In order to reach and retain quality employees, more employers are considering areas accessible to transit and housing. People want to live, work and play in a walkable community -- so their employers are locating there. Investigate the key interests of both employers and employees. Then explore the land use and transit issues necessary for achieving successful employment-based TOD: last-mile connectivity, transit choices and placemaking. Learn from ETOD projects in Boston, Denver and Dallas. Moderator: Sujata Srivastava, Principal, Strategic Economics, Berkeley, California Walt Mountford, Executive Vice President, KDC , Dallas, Texas Tom Clark, Chief Executive Officer, Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, Denver, Colorado Alden Raine, PhD, National TOD Practice Director, AECOM, Boston, Massachusetts

1. Employment TOD
in the Metro Core
Rail~Volution 2015
Alden S. Raine, PhD
AECOM
Dallas
October 27, 2015

2. Why are We Talking About ETOD?
• The job commute is getting worse, with social equity implications:
 The Growing Distance Between People and Jobs in Metropolitan
America, Brookings Institution, March 2015
• The policy of preserving “employment land”—common to many older
cities—competes with traditional TOD for land and for transit.
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• The TOD community is outgrowing the
cookie-cutter: TOD is more than mixed-
use development with [high-end]
residential and retail.

3. ETOD in the Core: Three Models
1. Major job centers as anchors of mixed-use
transit villages
2. The urban jobs campus and the last mile—
a core issue as well as a peripheral issue
3. Employment lands in the regional core—
coexisting or competing with mixed-use
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4. 1. Jobs as a TOD Anchor
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5. Partners’ HealthCare
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Iconic TOD, Iconic Employer
Assembly Row
• P3 infill station opens up 65-acre TOD two
miles from downtown, led by Federal Realty
Investment Trust
• Full program: 2,100 housing units; 1 million sf
retail; hotel; 1.75 million sf office, R&D.
• Big Phase 1: 453 units; cinema; outlets.
Partners Health Care
• Region’s #1 employer: 64,000 in region
• Need: consolidate scattered administrative staff
• Two choices—Orange Line stations in the core
• Chose Assembly Row: two buildings, 700,000
sf under construction for 4,500 workers
• Front door literally at east headhouse

6. Boston School Headquarters
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Anchoring a Core CBD
• Dudley Station: the historic CBD of Roxbury. Pre-
World War II, the #2 commercial center in
Greater Boston
• The heart of the Square: Ferdinand’s, an iconic
five-floor furniture store vacant since 1979
• The Southwest Corridor project—a community
victory—relocated Orange Line in 1987
• Still a transit hub: terminus of the BRT Silver
Line; also served by a dozen regular bus routes
• A three-decade revitalization priority for the
City—some success, but lacking an anchor
• The answer: Boston School HQ—a $120 million
public adaptive reuse of Ferdinand’s
• 500 employees—mostly City residents;160,000 sf
office space with ground-floor retail

7. Compare: Lindbergh Center
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BellSouth (AT&T) Towers Anchoring MARTA’s
Phase I Lindbergh City Center TOD

8. Compare: Transbay District
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6.4 million sf of new office space on
parcels closest to Transit Center

9. 2. The Last Mile
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10. Longwood Medical Area
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An Employment Engine
• 213 acres, 18.9 million sf of building space
• Three Harvard teaching hospitals; three
major medical research institutions
• Harvard’s Medical, Dental, and Public Health
Schools; Mass. College of Pharmacy
• Six colleges, two high schools, other cultural
and civic institutions
• Employees: 46,000 (20 years ago: 25,000)
• Of those 46,000 employees:
– 1/3 (15,000+) live in the City of Boston
– half of those (7500+) live in five inner-
city neighborhoods

11. Longwood Medical Area
The MASCO Shuttle
• Non-profit serves hospitals
and med schools.
• Ten fixed shuttle routes
connect to Green, Orange,
Red Lines; Commuter Rail,
Harvard/MIT, Garages
• Costs built into MASCO
member dues, parking rates
• 12,500 daily trips; 4.5 million
annual trips
• In addition: Partners’ Health
Care has its own shuttle.
• All institutions deeply
subsidize MBTA passes.
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12. Compare: University Circle
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Two institutional shuttle systems connect
hospitals to Red Line, HealthLine
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13. Compare: University City
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“Superloop” BRT connects medical and employment centers;
will act as circulator for Mid-Coast LRT stations
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14. 3. Employment Lands
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15. The Other South Boston Waterfront
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Logan
Airport
Convention
Center
Industrial
Container
Terminal
Cruise Port
Marine
Industrial
Park
D Street
Ted
Williams
Tunnel
South
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Use TOD
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East of D Street
• Half of the 1,000-acre
waterfront legally reserved for
maritime and industrial use
• Massport’s container, cruise,
and seafood terminals
• City’s Boston Marine Industrial
Park
• Silver Line and two regular bus
routes serve the park
• Key TOD-vs-ETOD issues:
• Land regulation
• Transportation for
workers and trucks
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16. The Other South Boston Waterfront
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Land Regulation
• BRA updating Marine Industrial Park Master
Plan: maritime industrial versus general
industrial versus commercial.
• Is a cruise port hotel OK? How much office
and R&D? New home for wholesale food
businesses?
Transportation
• Adjacent mixed-use waterfront has
exploded—20 million sf of new growth.
• Silver Line and street network rushing
toward capacity.
• High-end residential coexists with trucks—a
core state-Massport-City principle.

17. Compare: East Cleveland
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Legacy industrial corridor in Collingwood and East Cleveland---
transit extension alternatives address ETOD

18. Compare: Riverview Corridor
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St. Paul’s legacy corridor—viable industrial lands side-by-side with
residential and commercial; TOD includes ETOD

19. Thank you.
Alden S. Raine, PhD
alden.raine@aecom.com
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