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TACTICAL REVITALIZATION PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN ALBANY NY

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Team Profile, Qualifications, and Experience<br />

Stoss Landscape Urbanism<br />

Milwaukee . wi . usa<br />

Erie Street Plaza<br />

Stoss Landscape<br />

Urbanism<br />

team lead, urbanism,<br />

landscape, planning<br />

Client<br />

City of Milwaukee<br />

Budget<br />

$850,000<br />

Size<br />

0.25 acres<br />

key personnel<br />

Chris Reed,<br />

design director<br />

Scott Bishop,<br />

project manager<br />

Milwaukee’s new waterfront plaza is the result of an<br />

international design competition won by Stoss. The proposal<br />

is for a flexible social space that can accommodate large<br />

gatherings and day-to-day activities, built on sustainable<br />

design principles. It is one of a series of public space<br />

activators along the Milwaukee Riverwalk, a three-mile<br />

pedestrian and bicycle corridor that connects downtown<br />

Milwaukee to the emerging and redeveloping Third Ward and<br />

Beerline Districts, and to the lake front beyond.<br />

The plaza is conceived as a flexible field that fosters<br />

social and environmental activity and appropriation. It<br />

activates and registers environmental cycles of stormwater by<br />

collecting runoff to support a reconstituted marsh / wetland,<br />

re-charges the groundwater tables, and utilizes river water<br />

for irrigation. Socially, the plaza is designed to accommodate<br />

a wide array of potential activities, including art festivals,<br />

gatherings, concerts, movies, weddings, festivals, farmer’s<br />

markets, and winter carnivals, as well as less intense, everyday<br />

activities like boat-watching, fishing, sunbathing, and<br />

simply hanging out.<br />

The project included extensive interface with the<br />

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the City of<br />

Milwaukee Public Works and Community Development<br />

Departments, the Planning and Fine Arts Commissions, and<br />

various community groups, abutters, and stakeholders.

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