Early County 2055 | Georgia
Charles B. Rice grew up in Early County, Georgia, and moved away to make his fortune. Upon returning, he was struck by the downtrodden state of the county, and undertook a 50-year visioning effort to turn things around. Recognizing the expansive scope of his challenge, he engaged PlaceMakers to facilitate an economic development visioning process…
Read MoreCalgary, Alberta | East Village
The East Village plan includes a form-based urban code and provides for a new mixed-use, high density urban neighbourhood of 8,500-9,500 residents and over 100,000 square feet of ground level commercial retail in Calgary’s downtown core. Under sub-contract to Jenkins & Associates, PlaceMakers (operating as T-Six Urbanists at the time) prepared a comprehensive downtown area…
Read MoreCalgary, Alberta | Envisioning International Blvd.
The International Avenue Design Initiative (IADI) was formed by a partnership between the International Avenue BRZ, the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design, and the City of Calgary with a mission to create a vision and strategy for the redevelopment of the International Avenue corridor (17th Avenue SE).
Read MoreCalgary, Alberta | 50th Street Urban Centre
The International Avenue Design Initiative (IADI) was formed by a partnership between the International Avenue BRZ, the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design, and the City of Calgary with a mission to create a vision and strategy for the redevelopment of the International Avenue corridor (17th Avenue SE).
Read MoreThe Waters | Pike Road, Alabama
Planned as a billion dollar, 2,400 unit endeavor, The Waters is a traditional neighborhood development (TND) just outside Montgomery, Alabama, and the second PlaceMakers client from that state to benefit from a full palette of PlaceMakers service offerings: Planning and Urban Design; Coding; Implementation Advisory; and Sales and Marketing.
Read MoreThe Town of Whitehall, Delaware
Whitehall is a traditional neighborhood development on 1,555 acres of undulating landscape overlooking the C&D Canal, with fingers of wetlands providing a unique environment set in traditionally agricultural land. The villages and towns of Whitehall are enabled by right under the New Castle County Hamlet and Village Design, an earlier PlaceMakers project.
Read MoreEagle Ranch | Windermere, British Columbia
A place of great diversity, the Eagle Ranch Master Plan offers a range of opportunities from the active Village, to the quiet retreat of the Sanctuary, to the relaxed atmosphere of the Settlement’s golf neighborhood — all within arms reach of recreational and leisure activities.
Read MoreSilvertip Village | Canmore, Alberta
Located on the doorstep of Banff National Park, the Town of Canmore is fast becoming a major world class resort destination. With this in mind, the vision for Silvertip Village is based on creating a world class resort village inspired by the wisdom and charm of mountain villages and hill towns of the European Alps.
Read MoreHeritage Station | Calgary, Alberta
The City of Calgary retained PlaceMakers (operating, at the time, as T-Six Urbanists) to facilitate a multi-day onsite public design charrette and prepare a Station Area Master Plan for the Heritage LRT station. With the emergence of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) practices over the past decade, the City of Calgary adopted TOD guidelines in 2004…
Read MoreLeander, Texas
When Leander, Texas, became the Austin region’s fastest growing municipality, they did what any city would do: They looked to similar and surrounding places for guidance. Unfortunately, what they found was disheartening. Sprawl, it seemed, was the adverse consequence of rapid growth. And they didn’t want it. So they came to us. And, for the…
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