Foot Traffic Ahead: New report ranks metro areas on walkable urban places

By Smart Growth America · June 2, 2014

A new survey of development trends will reveal which regions are building the most walkable neighborhoods.
Photo via DC: The WalkUP Wake-Up Call, 2013.

Our major metropolitan regions are racing to capture the market demand for walkable urban places. Do you want to know who is winning?

Join us for the release of Foot Traffic Ahead: Ranking Walkable Urbanism in America’s Largest Metros on June 17, 2014 at 2:00 PM EDT, live streamed from Washington, DC during the 2014 LOCUS Leadership Summit.

This report, conducted by LOCUS: Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors, a coalition of Smart Growth America, in conjunction with The George Washington University’s Center for Real Estate & Urban Analysis, identifies each metro’s walkable urban places, or WalkUPs, and ranks the top 30 U.S. metropolitan areas based on their current and future commercial real estate metrics. In addition to the report release, LOCUS President Chris Leinberger will host a panel discussion with national leaders from the public and private sectors including Emerick Corsi, President of Forest City Real Estate Service and Jacque Robinson, Vice-Mayor of Pasadena, California.

More Americans are choosing to live in WalkUPs, where they have access to shopping, jobs, schools and transportation. These places serve as the economic engines of our regions, host cultural and entertainment centers, and attract more development and investment every year.

Join us on June 17th and share the event on Facebook and Twitter to learn more about which regions are building more walkable urban places, and what that means for your region today and in the future.