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Brickell City Centre Retail
Downtown Miami
Developer: Swire Properties
Designer: Arquitectonica
Total space: 5.4 million sq. ft.
Total retail: 565,000 sq. ft.
Features: This $1.05 billion project will include EAST, a hotel with 263 rooms and 89 serviced apartments; two towers housing 780 residential condominiums and two additional towers offering 260,000 sq. ft. of class-A office space. Akerman LLP is the lead office tenant, having leased 80 percent of the space. Brickell City is one of the largest U.S. projects to be LEED-certified for Neighborhood Development. The project’s luxury shopping center features Climate Ribbon, a $20 million elevated trellis made of glass, steel and fabric, that offers extensive environmental benefits. Its continuous glass surface is planned to both create a comfortable, energy-efficient microclimate and connect all of the project’s design elements. The retail center is set to include a 35,677-sq.-ft. Cinemex Theatre dine-in cinema with 622 seats. Car2Go car-share company will provide a pickup and drop-off center for 280 low-emission smart cars.
Opening: Late 2015 (condominiums, hotel and offices) and 2016 (retail)
Developer: Swire Properties
Designer: Arquitectonica
Total space: 5.4 million sq. ft.
Total retail: 565,000 sq. ft.
Features: This $1.05 billion project will include EAST, a hotel with 263 rooms and 89 serviced apartments; two towers housing 780 residential condominiums and two additional towers offering 260,000 sq. ft. of class-A office space. Akerman LLP is the lead office tenant, having leased 80 percent of the space. Brickell City is one of the largest U.S. projects to be LEED-certified for Neighborhood Development. The project’s luxury shopping center features Climate Ribbon, a $20 million elevated trellis made of glass, steel and fabric, that offers extensive environmental benefits. Its continuous glass surface is planned to both create a comfortable, energy-efficient microclimate and connect all of the project’s design elements. The retail center is set to include a 35,677-sq.-ft. Cinemex Theatre dine-in cinema with 622 seats. Car2Go car-share company will provide a pickup and drop-off center for 280 low-emission smart cars.
Opening: Late 2015 (condominiums, hotel and offices) and 2016 (retail)
Grandscape
The Colony
Dallas–Ft. Worth
Developer: Nebraska Furniture Mart
Designer: O’Brien Architects
Total space: 3.9 million sq. ft.
Total retail: Over 1.86 million sq.-ft.
Features: Sited for more than 400 acres at the center of Dallas–Ft. Worth, Grandscape is to include retail as well as a convention center, hotels, a spa, restaurants, an outdoor amphitheater and entertainment centers, and the project is being billed as a city within a city. Grandscape’s anchor store, Nebraska Furniture Mart, will comprise 25 percent of the project’s space. It will be built on 90 acres and include a 560,000-sq.-ft. retail showroom and 1.3 million-sq.-ft. distribution center. The project will also be a “smart mall,” with a state-of-the-art interchange on the adjacent freeway, expanded thoroughfares to provide increased roadway capacity and a command center and website to coordinate traffic demands and communicate with shoppers as to available parking areas and the most efficient entrance and exit routes.
Opening: Spring 2015
Dallas–Ft. Worth
Developer: Nebraska Furniture Mart
Designer: O’Brien Architects
Total space: 3.9 million sq. ft.
Total retail: Over 1.86 million sq.-ft.
Features: Sited for more than 400 acres at the center of Dallas–Ft. Worth, Grandscape is to include retail as well as a convention center, hotels, a spa, restaurants, an outdoor amphitheater and entertainment centers, and the project is being billed as a city within a city. Grandscape’s anchor store, Nebraska Furniture Mart, will comprise 25 percent of the project’s space. It will be built on 90 acres and include a 560,000-sq.-ft. retail showroom and 1.3 million-sq.-ft. distribution center. The project will also be a “smart mall,” with a state-of-the-art interchange on the adjacent freeway, expanded thoroughfares to provide increased roadway capacity and a command center and website to coordinate traffic demands and communicate with shoppers as to available parking areas and the most efficient entrance and exit routes.
Opening: Spring 2015
American Dream Meadowlands
Carlstadt, N.J.
Developer: Triple Five Group
Designer: Rockwell Group
Total space: 2.8 million sq. ft.
Total retail: 2.16 million sq. ft.
