• Downtown Woodstock, Georgia

    Enhancing a town’s main street character
    Until 2000, Woodstock, Georgia, was a small town with a population of about 10,000—but encroaching Atlanta sprawl threatened to engulf the community in cookie-cutter projects. The town needed a way to preserve and enhance its main street character in the face of growth. The 32-acre Woodstock...Read more

  • Belmar

    A dead mall becomes a downtown for a sprawling suburb
    Although Lakewood, Colorado, is the fifth largest city in the state, until the last decade the city had no true downtown. Instead, the Denver suburb boasted one of the country’s largest indoor shopping malls, built in the 1960s—but by 2000, that mall was mostly vacant. The development is anchored...Read more

  • Hunters View

    Yesterday a danger zone—today, pure San Francisco
    By any measure, San Francisco ranks among the world’s most beautiful cities. Yet for years, in a sector that tourists never see, 50 barracks-style buildings constructed in 1943 housed 264 families in poverty and fear. Now, a new project is helping the community at Hunters View write a brighter...Read more

  • Iberville Offsites

    Turning blight into beauty
    Iberville Offsites provides affordable housing for moderate-income families, establishes new standards for green historic preservation, and strengthens a city still climbing back from one of the nation’s worst natural disasters. The development restored vernacular houses in stunning fashion across...Read more