by TRC_Admin | Dec 7, 2019 | Etc., Placemaking
Photo: Enchant Christmas
“Enchant Christmas, the world’s largest Christmas light maze and market featuring larger-than-life light sculptures is taking over Tropicana Field from Nov. 22 to Dec. 29.
Visitors will glide along the light-adorned ice skating trail, mosey through a Christmas market of more than 40 local artisan vendors, listen as carolers sing favorite holiday tunes, enjoy food and drinks, and visit with Santa at Santa’s Landing. ”
Photo: Enchant Christmas
— D’Ann Lawrence White, Patch Staff
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by TRC_Admin | Dec 7, 2019 | Placemaking
Photo: Scenic Jacksonville
“Scenic Jacksonville is proud to sponsor the ‘Sense of Place’ portion of the Timucuan Parks Foundation exhibit at the Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville. The exhibition, titled ‘Timucuan Parks Foundation: Celebrate and Explore Our Wilderness Parks,’ celebrates the foundation’s 20th anniversary and runs through May 31, 2020. ”
— Scenic Jacksonville
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by TRC_Admin | Nov 6, 2019 | Mural, Placemaking, Technology
Photo: Charlie Belcher, Charlie’s World, Fox 13 News
“Company brings wall murals into focus through smart app”
“There is a new way to learn even more about the murals in downtown St. Petersburg, thanks to Pixelstix.
They’ve teamed up with the folks from SHINE Mural Festival to create a digital gallery.
Using a smartphone with the Pixelstix app, visitors to a mural can scan a Pixelstix plaque which will load docent-level information about the mural and the artist onto their device.
Additionally, interactive maps show the locations of the festival’s collection of murals, creating a personalized mural tour… ”
— Charlie Belcher, Fox 13 News
See video to learn about the new technology, meet the founder of Pixelstix and experience Charlie’s World
Read more about the Shine Festival and murals in Tampa Bay Times
by TRC_Admin | Jun 1, 2019 | Placemaking, Trees
Photo: From article in FLAPOL
“The new St. Pete Pier is getting its first touches of nature this week. The city began planting the first of 700 trees throughout the district…
The first round of tree planting is happening in the marketplace area of the new pier district. That area is in front of the St. Petersburg Museum of History and north to about Spa Beach.
When completed, it will include several stalls for vendors including both food and retail as well as tables and chairs and shaded tent areas.
The palm trees will line the corridor, creating a tropical feel.
‘You’ll feel like you’re on vacation walking through the Pier District,’ the city wrote in a post accompanying the video…
— Janelle Irwin Taylor,FLAPOL
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by TRC_Admin | Feb 27, 2019 | Placemaking
Artist’s Rendering
“Miami’s newest infrastructure project happened after Meg Daly broke both her arms.
‘I couldn’t do anything for myself for a while,’ Daly says. After three weeks of getting driven to physical therapy, she decided to hop on Miami’s Metrorail, a mostly elevated rail system.
‘I ended up taking the train, getting off and then walking below the train above me,’ Daly says. That’s when she noticed the undeveloped land beneath the train. ‘I was like: Why aren’t we doing something with this land?’
Photo: Meg Daly
So she thought of the idea for the Underline, a 10-mile, 120-acre linear park with a walking and biking path that will be built under the rail tracks. The Underline, plans to connect South Miami, Coral Gables and downtown Miami, follows in the footsteps of projects such as New York City’s High Line and Atlanta’s BeltLine. Daly founded the nonprofit Friends of the Underline in 2015 in order to partner with Miami-Dade County — who owns the land — and secure funds for ongoing operations.
After years of planning and having discussions with the community, the Underline broke ground on Nov. 1, 2018, with the first half-mile segment now under construction. The management, maintenance and programming of the Underline will be run by the Underline Management Organization, a nonprofit represented by Friends of The Underline, Miami-Dade County, the Florida Department of Transportation, the Federal Transit Administration and three municipalities…”
— Adina Solomon, Next City
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by TRC_Admin | Nov 30, 2018 | Complete Streets, Placemaking
Photo: Jim Little, Pensacola News Journal
“Urban planning expert Jeff Speck told the Pensacola City Council on Thursday that creating and executing the right master plan for Community Maritime Park could ‘turn the corner’ on the revitalization of downtown Pensacola.
The City Council tapped Quint Studer and his company Studer Properties to develop a master plan for the remaining seven undeveloped parcels of the park. The master plan would also tie into the development of the former Emerald Coast Utilities Authority site that Studer owns, and connect that site and the park to the public water access at Bruce Beach…
Speck said the biggest challenge to developing any good plan to create a vibrant and walkable urban environment is how it conflicts with city codes that were written for a more suburban community.
‘It’s legally impossible almost everywhere in America to do that because the zoning ordinances and subdivision ordinances that most cities have are imported from suburbia,’ Speck said. ‘They’re auto-centric. They’re organized around an automobile, and they don’t let you build the kind of places we love…'”
— Jim Little, Pensacola News Journal
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