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.