California Avenue corridor vision Plan
Chicago, Illinois
Client
Latinos Progressando
Description
Anchored by the Pink Line California Station, this planning effort focuses on the half-mile stretch (about a 10-minute walk) between 19th Street and 24th Street of California Avenue – from Douglass Park to the North and Marshall Boulevard to the South. The goal of this planning process is to create a neighborhood vision for an equitable, resilient, healthy, and vibrant corridor along California Avenue while improving walkability, safety and pedestrian experience at large. This planning process will look different due to COVID-19 social distancing considerations as we are reaching out to residents, business owners and community organizations in different ways to stay connected and active in the different stages of the process.
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COLLABO is serving as a subconsultant to Borderless Studio
Images Courtesy of Camiros, Ltd.
Green Healthy Neighborhoods Plan
Chicago, Illinois
Client
City of Chicago
Description
Green Healthy Neighborhoods (GHN) is a 10- to 20-year planning strategy to maximize the use of vacant land and other neighborhood resources within Chicago’s Englewood, West Englewood, Washington Park and Woodlawn community areas as well as parts of the New City, Fuller Park and Greater Grand Crossing community areas.
As a neighborhood stabilization plan, GHN seeks to mitigate factors that have fostered the decline of a 13-square-mile area that, for much of the city’s early history, was represented by economic growth and prosperity but, in more recent decades, has been characterized by disinvestment and population loss. In 2010, the area’s population of 148,000 people was less than 40 percent of its all-time high in 1940. Simultaneous to the population loss, many of the region’s dense residential buildings and vibrant commercial structures were vacated and replaced with 11,000 vacant lots, equivalent to more than 800 acres of vacant land. Chief among the GHN stabilization strategies are efforts to support urban agriculture, active and passive recreation, new industrial activity, housing preservation, and a variety of cultural resources within the GHN planning area.
results
GHN helped to initiate the City’s $1 Large Lot Program. As of 2020, 1,267 lots have been sold in total.
Further design of the Englewood Line Trail — converting a two-mile stretch of an abandoned elevated railway line into a linear park.
Adam Rosa led this project as a Principal at Camiros, Ltd.