TSW LCI Study Areas Receive Transportation Funding

TSW has completed over 20 Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) studies and implementation projects through the Atlanta Regional Commission’s (ARC) program. Recently, ARC awarded 13 governments a total of $34 million to build innovative transportation projects that emerged from LCI studies.

TSW LCI study areas that were awarded funding this year include:

Atlanta, Ponce de Leon Avenue Pedestrian Facilities and Beltline Connections, $4 million

Decatur, Clairemont-Commerce-Church Bike and Pedestrian Improvements, $2.1 million

Doraville, New Peachtree Bike and Pedestrian Improvements, $2.3 million

Monroe, North Broad Street Bike and Pedestrian Improvements, $1.6 million

Midtown Atlanta was also awarded $3.4 million for Juniper Street Bike and Pedestrian Facilities, which TSW’s Landscape Architecture Studio will be leading the design for.

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Woodstock Community Church Featured in The Cherokee-Ledger News

Janet Pelletier of the The Cherokee Ledger-News wrote a great article on TSW’s design and recent award for Woodstock Community Church. For the full article, click here.

TSW’s Longwood Home Plans Recognized by Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association

Brock Built Homes was awarded a Gold OBIE in the Single Family Builder Detached Urban Redevelopment Revitalization $299,999 and under category for Dupont Commons. TSW completed both the planning and architecture for the Longwood home products (see images below) at Dupont Commons.

The OBIE Awards are given out each year by the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association and are the premier awards in Atlanta’s residential building industry. For more information visit Atlanta Real Estate Forum.

 

TSW Grove Park Residential Renovation

TSW’s Architecture Studio recently completed the renovation of a single-family home in Atlanta’s Grove Park neighborhood. Check out the before and after images.

City of Woodstock Receives PEDS Golden Shoe Award

The City of Woodstock was recently awarded a Golden Show Award by PEDS for Pedestrian-friendly Suburban Retrofit for redesigning downtown streets for pedestrians.

TSW has been involved with the City of Woodstock since 2003: developing their Downtown Master Plan and Form-Based Code; completing master planning, architecture, and landscape architecture for the Woodstock Downtown mixed-use development; and designing and completing construction documents for several blocks of their Main Street.

For more information on TSW’s involvement with the City of Woodstock, visit our Woodstock Project page.

TSW Folk Victorian Whole House Renovation

While her outside (and inside for that matter) were in rough shape, the dignity that this house embodied was not hard to miss for a trained eye. The triple-hung 9′ tall front windows whose sill rested on the deep front porch, the 12′ ceilings and gracious room sizes, just to name a few aspects made it an historic structure ripe for a modern renovation.

 

Throughout the project contemporary and sustainable interiors are contrasted and highlighted against the unique and charming historic exterior.  Opening up the original center hall into living, dining, and kitchen areas make the public areas of the house feel voluminous and fitting to a modern family.  A translucent (with high recycled content) kitchen island serves as the hub of the entertaining area while hip and gauzy pendants accentuate that node.  Salvaging the heart pine floors and weaving in pine lap siding into the mud room and laundry area made for fun and creative riffs on the old house.  Lofting the master bedroom made for another very tall space and new windows throughout keep it sunny but comfortable.  Icynene and InsulSmart spray foam insulation was added to roofline, walls, and floor for a tight and economical thermal envelope.  The master bathroom had a counter and mirror of heart pine taken recycled from studs from demolition and the hall bath had a wainscoting made from the same material.  Bathrooms are made sustainable and healthful with Caroma dual flush toilets, Delta humidity sensing vent fans, and Velux sun tunnels.

 

TSW’s Doraville 2010 Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) Study Wins Award

The City of Doraville’s Downtown Master Plan, an LCI Study, received an award for Outstanding Planning Document – Large Community at the Georgia Planning Association’s (GPA) Fall Conference last week.  The September 30^th awards ceremony concluded GPA’s three day conference in Savannah.

The GPA is an official Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA).  GPA is 1,000-plus member organization of professional planners and planning officials who serve Georgia’s communities in many ways, at all levels of government, the private sector and non-profit organizations.

GPA awards communities both small and large.  In addition to Outstanding Planning Document, categories include: Outstanding Planning Process; Outstanding Plan Implementation; Outstanding Educational Tool; Outstanding Initiative; Outstanding Student Project; Great Places in Georgia (Public Spaces); Grassroots Initiative
and the Distinguished Leadership Award.

The 2010 Downtown Doraville Master Plan was a seven month, long-term community planning process that focused on a 689 acre study area, which included the New Peachtree/ Shallowford Road corridor, the section of Buford Highway between I-285 and Shallowford Road, the GM property and areas north and west of the former assembly plant.

The subject of the study focused primarily on the GM plant redevelopment and transportation connectivity to and from the site.  In addition to communicating a community’s vision, goals and aspirations, transportation projects identified in LCI studies are eligible for federal transportation funding.

The entire study can be downloaded at www.tunspan.com/doraville.