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Blog Post Large-scale redevelopment projects need to learn from small-scale historic neighborhoods
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Blog Post Is a mix of housing missing from your mall redevelopment equation?
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Blog Post Stantec’s Top 10 Ideas from 2024—plus 1 more for fun
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Blog Post What is a comprehensive plan? 6 steps to help your city
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Webinar Recording Placemaking for innovation: Creating innovation ecosystems
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Video How a historic city is redesigning its streets to work for everyone
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Report Catalyzing Calgary’s Downtown West
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Video Retrofitting Hammond, IN’s downtown core from car-centric to a walkable neighborhood
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Video How Albany converted an underused highway ramp into a city park
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Report Enhancing Montreal’s public spaces through strategic urban design
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Video Manhattan’s waterfront: Building relationships to redefine what’s possible
Downtown Revitalization & Redevelopment
Downtowns are more than the economic engines of our cities; they represent the identity of their communities. As the pace of change accelerates, we can help you chart a vibrant and resilient future.
Bringing new vibrancy to the urban center
Downtowns are evolving—and so is the ecosystem that defines them. A thriving center is more than buildings, roads, or open space; it’s a carefully curated mix of uses that drives physical, social, and economic renewal. From transforming underused areas into vibrant mixed-use districts to reconnecting neighborhoods through equitable infrastructure, we deliver bold, locally grounded solutions built to serve everyone—now and for generations to come.
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Meet Our Team
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Beth Elliott
Principal
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David Dixon
Vice President, Urban Places Fellow
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Ralph DeNisco
Senior Principal
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Steve Kearney
Principal
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Heidi Peper
Principal, Senior Funding Leader
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Ryan Givens
Senior Planner, Environmental Services
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Chris Jennings
Senior Principal, Discipline Leader, Community Development, (Landscape Architecture)
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Wei Jin
Urban Designer
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Margaret Newman
Practice Leader
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Jason Schrieber
Senior Principal
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Andrew McCray
Urban Planner