Curbed June 2019 Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the Southeast’s biggest cities, is short 34,000 affordable housing units. A booming job market has attracted 100,000 new households to the city since 2000, and supply hasn’t kept up with demand. In Salt Lake City, Utah, there are more families than available places to live, a shortage of about 54,000 […]
Curbed June 2019 If you had asked Paul Smith Jr., mayor of Union Beach, New Jersey, if he thought he’d still be talking about Hurricane Sandy today, more than six and a half years after the storm made landfall, he would have said no. But years after the storm pummeled New Jersey’s coastline, Sandy is […]
Curbed June 2019 Timothy Paule’s path to revitalizing vacant lots in his hometown of Detroit started with a persistent cough. In the fall of 2016, the commercial photographer found himself sick and tired from a cold that wouldn’t quit. After a litany of medicines failed him, someone manning a stall at a local farmers market […]
Curbed July 2019 Nearly everything about The 78, a massive redevelopment project reshaping an abandoned 62-acre parcel just southwest of Chicago’s downtown, is big. Vacant for 90 years, the riverfront property will be transformed into space for 24,000 workers, new corporate campuses, a high-tech research center, and 12 acres of riverfront parkland after an expected $7.2 […]
Curbed September 2019 For Michael Pickens, a 31-year-old working in tech sales in the Bay Area, buying a home for his family isn’t an option. He lives with his wife and two kids in Campbell, California, the same town where he grew up, in an apartment across the street from the middle school he attended. […]
Curbed September 2019 A good place to start to understand Milwaukee is on a street with two names. During a bus tour earlier this month of the city’s near north side—a mostly residential stretch of homes, past the more familiar downtown and the districts of squat brick brewery buildings that have been converted into lofts, […]
Curbed October 2019 Kate Yanov was working in Singapore last November when she heard about the program. A 38-year-old “digital nomad”—she runs her own company, Property Protect, that offers automatic protection for Airbnb hosts—she was looking to move back to the U.S. with her husband, settle down, and have kids when friends and family started sending […]
Curbed October 2019 The mural, a train trailed by ribbons of color, is wholesome enough for a children’s book. It’s actually a paint-by-number artwork, which various residents colored in. For Arvada, Colorado, the Denver suburb that placed the mural downtown for the grand opening of its new Gold Line commuter rail station, it’s a symbol […]
Curbed October 2019 The latest high-end real estate amenity: living longer. At least that’s the view of South Florida real estate developer Rishi Kapoor, whose Location Ventures has begun selling units in a forthcoming development in Coral Gables that Kapoor believes will deliver the promise of a healthier home, which he says is “not just […]
Curbed November 2019 Before Walmart became the nation’s biggest employer, before it was synonymous with big-box retail, and before it was an international business competing with Amazon, it was a simple local store selling home goods in northwest Arkansas. In the company’s hometown of Bentonville, visitors to the Walmart Museum can see a to-scale replica […]