Features: Along with over 400 stores and restaurants and the world’s first Kosher food hall, this $1.8 billion, five-story complex is to include an overabundance of entertainment options, including: a year-round indoor amusement and water park, measuring 639,000 sq. ft. and featuring 30 rides, based on DreamWorks Animation, including the Pepsi Globe, a 287-ft. Ferris wheel with 26 climate-controlled, gondola-shaped passenger capsules, overlooking the New Jersey Turnpike and providing a 25-minute view of Manhattan; a water park; the 12-story/800-ft. Big Snow America, the first indoor ski and snowboarding park in the Western Hemisphere; an indoor skating rink; an aquarium; a 26-screen movie theater featuring an outdoor lounge overlooking Manhattan; and a 2,400-to-3,000-seat performing arts center.
Opening: Fall 2016
Developer: Triple Five Group
Designer: Rockwell Group
Total space: 2.8 million sq. ft.
Total retail: 2.16 million sq. ft.
Features: Along with over 400 stores and restaurants and the world’s first Kosher food hall, this $1.8 billion, five-story complex is to include an overabundance of entertainment options, including: a year-round indoor amusement and water park, measuring 639,000 sq. ft. and featuring 30 rides, based on DreamWorks Animation, including the Pepsi Globe, a 287-ft. Ferris wheel with 26 climate-controlled, gondola-shaped passenger capsules, overlooking the New Jersey Turnpike and providing a 25-minute view of Manhattan; a water park; the 12-story/800-ft. Big Snow America, the first indoor ski and snowboarding park in the Western Hemisphere; an indoor skating rink; an aquarium; a 26-screen movie theater featuring an outdoor lounge overlooking Manhattan; and a 2,400-to-3,000-seat performing arts center.
Opening: Fall 2016
University Station
Westwood, Mass.
Developer: Joint venture between New England Development, Eastern Real Estate and National Development
Designer: Elkus Manfredi Architects
Total space: 2 million sq. ft.
Total retail: 500,000 sq. ft.
Features: This transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly project is located adjacent to an Amtrak and MBTA Commuter Rail Station, and is being built on 130 acres of previously blighted commercial industrial buildings. Its sustainable design features several renewable energy elements. It will include a 160-room hotel and 350,000 sq. ft. of class-A office space. Its retail component will be anchored by a Wegmans and a Target. Additional retail will include specialty shops, home goods and housewares stores, sporting goods, a florist, a specialty paper and card shop, fashion retailers and family-style and fine-dining options. The project will also feature 350 luxury residential units, including 69 affordable housing units, and a two-story, 61,000-sq.-ft. building with up to 100 units of assisted-living and memory-care residential units and 65 parking places. A Life Time Fitness center will be housed in a three-story, 125,643-sq.-ft. building including indoor and outdoor swimming pools. Surface parking at the fitness center will be available for 568 cars and 16 bicycles. An 18-acre park is also being developed.
Opening: 2015 (retail) and 2016 (residential, office and hotel)
Developer: Joint venture between New England Development, Eastern Real Estate and National Development
Designer: Elkus Manfredi Architects
Total space: 2 million sq. ft.
Total retail: 500,000 sq. ft.
Features: This transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly project is located adjacent to an Amtrak and MBTA Commuter Rail Station, and is being built on 130 acres of previously blighted commercial industrial buildings. Its sustainable design features several renewable energy elements. It will include a 160-room hotel and 350,000 sq. ft. of class-A office space. Its retail component will be anchored by a Wegmans and a Target. Additional retail will include specialty shops, home goods and housewares stores, sporting goods, a florist, a specialty paper and card shop, fashion retailers and family-style and fine-dining options. The project will also feature 350 luxury residential units, including 69 affordable housing units, and a two-story, 61,000-sq.-ft. building with up to 100 units of assisted-living and memory-care residential units and 65 parking places. A Life Time Fitness center will be housed in a three-story, 125,643-sq.-ft. building including indoor and outdoor swimming pools. Surface parking at the fitness center will be available for 568 cars and 16 bicycles. An 18-acre park is also being developed.
Opening: 2015 (retail) and 2016 (residential, office and hotel)
City Point
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Developer: Acadia Realty Trust and Washington Square Partners
Designer: CookFox Architects
Total space: 1.8 million sq. ft.
Total retail: 675,000 sq. ft.
