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Our master plan creates a high-rise commercial and residential center, giving downtown Irvington a focus for revitalization. Our plan incorporates in-depth analysis of transportation infrastructure, traffic circulation, existing residential commercial in adjacent neighborhoods and zoning regulations. We identified a site adjacent to an important shopping street, convenient to major interstate and local highways. Our planning proposal will support expansion of an existing on-site bus station with express bus service to Newark into a major transit hub serving the surrounding metropolitan area.

With hotel rooms, retail space, and a mix of office and residential units, with parking and public open spaces, the ¾- million sq. ft. project is set to stimulate neighborhood renewal. Our master plan positions Irvington Center to act as a regional catalyst for urban redevelopment.

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Working closely with the Port Authority of NY & NJ and Bayshore Economic Development Corporation, we investigated options for commercial and retail, tourism, and educational facilities for redevelopment of this shore community. We developed a master plan, which analyzed the benefits of fishing, aquaculture and related marine development.

Our master plan included site and zoning analysis, consideration of aqua-culture and commercial fishing issues. In addition to summarizing the economic benefits of revitalizing the fishing industry, we developed a space program presenting required square footages and building types, conceptual drawings with a site plan, floor plans, and a CAD model. We included schematic construction cost estimate for the whole development.

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Our master plan proposes to redevelop a former hospital site into a medical complex to better serve Irvington’s community healthcare needs. When Irvington General Hospital closed in 2006, it reduced health care options for this community. Our solution will include urgent and acute care facilities, medical consultation and laboratory services. Our master planning analysis determined that the Medical Center site is well situated for mass transit and highway access, with links to local transportation corridors, destination points in Northern NJ, and interstate highways.

Our phased plan provides for renovations and upgrades for the three vacant hospital buildings on the site, to meet current codes. A final phase will include new, eight-story, residential towers for a “continuum of care” facility to serve senior residents, with housing options ranging from independent- to assisted-living. Our master plan incorporates sustainable site design principles to reduce environmental impact and increase energy efficiency.

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We are providing comprehensive planning services for proposed large-scale redevelopment along Carrollton Avenue in neighborhoods near Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA). The project goals are to revitalize these historically depressed neighborhoods, devastated by flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Our master plan incorporates sustainable site design strategies to develop sites and buildings to reduce environmental impact and save energy. Based on our investigations, we have phased the neighborhood redevelopment plan as follows:

• Phase I: Revitalization of commercial district along the Carrollton Avenue, developing street level retail, new hotel, new sports complex, and bridges across the Carrollton Avenue;
• Phase II: Development of moderate-rate housing including dormitories and rental apartments;
• Phase III: Development of community facilities and services for area residents and the university community including outdoor green spaces that link Xavier University campus with housing, recreational and retail;
• Phase IV: Campus improvements to XULA, coordinating with the university’s master plan

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As Master Planner and Architect of Record, our redevelopment plan focuses on downtown areas adjacent to the train station. The plan makes Aberdeen’s retail district a destination in itself, which along with new housing development in adjoining Matawan, will support the locale’s transportation hub. Our plan accommodates an anticipated increase in commuter and retail traffic from this new development.

The mixed-use development contains nearly one million sq. ft. in multiple buildings for offices, retail, hotel, and residential space. Representing cutting-edge development programming, our solution for Aberdeen’s downtown is intended to serve as a model for other communities, where intermodal transportation can spur positive local economic development.

We are providing planning services for a proposed mixed-use arts complex, focusing youth arts education. Located in Summit, NJ, this pilot project is the first in a series of nationwide arts centers intended to provide broader access to the arts and to support youth arts education. Young Arts Enclaves, (YEA) is a non-profit organization which will develop and administer these centers.

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ibilities include investigating and identifying locations for land acquisition, coordinating with local and municipal agencies, analyzing zoning regulations and working closely with arts organizations to develop programming and space requirements for the pilot project. Using criteria we developed for site selection to analyze satellite locations around the country, we have identified potential arts partners and host communities in Tennessee, Illinois, Kansas and Louisiana; we are analyzing additional locations in Nebraska and Hawaii.

In addition to classroom, exhibition and performance spaces for visual arts, music and other performing arts, our master plan will include moderate-rate housing for administrators and staff, parking, outdoor public spaces and street-level retail. Income from the housing and arts-related retail component will underwrite some of YAE’s expenses. The housing is intended for staff and artists connected with the YAE complex.

We developed planning template to guide layout and development of temporary communities to meet emergency housing needs around the globe. One- to four-bedroom units and can be combined as apartments, or configured as separate units.

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Our design uses a single housing unit as a building block, to foster a neighborhood sense of scale and identity for temporary prefabricated, modular communities. The template clusters these units around community facilities and recreation areas to promote residents’ interaction and to enhance security.
On the smallest scale, 10 housing units surround a common courtyard. At the next level, 10 clusters, accommodating 100 families, define a central open space where recreational areas, community services and parking lots are located. Ten of these 100-family compounds, for 1,000 families, can be grouped around central services such as shopping, medical facilities and schools to develop a community of 1,000 families. The template includes plans for traffic circulation and parking.

Our prefabricated, modular panel system complies with international building codes, manufacturers’ standards, NFPA life safety codes, and the UFC 3-600-01.  Each bedroom and living room unit can be delivered as a flat-pack, with windows, doors, and wiring pre-installed. The kitchen/bathroom units can be delivered with furnishings and fixtures. Flat bed trucks can deliver unit components to any location around the globe. Assembly of flat-pack units or kitchen/bath units takes 30 minutes with a 2-ton forklift and two crew members.