• Workshop Recap: #EveryPlaceCounts Spokane Design Challenge, Day 2

    "Using green infrastructure to reconnect the East Central Neighborhood! #EveryPlaceCounts #Spokane #DOTconnects"
    This week, USDOT and CNU are bringing the #EveryPlaceCounts Design Challenge to Spokane, WA as part of the Secretary's Ladders of Opportunity initiative. Led by national transportation and urban design experts, dozens of local officials, residents, and business owners gathered to build consensus...Read more

  • Workshop Recap: #EveryPlaceCounts Spokane Design Challenge, Day 1

    "Highways: great for connecting cities...when they go through them it is damaging."
    This week, USDOT and CNU kicked off the Ladders of Opportunity #EveryPlaceCounts Design Challenge in Spokane, WA. Led by national transportation and urban design experts, dozens of local officials, residents, and business owners gathered to build consensus and generate strategies for reconnecting...Read more

  • #EveryPlaceCounts Kicks off in Spokane, WA

    The program helps communities repair the urban fabric in neighborhoods bifurcated by interstate highways.
    Today, the USDOT Ladders of Opportunity #EveryPlaceCounts Design Challenge kicks off its first workshop in Spokane, WA. Created by Secretary Foxx, the #EveryPlaceCounts program helps communities repair and reconnect neighborhoods bifurcated by interstate highways. CNU is assisting by providing...Read more

  • CNU and USDOT Announce Every Place Counts Design Challenge Winners

    This federally-funded initiative will reconnect neighborhoods bisected by urban highways and aging transportation infrastructure.
    In cities across America, aging urban highways impose serious consequences on health, mobility, and opportunity in communities. For decades, residents of neighborhoods bisected by highways have suffered from higher levels of air and water pollution, decreased economic opportunity, limited mobility...Read more