Congratulations to our client, the City of Plymouth and its downtown development authority. The conversion of a historic downtown post office into a boutique grocery store has earned them the 2018 Michigan Downtown Association award for Best Economic Development Project over $1 million.
Read MoreUse the stats and tools in this article to make your case for more sensible (lower) parking requirements in your community.
Read MoreFollowing up on last month’s guest column by Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim tells us what planners can do to anticipate and mitigate changes in the retail sector.
Read MoreCarlisle/Wortman’s guest columnist, Ebenezer Scrooge, brings you the ghost of Christmas future, at least as it applies to the retail sector.
Read MoreWhere there’s a will there’s a way, for Center Line, an inner ring suburb with a vision for its downtown.
Read MoreWhat will stop sprawl? Changing tastes and demographic demand are pulling people, especially the young and old, back into close-in, urban centers says Dick Carlisle.
Read MoreGoogle Street View and Google Maps show us how cities around the world innovate to make streets safe, useful and beautiful for pedestrians.
Read MoreA U.S. Supreme Court decision says that municipalities can’t regulate signs based on their content but location, composition and duration can still apply.
Read MoreWhen it comes to transportation planning, there are some new rules in town.
Read MoreIn this compelling TED talk, Amanda Burden, the New York City planning director who spearheaded the High Line Park, describes the essential role of public spaces with a human scale.
Read MorePlans for a 1945 building in the village of Manchester's historic district will be "compatible with the distinctive character of the district setting and surrounding buildings.”
Read More“The philosophy is that absence of all of those features forces all users of the space … to negotiate passage through the space via eye contact and person to person negotiation.”
Read MoreParis prepares to host an international climate summit with a car-free day that reduced smog and let non-drivers savor its beauty.
Read MoreSince 2009, “22 percent of all new income property development (in Michigan) has located in the 2.7 percent of land that is walkable urban,” the study says.
Read MoreHighlights from Robert Gibbs’ 2012 “Principles of Urban Retail Planning and Development,” with special focus on what traditional downtowns must do to attract national retailers.
Read MoreEnvision your community as a sit-able place as well as a walkable one and see what it does to your policies and plans.
Read MoreCarlisle/Wortman Associates winter, 2014 projects reflect the firm’s wide capacity, including community engagement; master, non-motorized and recreation plans and a town center study.
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