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Shovel Ready in Florida
Whereas many states had difficulty with the requirement by the federal transportation stimulus program in 2009 that projects be “shovel ready,” the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) was able...
View ArticleA 1987 ULI Panel Helped Lay the Foundation for the Colorado Convention Center
The Colorado Convention Center on 14th Street in downtown Denver is one of the country’s busiest meeting venues, hosting more than 400 events annually—more than one a day. The facility’s 2.2 million...
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Envisioning a City Center—With Nonstop Service to Tokyo
Capped by its landmark white peaks architectural form, Denver International Airport (DIA) is striking amid an iconic western setting of tall-grass prairie with the Rocky Mountains soaring in the...
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Finalists Announced for ULI Urban Open Space Award
Five projects have been selected as finalists for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Urban Open Space Award, a competition that recognizes outstanding examples of transformative and vibrant public open...
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University City District Revitalizing Inner West Philadelphia
Major changes resulted both directly and indirectly from the University of Pennsylvania’s 2004 purchase of a U.S. Postal Service property adjacent to Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, according to...
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New Suburbanism: Reinventing Inner-Ring Suburbs
Served by two commuter train lines and adjacent to Northwestern University, Church Street Plaza in Evanston, Illinois, created a retail and entertainment pavilion, a hotel, offices, and a residential...
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Flexibility, Choice Are Keys to Place Making for Pelli
One of the most visible symbols of the revitalized West Philadelphia district known as University City is the Cira Centre. The 29-story office tower on the west bank of the Schuylkill River was...
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Next Step for Chicago’s Bloomingdale Trail: A Broader Identity
What for a decade had been referred to either as the “Bloomingdale Trail” or simply “the Bloomingdale” will be referred to going forward as “the 606,” it was announced in June by the Trust for Public...
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Two Parks Win ULI Urban Open Space Award
The Parks and Waterfront at Southeast False Creek in Vancouver, B.C. Two parks have been selected as winning projects in the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Urban Open Space Award competition. The Parks and...
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Supporting Culture-Based Place Making with NEA Grants
Cities need look no further than “the Bean,”Anish Kapoor’s iconic Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park, to realize how investment in the arts can pay off in terms of urban place making, as...
View ArticleULI Urban Open Space Award Finalists: Washington Park
Washington Park Cincinnati, Ohio Project Owner: Cincinnati Park Board Designer: Human Nature Inc. Washington Park lies at the heart of Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, which was built by...
View ArticleULI Urban Open Space Award Finalists: Railyard Park + Plaza
Railyard Park + Plaza Santa Fe, New Mexico Project Owner: City of Santa Fe Designer: Ken Smith, Frederic Schwartz, Missy May Built in 1880, Santa Fe’s railyard was a key component of the city’s...
View ArticleULI Urban Open Space Award Finalists: Columbus Commons and Scioto Mile
Columbus Commons and Scioto Mile Columbus, Ohio Project owner: City of Columbus and Capitol South Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation Designer: MKSK (formerly MSI), EDGE, and Moody Nolan In...
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ULI Urban Open Space Award Finalists
The water feature at Cincinnati’s Washington Park dances to lights and music at night. (J. MILES WOLF) Five finalists have been announced for this year’s ULI Urban Open Space Award, an annual...
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Dallas’s Klyde Warren Park Selected for ULI Urban Open Space Award
(Mei-Chun Jau) Klyde Warren Park, a 5.2-acre (2.1 ha) deck park built over the recessed Woodall Rodgers Freeway in Dallas, has received national recognition as the winner of the 2014 Urban Land...
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Green from Green: Creating Value from Private Management of the Public Realm
From left: Peter Harnik, director of the Trust for Public Land’s Center for City Park Excellence; Daniel A. Biederman, president, 34th Street Partnership/Bryant Park Corporation; moderator Ommeed...
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ULI Case Study: Riverfront Park of Denver, Colorado
Four pedestrian bridges connect the Riverfront Park development to the rest of downtown. (Armando Martinez) In many cities, urban land “on the other side of the tracks” is often undervalued or...
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The Bayou City: Reclaiming Houston’s Signature Waterways
For decades, Buffalo Bayou Park—adjacent to downtown but hidden by bridges and freeway overpasses—was neglected and overgrown. Now that it is being reclaimed, even canoeists are returning to the...
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Modernizing San Francisco’s Century-Old City Hall
To save energy, the schedule for lighting the City Hall dome at night was cut by two hours. This dome is the fifth largest dome in the world and is 42 feet (13 m) higher than the dome on the U.S....
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Making Park Conservancies Work
(Rula Sibai/Unsplash.com) Declaring that the major parks in America’s largest cities are enjoying “a golden age,” the Trust for Public Land says that conservancies—the private bodies that work in close...
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