrally.”
Developer Monte Anderson explains his approach to incremental development and provides some pointers. Work in your own backyard. Embracing the value of small projects. Accepting partnerships.
The proposed Texas bill, Senate Bill 840, would facilitate this type of development by “being able to build mixed-use and multi-family right-wing housing on land owned in commercial and retail districts.” For now, according to Anderson, “coordinating with other property owners adjacent to the parking lot and ensuring the required plat, infrastructure, funding and approvals is the only task that is most sustainable.
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