I just love this thread! It’s always good to learn from others.
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Atlanta, Old Fourth Ward neighborhood
Hotel Clermont rooftop bar and food cart:
Ponce City Market Food Hall & Lofts & Everything… with a building cut-through path to the “Beltline” (massively popular greenway path)
The Beltline: (the modern building has a ground floor Kroger grocery store that has the main entrance right on the greenway)
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Oh, I bet you had fun at Clermont! 
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Found this from a Reddit post! It’s a nice reminder about why infrastructure projects are so slow and expensive in America -and how we could have something better.
Alexandria, VA. Proof you don’t need tall buildings to have a good downtown area. In saying that, Alexandria does have taller buildings and quite a bit of density with the crazy amount of townhomes. Definitely one of my favorite cities I’ve ever been to.
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I too like it but, it’s got that DC adjacency that’s always difficult for me to find a great comparison elsewhere - part of that feels like why it’s always registers because it doesn’t have the comps ?
Austin gets it:
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The city’s new transit plan, called Project Connect, will build a new rail system with 31 stations, four new rapid bus routes, new on-demand shuttles to take people to transit stations, and new park-and-ride stations. The plan, funded by an increase in property taxes, also includes $300 million to help make sure that as transportation improves in some neighborhoods and housing values rise, residents aren’t displaced from their homes due to gentrification. They’ll do this by offering rent subsidies, building more affordable housing, and giving financial assistance to home buyers. A second measure will invest millions in new bike lanes, sidewalks, urban trails, intersections that are redesigned for safety, and other infrastructure, including a new pedestrian bridge.
Nice!
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Also Austin,
Might be one of the few US cities with a supertall in the works.
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Oh that parking podium…
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WHAT??? How will the neighbors deal with the shadows??? And can you imagine the massive amounts of traffic this thing will produce???
JK
Good for Austin. It seems they have a DX-74 zoning classification.
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Shadows are probably welcome in Austin most of the year…
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They like big shadows. It’s Texas after all.
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this is raleigh but im not sure if another city has done this…i guess the fate of malls is uncertain in some areas. these are some years back but it seemed that triangle town center had a sidewalk around its circumference…perhaps if it had been a bike path and a few other things for kiddies a minivan trip with bikes on a rack for ice cream and a few loops around the facility might have been worth the trip.
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Maybe Crabtree Valley Mall should take note of that waterfront dining and just embrace it… 
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I wish Crabtree Valley Mall would do something. Ever since they fell under new management, all development there went silent.
They are in serious survival mode right now.
but Cary has figured out how to do a downtown signature park correctly. Not spending a decade to remove trees and make a sidewalk (looking at you, Moore Square).
