Dayton's only true New Urbanist subdivision, Villages of North Clayton, is being taken to bankruptcy court"
$6 Million Owed, Bank Wants to Foreclose
This sounds a lot like Newfields. The parallels are so close: Innovative (for its time) multi-use developement proposed for the north/northwest suburbs but goes belly-up due to a bad economy and maybe a bad location (slow-growth side of town).
I guess the question would be if this would have been in Greene or Warren County would it have faired better? There is Stonehill Village out beyond Beavercreek, that is trying to do some more innovative site planning, but as of now it's not really as New Urbanist as the Villages of North Clayton.
I guess add this the list of innovative Dayton-area projects that went nowhere.
(tip of the hat to commentor "Joe" who provided the DDN article info)
Thursday, June 18, 2009
The Villages of North Clayton- bankrupt!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
Thanks!
I'm not a big fan of new suburbandevelopment, but this one seemed to get it right. Especially by bringing back older houseforms. I read some interesting comments on the DDN about the development partners.
Yeah, the DDN comments seemed to be more about a former mayor of Clayton than the developers themselves.
It seems everyone has 20/20 hindsight!
Post a Comment