In The News : 2003

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The railyard moment: a new neighborhood for downtown
Dec 7, 2003
Sacramento Bee Editorial For more than a decade Sacramento has dreamed of turning the abandoned and polluted railyard downtown into an urban neighborhood worthy of its central place in the region. It may finally get a chance to move beyond dreams.

Neighborhood by design
Dec 4, 2003
Thousands of residences at heart of railyard plan by Mary Lynne Vellinga and Terri Hardy

Jerde named design architect for World of Coca-Cola
Nov 20, 2003
Work is progressing, albeit quietly, on the new World of Coca-Cola. by Maria Saporta Viewing article online rquries one-time free registration

Shopping at The River's Edge
Oct 1, 2003
Shopping at The River's Edge, Retail Traffic (formerly Shopping Center World), October 1, 2003.

Famed urban design firm seeks opportunities here
Sep 22, 2003
The Jerde Partnership known for 'visionary' projects by Tim Schooley

Downtown Railyard Sale Almost Final
Sep 15, 2003
by Mike McCarthy

Fall Architecture Preview
Sep 7, 2003
by Herbert Muschamp

Opportunity Abundant in the Golden State
Sep 1, 2003
Residential development continues to explode across California, spawning a new wave of ground-up and redevelopment retail deals — many of which offer mixed uses. Cover story by Katie Foxworth

Store's opening proves you can't judge Easterhouse by its cover
Aug 23, 2003
Glasgow Fort is currently being developed alongside junction 10 of the M8 motorway, offering shoppers easy access to stores such as Boots, Next and Argos who have already signed up to the £100 million development. by James Doherty

TomorrowLand
Aug 11, 2003
Tycoon Minoru Mori wants to make Tokyo a more livable city Called Roppongi Hills, the complex constitutes Japan's most ambitious urban- renewal scheme since the postwar era. Seventeen years in the making, it is also Mori's boldest declaration yet in his one-man campaign to save Tokyo from itself. by Jim Frederick

Bay Area Revival
May 1, 2003
New center brings retail, shoppers to old industrial site near Oakland Bay Street, the latest project in a regionwide crusade to develop better retail in the San Francisco Bay area, opened to great fanfare in November, despite a serious market recession. by Debra Hazel and Rick Delvecchio

Breaking the Mold
May 1, 2003
La Cittadella brings a vertical open-air center to Kawasaki, Japan The open-air center has taken a step forward — and several steps up. What may be the first vertical open-air center has opened at La Cittadella, an entertainment and retail complex in Kawasaki, Japan. by Nancy Cohen

New Look at Old Rail Yard: Urban Development on Track
Apr 13, 2003
One hundred and forty years after businessmen drove the first spike of the transcontinental railroad here, California developers plan one of the nation's biggest, most innovative downtown expansions on the 240-acre cradle of American railroading's most storied accomplishment. by Jim Wasserman (Associated Press)

From Tigers to Towers
Apr 4, 2003
A gleaming new city is springing up at Shiodome, one of many transforming the Tokyo landscape. by Chris Betros

Retail Center Charges into East Bay with Movies, Stores
Mar 28, 2003
Whatever you do, don't call Bay Street Emeryville a mall. The City of Emeryville and the developers at Madison Marquette strove to create a retail space that could function as a communal as well as commercial center. But building a retail portfolio that would appeal to the diverse community of the East Bay required a great deal of thought and effort. by Emily Cadei

Brave New World
Mar 13, 2003

Shopping Japanese Style
Mar 11, 2003
Unlike the boxy shopping centers that blight U.S. suburban and rural landscapes with their featureless design and sprawling parking lots, some recent Japanese developments set examples for combining dynamic design with urban sensibilities. The American firm The Jerde Partnership has recently completed several such projects in Japan.

Cybercentre
Mar 1, 2003

Jobs joy as city's 140m shops plan goes ahead
Feb 17, 2003
Developers have been given permission to build a £140million High Street-style shopping park in the east end of Glasgow.

One View of the Future at Railyard
Feb 14, 2003
For some time, Sacramento city leaders have puzzled over a key problem when contemplating how to redevelop the massive 240-acre railyard downtown: How can they connect the railyard -- with its stores, restaurants, offices, apartments and possible basketball arena -- to the existing downtown when a series of train tracks slice between the two of them, cutting them off from each other? by Tony Bizjak View online with free registration.

Retail to the Rescue
Feb 1, 2003
Stores, restaurants attract shoppers (and tax dollars) back to Long Beach Until recently, downtown Long Beach wasn’t a place you went shopping — unless you wanted to buy a tattoo, that is. But it’s a different place today. by Donna Mitchell

Sacramento's Rail Yards to be Huge Renewal Site
Feb 1, 2003
Millennia Associates, the development arm of the Jerde Partnership, a Venice Beach, Calif., architectural firm, is buying the former Union Pacific Railroad yard in downtown Sacramento to build a mixed-use development. The 240-acre parcel is one of the largest undeveloped urban tracts in the country. The deal was expected to be completed in February with groundbreaking scheduled for 2005. by David Sokol

Powerful Designs on Penn's Landing
Jan 27, 2003
The developers pitching plans for the site have ties to top political contributors and other heavyweights. by Henry Holcomb

Married to the Mall
Jan 22, 2003

Developers Bid for All of Downtown Railyard
Jan 17, 2003
The developers talking with the Omaha-based railroad are The Jerde Partnership International Inc. of Venice and its development arm, Millennia Associates LLP. Jerde is an international architectural and urban design firm run by Jon Jerde.

UP Railyard Plant Development Plan Expected
Jan 17, 2003
Gunning for a role as master developer of Sacramento’s downtown Union Pacific railyard, Southern California-based Millennia Associates expects to submit a preliminary development plan for the entire railyard by the end of March. by Bob Walter

Developers Bid for All of Downtown Railyard
Jan 16, 2003
The developers who have been negotiating with Union Pacific Railroad Co. to buy less than 40 acres of the 240-acre downtown Sacramento railyard now want to buy virtually all of the property, the Sacramento Business Journal will report in Friday's newspaper.

Allgemein-Platze (German only)
Jan 1, 2003
Jon Jerde ist der weltweit erfolgreichste Architekt für Einkaufs- und Erlebniszentren. Seine Visionen begannen beim Menschen – und endeten beim Shoppen. By Harald Willenbrock