Although many class A projects look similar, each city has individual characteristics, say the developers of Chicago's Aurélien.

The firm is shifting operations in June of 2018 to 70,000 square feet of space on the seventh floor of Building 19 in Industry City, one floor below the Hospital for Special Surgery Training Center where the firm's Brooklyn Nets NBA franchise practices.

The number of consumers with disposable income and the emotional/social element of these projects are a couple of reasons mixed-use developments are heating up in this market, Housing on Merit's Jennifer Litwak tells GlobeSt.com in this RealShare Orange County preview story.