• 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

  • Ponce City Market

    A unique building becomes a hub for historic neighborhoods
    Located in a crossroads of Atlanta, where the celebrated Beltline crosses Ponce de Leon Avenue, a former Sears warehouse has turned into one of the most striking urban redevelopments in the nation. Today, Ponce City Market is a new hub for high-tech industry growth in the city—and the retail center...Read more

  • SMTX Tactical Urbanism

    Improving downtown for pennies on the dollar
    For one day in June 2014, the City of San Marcos worked to re-envision downtown using "Tactical Urbanism." Workers converted two blocks of street from one-way to two-way traffic using temporary paint. An adjacent block was closed to create a farmer's market. Several "pop-up" parks were built in...Read more

  • Alaskan Way Viaduct

    Alaskan Way started as a rail yard to accommodate the City's industrial needs along the waterfront of Elliot Bay in the 1880s. As the need for rail decreased with the rise of personal automobiles, the City built the elevated viaduct over the rails in 1953, named it State Route 99 and launched a...Read more