• New neighborhood connects city to university

    The Eddy Street Neighborhood is a mixed-use infill development in South Bend featuring a main street and many housing types. Looney Ricks Kiss won a Merit Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category of the 2024 CNU Charter Awards.
    In a public-private partnership, a developer worked with Notre Dame University, a local revitalization group, and the City of South Bend to create a new 48-acre neighborhood. The Eddy Street Neighborhood “was a partnership in the truest sense,” says Tom McGowan of Kite Realty Group. “We may have...Read more

  • From industrial lot to urban wellness village

    Casa de Luz is a community-driven, health-oriented urban village on the site of a former meatpacking plant in Austin, Texas. Shambala Corp. won a Merit Award in the Block, Street, and Building category in the 2024 CNU Charter Awards.
    Casa de Luz is a case study that teaches the value of thinking differently about health, food, parking, and community building. Although the project covers less than an acre, it has an outsized impact on the City of Austin, Texas. “The unlikely story of how a health-oriented restaurant transformed...Read more

  • Using neighborhood DNA to catalyze urban regeneration

    Back to Better is a series of interventions planned for the Near Northwest in South Bend, Indiana. Students at the University of Notre Dame won a Student Merit Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category of the 2024 CNU Charter Awards.
    University of Notre Dame architecture students met with neighbors and stakeholders to propose design guidelines for regenerating the high-vacancy Near Northwest Neighborhood (NNN). Back to Better: An Urban Conservation and Regeneration Plan for South Bend's Near Northwest Neighborhood would fill “...Read more

  • How Cincinnati’s riverfront was transformed

    The Ohio River city leveraged two stadiums and a highway reconstruction to build a new waterfront neighborhood, guided by a 1990s plan.
    Note: CNU 32 will take place in Cincinnati May 15-18, where visitors will see many examples of New Urbanism and urban revitalization throughout the city and across the region. The Banks Neighborhood was built on an underutilized area with stadium parking between Interstate 71 and the Ohio River in...Read more