Each entails taking underutilized, overlooked or inappropriately zoned properties and conceptualizing new projects better suited for the property and the community. They are denser, vitally needed and more attractive. This is the process of going from horizontal to vertical. It is the shape of things to come. Another project involves the rezoning of 20 acres of industrial property to residential.
Neighborhoods can include a variety of uses.
And properties can change function. It is a concept borrowed from the same-titled book by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer. The book deals with the speed of change in our society. In real estate parlance, we must embrace the idea that our built environments must be multifunctional and able to accommodate the dynamic changes of their occupants. An important example in San Diego is the conversion of industrial buildings and properties to commercial.