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Boulder Recruits PPS to Ready its Central Park for Public Demand

By Brian Geraghty on Dec 12, 2008 | Add Comment

Residents of Boulder, CO are not homebodies, and getting them to use the outdoor resources they have isn’t an issue. In fact, the city’s Central Park is in need of a bit of an upgrade due to the immense use it already gets!  (If only every park had this problem…)

The Boulder Parks Department will [...]

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Chappaqua Town Board Invites Public to Respond to Plans for New Downtown

By Brian Geraghty on Dec 9, 2008 | Add Comment

The lower end of King Street in Chappaqua, NY has needed a makeover for a long time. Located at the center of town and across from the Metro North Railroad station, it’s a natural public gathering place.

PPS proposed a host of suggestions several years ago to revitalize the area and in September the town [...]

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Charlotte Settles on Series of Parks for Downtown Revitalization

By Brian Geraghty on Dec 4, 2008 | Add Comment

The town of Charlotte has developed a ten-year plan for the revitalization of its downtown cultural district that focuses on park development.  Based on earlier work with PPS, the town has been soliciting feedback and input from residents for months.  As a result, Charlotte has settled on incorporating a series of smaller parks as a [...]

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Market Square Readying for Revitalization

By Robin Lester on Dec 3, 2008 | Add Comment

A few years ago, a Houston local improvement coalition (MSMRA, the Main Street/Market Square Redevelopment Authority; and the area TIRZ, the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Number Three) hired PPS to analyze Market Square, one of the city’s downtown parks.  A “dead” space downtown lacking activities, the site was often described as being lifeless and creepy, [...]

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PPS and MPC Bring Placemaking to Chicago!

By Robin Lester on Nov 25, 2008 | Add Comment

In Chicago, PPS recently teamed up with the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) to provide training to both local officials and community leaders focusing on community-led Placemaking initiatives, and to assist them in setting up a Placemaking campaign for the city. The partnership includes the recently-published Guide to Placemaking in Chicago, which [...]

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PPS Works in Charlotte

By Brian Geraghty on Nov 18, 2008 | Add Comment

PPS has just begun a collaboration with the town of Charlotte, NC to develop open space and parks in the town’s Uptown Cultural District. They are not only open to suggestions but actively soliciting feedback from residents.

Recent suggestions include a large park for concerts and festivals, incorporating bike and pedestrian friendly transit, and building [...]

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A Market Move, 28 Years in the Making

By Robin Lester on Sep 30, 2008 | Add Comment

In 1980, PPS worked with the town of Madison, New Jersey on a strategy to improve their Farmer’s Market. As part of the plan, PPS recommended the borough move its market downtown, claiming that it would thrive at the new location if properly managed.

On September 25, 2008, the market moved from its regular home [...]

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Brooklyn’s Myrtle Avenue Primed for Promenade

By Robin Lester on Sep 30, 2008 | Add Comment

Existing conditions on Myrtle Ave service road.

Brooklyn’s Myrtle Avenue, once notoriously crime-ridden, has made amazing strides in the last several years. Today, thanks to the hard work of the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project, the street is now a bustling thoroughfare home to restaurants and shops, many of them owned by local [...]

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PPS Partners with AARP

By Robin Lester on Sep 26, 2008 | Add Comment

Today, PPS’s Gary Toth appears on Streetsblog to talk about engaging the DOT, as well as to discuss A Citizen’s Guide to Better Streets, one of three new PPS books to be published in conjunction with AARP.

The PPS-AARP partnership aligns with both PPS’s Building Community Through Transportation [...]

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Placemaking at Monument Circle

By Robin Lester on Sep 15, 2008 | 1 Comment

PPS is working with the grantees and partners of Inspiring Places Initiative of the Central Indiana Community Foundation to build capacity for Placemaking in the Indianapolis region. One focus of this effort has been on Monument Circle, one of the city’s most iconic public spaces. The Circle, which hosts numerous events throughout the year, has [...]

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Placemaking Catalyzes New Life in Providence Square

By hmanshel@pps.org on Sep 11, 2008 | Add Comment

 

Several months after a PPS Placemaking Workshop, Providence’s Kennedy Plaza is bustling. There are live Rhythm and Soul concerts every Sunday, a Farmeri’s Market Fridays and a Market Bazaar with food, antique, art and other vendors on Thursdays. Throughout the summer there have been a variety of programmed events including [...]

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Cuddy Family Midtown Park Opens in Anchorage

By hmanshel@pps.org on Sep 2, 2008 | Add Comment

Photo Source: Anchorage Parks Foundation

The Master Plan that PPS proposed for Cuddy Family Midtown Park in Anchorage, Alaska in 2004 has been implemented. The Grand Opening ceremony for the park was held on August 23rd, 2008, and included activities such as live music and theater performances, [...]

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