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As a direct outcome of the Greater Corktown Neighborhood Framework Plan, the City of Detroit received a $30 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for “mixed-income housing to hedge against gentrification in Greater Corktown,” according to The Detroit News. The funding comes through HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant program

In NYCxDesign’s 2021 Awards, Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center—a collaboration between architects Marble Fairbanks and SCAPE—was honored in the category ‘Greater Good: Social and Environmental Impact.’ Winners were announced in a virtual ceremony hosted by Interior Design, including outstanding projects from all areas of design. This year’s winners included artist Sarah Sze, Design Republic,

In an event in Gwinnett County this week, Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-Suwanee), “touted her support for greenways and other infrastructure projects she hopes will be funded by Congress as part of the American Jobs Plan (…) part of what Bourdeaux called a plan to ‘future-fit the suburbs’—a way to focus infrastructure needs outside the central

This month, Resilient New Jersey launched a new planning effort to develop an action plan addressing flood risk in the Raritan River and Bay communities of New Jersey—including Woodbridge, Old Bridge, Sayreville, Perth Amboy, South Amboy, South River and Carteret in Middlesex County. This joint effort between the municipalities, the New Jersey Department of Environmental

The re-imagined Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA), designed by Studio Gang and SCAPE, reached a major construction benchmark with the completion of its signature roof last week and announced an opening date of May 2022. The new roofline blossoms out onto nearly 14 acres of new public landscape to the North and South of

On Wednesday, April 14, SCAPE presented alongside Studio Gang and the Memphis River Parks Partnership for a public design update marking the conclusion of the design development phase for Tom Lee Park⁠—a 30-acre waterfront park in Memphis inspired by the dynamic sediment and flow paths of the Mississippi River. At the same time, the Memphis

This week, the Master Plan for Airline Highway Park in Baton Rouge, LA was approved by the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC), setting it on a path to implementation. Learn more about the project here. SCAPE collaborated with team lead TBG Partners on landscape architecture, ecological design and

What happened to the oyster industry in Raritan Bay? What’s the life cycle of an oyster? Why does the Living Breakwaters project have so many different kind of rocks? What is a ‘living breakwater’ to begin with? Our frequent collaborators at the Billion Oyster Project recently released a public curriculum on Living Breakwaters—a series of

In Boston, SCAPE was selected to work with the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) on the Downtown Boston Waterfront Design and Use Guidelines, drawing together community and stakeholder input to provide clear priorities and design guidance for a more welcoming, accessible and resilient public realm and watersheet. In collaboration with BPDA and a team

This week, the Hayward Regional Shoreline Adaptation Master Plan was officially and unanimously adopted by the City Council of Hayward, CA—concluding a two-year analysis, planning and engagement process and setting the project on a path toward implementation. Visit the project website created by SCAPE and read the final master plan here. In collaboration with the