Together with San Francisco Planning and The East Cut Community Benefit District, Street Plans is leading the public outreach strategy for the creation of the South Downtown Design and Activation Plan. With two community workshops held in 2017, interactive public outreach events and community workshops will continue through the Spring of 2018.

Street Plans was hired by the City of Jersey City to plan and implement six walkability workshops as a subconsultant to Fitzgerald & Halliday Inc. For each workshop, Street Plans designed and facilitated temporary curb extensions, which included a public-feedback board, tables and chairs, wayfinding signage, planters, and colorful paint.

Transportation Alternatives, a non-profit safe streets advocacy organization, launched the Streetopia campaign in 2017 to generate a vision to further transform New York City’s streets into havens of non-motorized activity. Street Plans was hired to design detailed visions for what car-free or car-lite neighborhood streets could look like in various neighborhoods across the city.

The NYC Plaza Program, which celebrated its 10th Anniversary this past Saturday, now boasts an impressive 30-acre portfolio with 74 locations citywide where streets have been repurposed into actively-programmed, partner-managed, neighborhood destinations. The program’s rapid growth was due in no small part to widely employing simple but transformative quick-build methods.