Can transit-oriented development work along Wasatch Front?
Great Recession likely to blame for lack of success at some sites
Most transit-oriented developments planned for the Wasatch Front possess many or all of those crucial variables, which gives Reid hope that those projects will be successful.
And he said it's far too early to grade transit-oriented development along the Wasatch Front or the success of a specific project.
Take Birkhill at Fireclay, for example. Only a fraction of the project has been developed as part of Murray's 97-acre Fireclay redevelopment area.
"How can you possibly judge a development that's going to have apartments, single-family homes, lots of retail and office (space) based on a single building? It just doesn't make sense," Reid said. "My sense is that Fireclay will be a pretty good TOD."
But Fireclay, like transit-oriented developments along the Wasatch Front as a whole, needs time to grow up, he said.
"Let's wait about 10 years until more of it is built and a lot more of the (transit) system is in place," Reid said. "It's going to be a whole different ballgame."
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The major problem with this type of development is the lack of real jobs. Planners tend to think that everyone either works in an office like they do or at a retail job - these are the only jobs that are provided by TOD. For most people that's not More..
I am sure though things are going so well though that the exorbitant wages of UTA Execs will go up because we need to pay the best salaries for such foresight, or at least let the ones on the board who want to buy and sell land next to track More..
"...there's little activity at Hamlet Homes' residential and commercial development, Birkhill at Fireclay."
Thats because real people want to live at a nice-sounding place---not somewhere with a hoity-toitey, ridiculous, made up More..