Economics of Parks: Adjacent Property

In a series of posts, we will begin featuring excerpts from the recently released publication from TPL on measuring the economic value of city parks. In this first post, we look at the increased property values attributed to parks in Washington, D.C.: The most famous park in Washington, D.C. may be the National Mall with [...]

Park or Development: What’s More Economically Valuable

On a given city block, what is the revenue potential of a creating a new park as compared to that of new residential or commercial building(s)? Say your city has a downtown parking lot. The average value of the adjacent developed properties is $2 million per property. The city is short on downtown park space [...]

Build Parks, See Investment

There’s more evidence of parks positive affect on property values from New York City. A new report issued today by the Friends of Hudson River Park found that the $75 million the public invested in a section of the park in Greenwich Village sprouted into an additional $200 million in property values in a two-block [...]