Leander, 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…
Read MoreLost Rabbit | Madison, Mississippi
Lost Rabbit, a Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. (DPZ) master planned community, is situated on the Ross Barnett Reservoir, approximately 12 miles northeast of downtown Jackson and just outside the town limits of Madison, Mississippi. The final master plan includes three neighborhoods, each of which follows a distinct planning tradition and includes a broad variety of…
Read MoreWind Walk | Foothills, Alberta
Mike Holmes is a Canadian celebrity with growing international acclaim. Famous as Canada’s Most Trusted Contractor, Mike is best known for his renovation rescues on the international hit television series Holmes on Homes. Wind Walk is Mike’s first venture into homebuilding at the community scale and Holmes Communities represents the culmination of his career-long crusade…
Read MoreNational City, California
PlaceMaker Howard Blackson led a downtown Specific Plan, Urban Design standards and project Environmental Impact Report for National City’s Redevelopment authority. The plan and EIR was adopted by the City Council in February 2005 after a two-year process. The project’s baseline operating system utilized the Form-Based Code approach to place the correct building intensity to…
Read MoreNew Castle County, Delaware
New Castle County, Delaware is exceptional in that as a 2,000 square mile planning area, the County has the vision of both protecting natural resources and planning for more intense development that will support transit and sustainable community. They elected to implement a form-based code as a new Hamlets & Villages chapter within their existing…
Read MoreTown of Taos, New Mexico
With three diverse cultural traditions and over 400 years of built history, the Town of Taos, New Mexico, is home to some of the most distinctive architectural and planning patterns in the United States. The historic district remains a 16th century Spanish village to this day. So, when it became apparent that the blunt force…
Read MoreBuckley Ranch | Rocky View, Alberta
PlaceMakers (operating originally as T-Six Urbanists) prepared a concept plan and conceptual scheme on a 85 acre site on behalf of Peters Dewald Land Company Inc. The Buckley Lands provide an opportunity for the M.D. of Rocky View to implement a more sustainable way of accommodating increasing growth pressure.
Read MoreCochrane Lake | Rocky View, Alberta
PlaceMakers (operating originally as T-Six Urbanists) were engaged in early 2008 to develop a Hamlet Plan for Cochrane Lake through an interactive on-site week-long public design charrette. Cochrane Lake is a small rural settlement just north of the City of Cochrane, and within the one-million acre rural Municipal District of Rocky View, Alberta.
Read MoreSage | Bruderheim, Alberta
In the summer of 2008, PlaceMakers (operating originally as T-Six Urbanists) were engaged by Greenview Developments to conduct a week-long on-site public charrette to design a new neighborhood for the Town of Bruderheim’s northwest quadrant. Bruderheim is a small prairie town located approximately 30kms northeast of Edmonton, Alberta. Bruderheim sits amidst a one-hundred-acre+ industrial area known…
Read MoreProject Portfolio
In some PlaceMakers projects, all of our core services — planning and design, coding, community engagement, implementation and advocacy, and sales and marketing — are brought to bear. In others, unique challenges require tailored combinations. Regardless, each reflects our larger commitment to placemaking as a tool for community resilience and opportunity. Piece by piece, our ten-year history of projects…
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