NATIONAL PLANNING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
MIAMI – PlusUrbia Design, a boutique
urban design and land use planning studio, has been honored with a national
award presented by the American Planning Association (APA). PlusUrbia’s Wynwood
Neighborhood Revitalization District (NRD) won the prestigious National
Planning Achievement Award for Economic Development Planning.
“A small,
independent film out of Miami won the Academy Award this year and now a
boutique design studio in Miami has won the Oscars of Urban Planning” quipped
Juan Mullerat, Director of Coconut Grove-based PlusUrbia.
The City of
Miami partnered with PlusUrbia and Akerman law firm to develop a plan to
transform Wynwood into a progressive arts community with walkable streets,
transit corridors and green space. The Wynwood Business Improvement District
hired PlusUrbia to create guidelines, incentives and zoning changes that became
the NRD.
The plan
spurred more residential development, particularly small, affordable apartments
and live-work units that appeal to millennials.
“We’re proud
to have engaged PlusUrbia to help create the Wynwood NRD, and congratulate them
on this honor,” said Wynwood BID Planning & Zoning Chair David Polinsky.
“The results of our collaboration are already shaping Wynwood’s continued
evolution for the better.”
The 2017
National Planning Award recipients will be honored during APA's National Planning Conference in New York on May 8. The recipients of the
profession’s highest honor will also be featured in the May 2017 issue of
Planning magazine.
The Wynwood
Neighborhood Revitalization District is one of 12 APA Achievement Award
recipients this year. The award recognizes the economic development program to
transform the previously blighted Wynwood into a diverse, 24-hour mixed-use
arts and innovation neighborhood. Visit the Wynwood NRD project at:
Each year,
APA recognizes outstanding efforts in planning and planning leadership through
its National Planning Excellence and Achievement Awards. The two-tier awards are
selected through a juried process. Excellence recipients are the highest honor
and Achievement Awards recognize areas of specialization with the planning
profession.
No comments:
Post a Comment