
2019 CLIDE Award: Collins/Arapaho Transit-Oriented Development and Innovation District Study
The award recognizes private and public development programs and projects that exemplify the principles of development excellence in North Texas.
WGI worked with the City of Norfolk, Virginia and WPA architects to provide rapid response to COVID-19. Utilizing CARES Act funding, the City established a program for restaurants to move dining outside to allow for patrons to dine safely and at a safe distance. Over 300 businesses received assistance and now the program is expanding to assist with recreational opportunities for youth.
OpenNorfolk is a boots-on-the-ground community assistance program that is helping local businesses open safely under the governor’s Phase 1-3 guidelines. In phase 3, OpenNorfolk will continue to assist local businesses while focusing on neighborhoods and communities, aiming to fill needs for outdoor programming, safe places for families and kids, and community activation. The program will provide temporary, flexible neighborhood spots that ensure that the communities in which they are built can deliver their vision for a safe, healthy, educational summer pop-up park.
WGI’s Director of Placemaking Andrew Howard helped design parklets to let businesses extend their sidewalk area quickly, for safe seating. In an interview with 13 News Now, Howard stated, “This is kind of an emergency response to get businesses back going. Instead of going through the long engineering process, let’s get out there and try some stuff, see what works for Norfolk.”
To learn more about OpenNorfolk and how to volunteer, visit their website. Also, check out this video about the success of the OpenNorfolk program below!
Andrew is a nationally recognized placemaking and public space activation expert. He is the co-founder of the internationally recognized Team Better Block (TBB) which helps communities develop and organize their economic assets to build productive, resilient relationships across the public, private, and civil sectors. Now being used in over two hundred cities and six nations, the Better Block demonstrates how temporary sustainability improvements to a single city block can build momentum for long-term financial, social, and environmental advancements. Andrew and TBB joined WGI early June 2020.
The award recognizes private and public development programs and projects that exemplify the principles of development excellence in North Texas.
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