Features: This $1 billion project will include an 84,000-sq.-ft. ground floor retail area; a 64,000-sq.-ft. lower level featuring smaller tenants and 35,000 sq. ft. for food operators; one of Target’s first City Target stores, in 100,000 sq. ft., on the second floor; a 140,000-sq.-ft. Century 21 on the third and fourth floors; and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on the fifth floor retail. Most stores will be larger than 2,000 sq. ft. Adjacent will be more than 17,000 residential units. A 1-acre rooftop park is being developed over a 700-car automated garage. Retail tenants will focus on fine foods, home goods, fashion and international products.
Opening: March 2016
Developer: Acadia Realty Trust and Washington Square Partners
Designer: CookFox Architects
Total space: 1.8 million sq. ft.
Total retail: 675,000 sq. ft.
Features: This $1 billion project will include an 84,000-sq.-ft. ground floor retail area; a 64,000-sq.-ft. lower level featuring smaller tenants and 35,000 sq. ft. for food operators; one of Target’s first City Target stores, in 100,000 sq. ft., on the second floor; a 140,000-sq.-ft. Century 21 on the third and fourth floors; and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on the fifth floor retail. Most stores will be larger than 2,000 sq. ft. Adjacent will be more than 17,000 residential units. A 1-acre rooftop park is being developed over a 700-car automated garage. Retail tenants will focus on fine foods, home goods, fashion and international products.
Opening: March 2016
Liberty Center
West Chester, Ohio
Developer: Steiner & Associates
Designer: KA Architects
Total space: 1.1 million sq. ft./64 acres
Total retail: 632,000 sq. ft. (280,000 sq. ft. for department stores; 352,000 sq. ft. for specialty retail) Features: Mixed-use development, including 75,000 sq. ft. office space; 220 units/190,000 sq. ft. of residential space; 150-room hotel.
Opening: Fall 2015
Developer: Steiner & Associates
Designer: KA Architects
Total space: 1.1 million sq. ft./64 acres
Total retail: 632,000 sq. ft. (280,000 sq. ft. for department stores; 352,000 sq. ft. for specialty retail) Features: Mixed-use development, including 75,000 sq. ft. office space; 220 units/190,000 sq. ft. of residential space; 150-room hotel.
Opening: Fall 2015
Village at Westfield Topanga
Woodland Hills, Calif.
Developer: Westfield Group
Designer: Johnson Fain
Total space: 535,144 sq. ft.
Total retail: 444,744 sq. ft.
Features: This $450 million, open-air, pedestrian-friendly project is being built on the former Warner Center horse ranch. It is set to consist of a 247-ft. hotel with 275 rooms, an unknown number of residential units and 285,000 sq. ft. of office space. Retail will feature a 165,759-sq.-ft. Costco as its anchor store with approximately 100 other boutique shops, indoor and outdoor restaurants and cafes. Amenities include a gym, children’s play areas, hanging basket chairs, a luxury spa, several community centers, a yoga studio and a gas station. Visitors will pass by a grove of 100-year-old California sycamores, olive trees and Mexican fan palms and several water features, including a transparent fountain that creates the illusion of “walking on water.” Courtyard landscaping will feature native California grass and agave. There will also be patios with fire pits for public use, shaded overhangs, a bocce ball court and areas for concerts and performances.
Opening: Fall 2015
Developer: Westfield Group
Designer: Johnson Fain
Total space: 535,144 sq. ft.
Total retail: 444,744 sq. ft.
Features: This $450 million, open-air, pedestrian-friendly project is being built on the former Warner Center horse ranch. It is set to consist of a 247-ft. hotel with 275 rooms, an unknown number of residential units and 285,000 sq. ft. of office space. Retail will feature a 165,759-sq.-ft. Costco as its anchor store with approximately 100 other boutique shops, indoor and outdoor restaurants and cafes. Amenities include a gym, children’s play areas, hanging basket chairs, a luxury spa, several community centers, a yoga studio and a gas station. Visitors will pass by a grove of 100-year-old California sycamores, olive trees and Mexican fan palms and several water features, including a transparent fountain that creates the illusion of “walking on water.” Courtyard landscaping will feature native California grass and agave. There will also be patios with fire pits for public use, shaded overhangs, a bocce ball court and areas for concerts and performances.
Opening: Fall 2015
