The Lookout Group deeded 6 lots in its Esperanza master-planned community near Boerne to Perry Homes in 2 Kendall deeds recorded Oct. 13, 2026.
Mixed-Use Development
Live, work, and play stacked into one project: how developers combine residential, retail, office, and hospitality, and why cities increasingly require it.
Mixed-use development stacks multiple uses, residential over retail, office beside hospitality, into a single project or master-planned district. Done well, it creates places that draw foot traffic all day and command rent premiums; done poorly, it multiplies the financing, leasing, and entitlement complexity of every use at once.
Cities increasingly push for it. Transit-oriented zoning, ground-floor retail requirements, and public-realm demands make mixed-use the default ask for large sites near transit, and the format is central to downtown revivals and suburban town-center projects alike. For developers, the trade is placemaking and density upside against a harder capital stack, since different uses carry different lenders, returns, and timelines.
This hub tracks major mixed-use projects, the master-planned districts reshaping metro cores, and the zoning and financing moves that make them work. Every figure traces to a primary source.
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The firms our mixed-use development coverage names, most-covered first, with the number of stories naming each one.
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Open South Florida public bids with due dates, led by Delray Beach's West Atlantic Avenue mixed-use development solicitation, due Dec. 2.
The seller's 2022 deed puts its reported gain near $4.3M, or about 64%, in four years. The sale deed is not in city open data yet.
Council District 1 cases at 110 Ogden St and 800 S. Alamo St would move both lots to TOD MX-6. Staff and the Zoning Commission recommend approval.
Staff recommends approval of a 37.327-acre MPCD request on Potranco Rd and a five-unit IDZ-2 case on Burnet St, both on the Oct. 6 Zoning Commission docket.
The Town Council votes Oct. 13 on foreclosing over code fines on a 1935 mixed-use building across from Town Hall. Fines stood at $236,200 as of Oct. 6.
A year-old Fort Worth presentation lists what the city asked Hines to build in return for a utility district.
Case ZC-26-124 asks Fort Worth to rezone 11.45 acres at 1000 N. Henderson Street from PI-N-3 to a PD/MU-2 mixed-use district.
Case ZC-26-114A would swap PD775 and CUP-29 for MU-2 high-intensity mixed-use on 19.87 acres of Decatur Avenue in Fort Worth. Hearing is Oct. 14, 2026.
The seller shows up on the lot's records back to 2003. Crain's reports the building houses Greenlight Bookstore.
Dallas plan commission hears a proposed WMU-5 district at 341 S. Fleming Ave and a PD 931 expansion at 5200 Bryan St, held 35 days, on Oct. 8, 2026.
U.S. Bank Trust, as trustee of the LB Igloo Series IV Trust, holds the note after two assignments from the original hard-money lender.
A private owner registered a $25.5M, 88,000 sq ft office with ground-floor retail at 1630 Rogers Road in Fort Worth on Oct. 5, with a Jan. 1, 2027 start listed.
The ULURP application would replace a one-to-two story shopping center with a mixed-use building and 62,000 sq ft of ground-floor retail.
City Planning's project page now lists 381 units, up from the 245 still shown in the open-data mirror.
Thor Equities paid $62M for Two Town Center in Boca Raton, the office tower CP Group built in 1986 and used as its headquarters, per Palm Beach County records.
A $350M junior and $140M senior debt package steadies the rail line anchoring MiamiCentral, Aventura, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach station districts.
City records show the ground-floor retail condominium has stayed with the same landlord since the building converted, financed through Apple Bank since a 2017 refinancing.
A Miami-Dade judge appointed a Cushman & Wakefield receiver over Brightline's MiamiCentral retail podium amid the $65 million foreclosure suit filed in July.
Petition 2026-0003-CU covers only Pod B's mixed-use buildings. The county record shows the land itself still has not recorded to Related Ross.
The gap between the rezoned plan and the as-of-right plan is 294 apartments and about 100 affordable units, which is the number every sponsor now cites in their own negotiation.
MBA Development Partners wants three towers up to 15 stories and 700,000 sf in Deerfield Beach, the second big mixed-use filing there in two weeks.
Pinnacle and Ram Realty Advisors topped off the 334-unit Aventana in Aventura, an $88.3 million Santander-financed tower steps from Brightline.
North Miami's Planning Commission took up Aurevia, a 16-story, 225-unit tower on NE 123rd Street, at a September 10 special meeting. Est. $77.4M build.
Coral Springs rezoned 58.31 acres of its CRA to a single mixed-use code, resetting entitlements for every parcel along Sample Road and University Drive.
