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Regeneration Working with Murphy, NC, on Downtown Public Spaces
The Town of Murphy issued an RFP for design services and grant writing for downtown public space improvements in August, 2022. Murphy, if you are not familiar with the town, is about the farthest west you can travel in North Carolina. Surrounded by mountains and...
New Bern & Goldsboro Streetscapes win NCAPA “Great Places” Awards
The North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association (NCAPA) announced on March 3, 2015 that the Goldsboro Streetscape Project was selected as the "Great Main Street in the Making" honoree, and in the Professional Category, New Bern's Middle Street was...
Magazine Article on Center Street Streetscape, Goldsboro, NC
Goldboro Streetscape Wins NC Main Street Award
Goldsboro hosted the largest-ever NC Main Street Conference in March of 2016. Over 500 Main Street enthusiasts from around the state and from neighboring states attended. The streetscape project won an award for "Best Outdoor Space Improvement" at the award ceremony....
Gardens vs. Dinosaurs
I became a Landscape Architect because I loved gardening. When I was living in Ithaca, New York, I owned a house on five acres above Trumansburg on the ridge between Lake Seneca and Lake Cayuga. It is breathtakingly beautiful in this part of upstate New York, with...
Designing for Healthy Urban Trees, Part 1
Nearly everyone loves, or at least appreciates, the value of trees in urban settings. They cool the air, filter up to 50% of nearby air pollution, produce oxygen, and provide shade (especially appreciated here in our southern climate). So it is a cruel irony that such...