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    Sulphur Dell

    Revitalizing a Blighted Void Near Downtown
    Just north of downtown Nashville, a 90- acre void of parking and low-rise industrial buildings separates the city’s central business district from the revitalizing Germantown neighborhood. The area is both a barrier to economic development and an opportunity. The Nashville Sounds baseball stadium...Read more
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    Sullivan Station

    Affordable Living on the Lake
    Sullivan Station, spearheaded by VOA Associates Incorporated, repairs a Chicago neighborhood torn by mid-20th Century urban renewal. The five-acre site was part of a low-rise South Side neighborhood torn apart to build high-rise public housing that was, in turn, demolished in the 1990s due to...Read more
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    TLC: An Approach to Activate Downtown Rockford

    A different approach sparks a downtown revival
    After decades of abandonment, downtown Rockford is finally coming back. Rockford, a mid-sized city in north-central Illinois about 90 miles northwest of Chicago, is not unlike many other Midwest cities its size. Its post-war, car-oriented sprawl had riddled its downtown with vacant storefronts,...Read more
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    Code SMTX: Tactical Urbanism Intervention and Project Kickoff

    Improving Downtown — for Pennies on the Dollar
    Code SMTX in San Marcos, Texas may carry the distinction of all-time least expensive winner. The return on investment for the city and for community members has been significant. For one day in June 2014, the City of San Marcos and Dover, Kohl & Partners worked to re-envision downtown using so-...Read more