Pebb Capital refinanced its Sundy Village mixed-use project in Delray Beach with a $223M loan, trade reports say, replacing a 2023 construction loan.
No planning board hearing, no commission vote. The Live Local Act lets a 31.5-acre mall redevelopment move on a staff review clock instead.
Starwood Property Trust backed the buy with a $29.1M construction loan as Related Ross moves toward a fall 2026 groundbreaking on former Acme Improvement District farmland.
Berkadia's disclosed figures put senior debt at 68% of cost and total third-party capital near 84%, thin sponsor equity for a transit site.
Four Kendall rezonings claim a Kendall Drive transit-corridor density bonus for a rapid-transit project FDOT put on hold in 2025 with no construction timeline.
Two binding votes this week decide whether a September groundbreaking happens on the private mixed-use district built around the new stadium.
Institutional ground-up capital is moving into South Florida mixed-use outside the Miami core, with a transit-adjacent Flagler Village site as the test case.
The office tower that once housed ODP Corporation's headquarters is giving way to the first residential building on a 29-acre Palm Beach County campus.
Alta Developers sold off the last big retail block at its 2019 Biscayne Boulevard tower to a Hollywood-based shopping center buyer.
The leasing assignment lands roughly three months after groundbreaking, putting a live pipeline in front of retailers and GCs on a 125-acre site.
A Fortune 500 drugmaker picks a master-planned Houston park over a from-scratch site, and the site-selection math shows why.
IMC Equity Group is converting West Little River mall parking into a 280-unit apartment phase filed for administrative review, no public hearing needed.
U.S. Bank filed a foreclosure complaint and lis pendens against the retail component of Brightline's MiamiCentral station in downtown Miami, per Clerk records.
A years-long fight over the sale price of a 6.6-acre county parcel next to West Palm Beach's transit hub is over, unlocking a 1.3 million-square-foot site for roughly 1,000 units.
Minto Communities sold 24 acres in Westlake's Town Center West to Walmart for a 188,779-square-foot Supercenter, months after Lowe's took the pod next door.
A vacant Edgewater assemblage just got a $61 million vertical permit, the first hard construction milestone on the site the county's tax roll still lists as empty land.
Madison Realty Capital and Yellowstone Real Estate took out Post Road's construction debt at partial lease-up, a signal on what lenders will fund today.
The Coconut Grove firm is trading its South Florida multifamily niche for district-scale mixed use, and putting the first bet in the neighborhood it already knows.
Miami-Dade's own parcel record puts the full folio at 165.6 acres, and it already carries 21 county buildings the trade coverage never mentioned.
An 81-key extended-stay box west of the turnpike. The tempting read is data-center labor housing. The record says otherwise.
Stephen Ross said he is focused strictly on Palm Beach County. Two submarkets are about to get their first institutional comp.
A big-box anchor rejected 4-3 by a planning board is now a test of who really controls a master-planned site in Broward.
A county park-and-ride becomes housing. Phase one proves the public-private TOD template can actually deliver units.
Tiered FAR, transferable base density and 0.5 parking spaces per unit reset the math on 130 acres, but three of the four ordinances are only on first reading.
A second full-size grocer inside one master plan is a bet that the rooftops have already arrived.
Coral Gables keeps drawing ultra-luxury vertical, and this one already has its construction loan closed.
A master-planned Palm Beach County community adds a hospital campus as healthcare real estate keeps drawing construction capital.
A rare nine-figure trade in one of LA County's priciest rental markets.
The commercial engine of the Mas family and David Beckham's megaproject clears its building permit as construction moves past the stadium.
A 1,400-acre master plan south of Boston more than doubles the housing the site's prior zoning allowed.
The Toledano-led partnership takes full control of a site Related assembled for $51M in 2022.
A new office start at the former Wade Park site signals continued momentum for suburban Dallas development despite a soft national office market.
Frequently asked
- What counts as a mixed-use development?
- A mixed-use development combines two or more distinct uses, such as apartments, retail, office, or hotel, in one building or an integrated site. The goal is a place that works across different times of day and shares infrastructure and parking. It ranges from a single tower with shops on the ground floor to a master-planned district blending housing, workplaces, and public space.
- Why is mixed-use development harder to finance than a single-use project?
- Each use has its own lenders, return expectations, lease structures, and delivery timeline, so a mixed-use capital stack often layers several financing sources that must be coordinated. Retail and hotel components carry different risk than residential, and phasing the uses adds complexity. The payoff is diversification and placemaking value, but the financing and entitlement work is heavier than a comparable single-use building.