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Making Over Main Street

By ngrossman@pps.org on Feb 22, 2005 | Add Comment

An article in The New Republic compares PPS’s approach to creating successful streets to the quick-fix, face-lift approach of the reality TV series “Town Haul.”

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Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY

By ngrossman@pps.org on Feb 10, 2005 | Add Comment

This success story, in which PPS participated, demonstrates the powerful benefits of a Placemaking approach to transportation.

From the January 2005 ITE Journal:

“The Clinton Square Improvement Project had been a dream of the City of Syracuse, NY, USA, for more than 40 years. The reconstruction of Clinton Square showed that CMAQ funding could be [...]

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PPS recommends one-way streets for Tucson

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 10, 2005 | Add Comment

PPS is studying the Congress Street Corridor in downtown Tucson, AZ. In presentations this week, Phil Myrick unveiled recommendations that included keeping two downtown streets one-way, but reducing them to two lanes, and adding more space for pedestrians and curbside parking.

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Excitement Builds Around Detroit’s Campus Martius

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 20, 2004 | Add Comment

PPS’s work on the new Campus Martius in Downtown Detroit is recognized as an architectural highlight of 2004.

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Plan Would Make Seattle’s Freeway Park More People Friendly

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 15, 2004 | Add Comment

PPS visited Seattle to help the community develop a vision for how to revitalize the park.
Fred Kent’s interview with the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

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