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Article: Building a new "Main Street"; Boca Raton's Mizner Park provides lessons in planning, financing and executing large-scale mixed use projects. (Florida)
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- Building Design & Construction
- Article date:
- March 1, 1992
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It is a scenario that has played out many times across the country. Existing downtowns in small cities and suburbs begin to suffer economic and physical decline when enormous commercial developments - specifically malls - pop up on the outskirts of town, leaving civic leaders to ponder the question, "How do we keep our urban cores lively and economically healthy?"
This is the dilemma that city officials across Florida confronted shortly after the state's major highway - Interstate 95 -was completed during the 1970s. The number of commercial developments along the artery swelled and as a result, not only was commercial development channeled away from the cores of ...
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