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Dear
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Welcome to the Winter @Collage Newsletter highlighting several of our
diverse projects and some of our clients' recent successes. Be
on the lookout for our redesigned website and brochure coming soon!
Urban Collage, Inc.
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Rosewood Hills, Columbia, SC
On March 1, ground was broken for the mixed-use, mixed-income development
of Rosewood Hills, a 21-acre, $35 million traditional neighborhood
development in Downtown Columbia next to the University of South
Carolina. Urban Collage designed the master plan, which features
a linear greenway, neighborhood pocket parks and a reconfigured street pattern that allows
the 109 single-family homes, townhouses and duplexes to terrace down
the sloped site. A
mixed-use residential / retail building and senior village will provide
an additional 78 housing units in architecture reminiscent of older
neighborhood commercial buildings and the surrounding historic Rosewood
neighborhood.
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Town Center, Kennesaw, GA
In December 2004, the Town Center Area Community Improvement District (TCA-CID)
successfully completed and adopted the 'SuPurb LCI Study' funded through
the Atlanta Regional Commission's Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) Program.
Urban Collage, working with a team of consultants, made comprehensive
recommendations for creating high-density mixed-use activity centers
at Town Center Mall and the planned Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Station
at Busbee Drive. The implementation
of the plan is already underway with Cobb County and GRTA working on
acquiring land for the BRT Station. Concurrently, the TCA-CID is moving
ahead with plans for the Noonday Creek Trail and South Barrett Parkway
Reliever.
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Downtown
Health and Bioscience District,
Atlanta, GA
On February 16, 2005, Urban Collage, Inc. unveiled
a vision for a Downtown Health and Bioscience Campus in Atlanta's
Central Business District. The feasibility study, developed
under the direction of Central Atlanta Progress (CAP), outlines
a potential collaboration between Grady Health System, Georgia Research
Alliance, Georgia State University, Morehouse School of Medicine,
Emory University School of Medicine and Georgia Tech along with
the private sector.
The plan, which addresses a critical area identified
by the City's economic development strategy and aligns with Georgia's
statewide effort to recruit new bioscience industries, illustrates
the potential for up to 3 million square feet within a downtown
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Urban
Collage's 5th Company Retreat,
Young Harris, GA
Urban Collage
recently held its 5th Company Retreat at the Brasstown Valley Resort
in Young Harris, GA. Every year Urban Collage holds a strategic planning
retreat to discuss goals for the upcoming year. Past retreats were
held in Helen, GA, Palmetto, GA, Birmingham, AL and Asheville, NC.
Career Day Heards Ferry Elementary, Atlanta, GA
Urban
Collage hosted its second Career Day at Heards
Ferry Elementary in Fulton County. Urban Collage staff members
led the 5th Grade class through several Town Building exercises.
Children learned about land use and urban design through interactive
table exercises geared to engage young children.
Associates Receive
AICP Certification
Congratulations to our Associates John
Skach,
AIA and Trupti Kalbag
for receiving their AICP
Certification.
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Trendsetter Cities of Excellence Awards
Congratulations to two of our clients for
being recognized with the Trendsetter
Cities of Excellence Awards offered by Georgia
Trend and the Georgia
Municipal Association. The Cuyler Brownsville Neighborhood in
Savannah received the honor in the large-city category and the
Suwanee Town Center Plan received an award for the medium city
category.
The Perimeter CID's Construction Bids
The Perimeter CIDs announced the "letting of construction bids"
for the $34.9 million Perimeter Flyover Bridge that will connect Perimeter
Center Parkway (near the Marriott Hotel, Gold Kist and Cotton States)
to Lake Hearn Drive. Along with providing a commute alternative to Ashford
Dunwoody Road, the bridge will create a new connection to the Dunwoody
MARTA Station.
Ivan Allen Boulevard Construction Started
Timed to coincide with the
opening of the new Georgia Aquarium, Ivan Allen Boulevard will
soon be the address of choice at the north end of Downtown Atlanta. Connecting
Peachtree Street with Northside Drive, the boulevard will provide
a needed east-west connection and access to the museum campus taking
shape at Centennial Olympic Park and the emerging mixed-use district
on Centennial Hill.
Midtown Cityscapes Streetscape Program
Construction is expected
to begin this month on $6 million in streetscape improvements in
Midtown Atlanta. The projects, along Peachtree Street (3rd
to 10th) and West Peachtree Street (North Avenue to 12th Street)
are part of the Midtown Cityscapes Program.
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