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Citywide Plan: Imagine Boston 2030 RESPONSE TO Request for Proposal Citywide Plan: Imagine Boston 2030 Boston Redevelopment Authority July 20, 2015 Stantec’s Urban Places Group 226 Causeway Street, Boston, MA 02114 July 20, 2015 Ms. Teresa Polhemus Executive Director/Secretary Boston Redevelopment Authority Boston City Hall One City Hall Square, 9th Floor Boston, MA 02201 Reference: Request for Proposals, Citywide Plan: Imagine Boston 2030 Dear Ms. Polhemus: As Boston nears its 400th birthday, the city is looking forward to a new century with confidence and excitement. With its historic and walkable character, network of green space, and distinctive neighborhoods, Boston has the urban vitality that attracts economic growth and new residents in the twenty-first century. But growth and success also bring new challenges. Fifty years after the last citywide plan was created to reverse the city’s decline, Mayor Walsh launched Imagine Boston 2030 by inviting residents to be part of the citywide plan that will guide Boston as it enters its fifth century, and by recognizing the challenges the city faces. “We don’t just want to grow bigger. We want to grow smarter, more resilient and we want grow more equitably across the city. We need to make sure that while opportunity continues to grow, it needs to be shared.” Stantec’s Urban Places Group is excited to submit our proposal to the Boston Redevelopment Authority to lead the Core Team for Imagine Boston 2030. The Urban Places Group (UPG) was created in 2014, when David Dixon, FAIA, and Larissa Brown, PhD, AICP, along with four colleagues, moved from Goody Clancy to Stantec to create a specialty practice with our multidisciplinary firm of more than 15,000 employees. The Urban Places Group, made up of forty professionals in Boston and around the country, focuses on urban and urbanizing places, working with both public and private sector clients. UPG members facilitate urban revitalization, smarter growth, sustainability and resilience through integrated planning for land use, urban design, transportation, economic development, housing, open space, and equitable community development. We have experience building consensus in complex planning environments and with diverse communities. Our work has been recognized by multiple national, regional, and state awards from organizations such as, the American Planning Association (APA), Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), and American Institute of Architects (AIA)—and our plans get implemented. David Dixon, FAIA, will be the principal-in-charge and Larissa Brown, PhD, AICP will be project manager. A Boston resident, David has shaped the urban character of Boston and many other cities across the country in a career dedicated to creating vital urban places. He is particularly known for promoting the advantages of well-designed density and an exciting public realm. Larissa leads the UPG comprehensive planning practice and has directed and managed award-winning comprehensive plans. Together, they bring many decades of successful planning and urban design experience at all scales and in Boston, the region, and around the country. Joining us on the Core Team is a group of designers, a planning technology firm, and a group of public engagement specialists, many of whom we have worked with in the past: » Stull and Lee: a Boston firm with a distinguished track record of neighborhood planning and architecture in the city; » Stoss Landscape Urbanism: a Boston firm known for its innovative approach to nature in cities; » Höweler + Yoon Architecture: a Boston firm that has designed inventive public realm projects in the city; » Speck & Associates: the nation’s expert on walkability; » Manhan Group, LLC: creator of the regional land use allocation model for MAPC; » Consensus-Building Institute: a national and international leader in facilitating solutions to complex issues; » Regina Villa Associates: a Boston based public engagement specialist; » MORE Advertising: an advertising firm specializing in reaching typically underrepresented communities; and » Urban Interactive Studio: a digital communications firm that specializes in digital public engagement for planning projects. Our team is diverse in many ways. In addition to racial, ethnic, and gender diversity, we combine experienced and tested planning and urban design leadership with cutting edge design from the emerging generation of designers. We include the newest approaches to data-driven land use analysis and digital visualization with the warmth of hand-drawn renderings. Our community engagement specialists are experts in communications and face-to-face participation, and we also will have user-friendly and interactive digital participation to meet the needs of all citizens. Our team is ready to build on Boston’s successes and to work to make Boston a model of equity, resilience, livability, and prosperity for the next century. We look forward to presenting our qualifications and approach to you in person. If you have any questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact David or Larissa at the contact information below. Sincerely yours, Larissa Brown, PHD, AICP David Dixon, FAIA Principal Senior Principal P: (617) 654-6070 P: (617) 654-6069 [email protected] [email protected] Contents 1 Core Team 2 Quals and Experience 3 Process and Management 4 Public Engagement 5 Content/Approach 6 Resources and Schedule 7 Appendix A Samples of Relevant Work 8 Appendix B Exhibit E: Statement of Qualifications 9 Appendix C Exhibits D, F, G Core Team 1 1: Description of Core Team The Core Team will be led by Stantec’s Urban Places » Visionary plans that get implemented; Group (UPG), with Stantec serving as prime consultant » Strategies that reflect interdisciplinary thinking and and overall project manager. UPG focuses on urban and address public- and private-sector goals and needs; urbanizing places within our multidisciplinary firm of more » A commitment to defining public places and than 15,000 employees. As a specialized practice, UPG destinations that can serve as catalysts for attracting maintains the focus and responsiveness of a boutique firm. investment; As part of one of the world’s largest design firms, we can » Creative solutions that reflect economic, market, and call on field-leading experts in a broad array of disciplines financial realities; ranging from architecture to environmental remediation » Processes and visuals that attract and engage multiple and transportation planning to retail branding. With this stakeholders and produce solutions that have won clear focus and a unified interdisciplinary approach, the 40 wide public support and enthusiasm; and professionals of the Urban Places Group help communities » Implementation strategies that use limited public across North America develop visions and plans to chart a resources in a highly efficient way to attract maximum path to greater livability, equity, and sustainability. investment. UPG was created in 2014 and is led by David Dixon, FAIA Joining Stantec on the Core Team are two groups of firms; and Larissa Brown, PhD, AICP, who joined Stantec with four one group brings expertise in design and land use technology, other colleagues from Good Clancy. They have a long track and the other is focused on public engagement. Each of these record of national, state, and regional award-winning plans firms brings special qualities to the team and to the project. and recognition for excellence by the American Planning The land use, design, and placemaking group includes three Association, the American Institute of Architects, the Boston-based design firms, and a Massachusetts technology Congress for the New Urbanism, and other professional firm: associations. Perhaps most importantly, their plans get implemented. » Stull and Lee, a planning and architecture firm with a long track record of architecture and neighborhood Our Boston-based group of planners, urban designers, planning in Boston; architects, and landscape architects has long experience » Stoss Landscape Urbanism (Stoss), a design firm facilitating smarter growth, sustainability, and known for its innovative approach to landscape in economic growth in communities around the country cities; through integrated planning for land use, urban design, » Höweler + Yoon Architecture (HYA), designers transportation, economic development, community and architects of inventive public realm projects in revitalization, and green infrastructure and sustainability. Boston and elsewhere; We are experienced across scales, from multi-county regions » Speck & Associates, whose detailed focus on to cities, neighborhoods, and specific sites. We are known for walkability enhances the livability of dense urban building consensus in complex planning environments and spaces; and with diverse communities. » Manhan Group, LLC, a planning technology firm that built the Boston region’s land use allocation For the Imagine Boston 2030 project, David Dixon will model. be Principal-in-Charge and Larissa Brown will serve as Project Manager. Together, they bring many decades The public engagement team includes three firms based in of successful planning and urban design experience at all the region and a national digital specialist: scales and in Boston, our region, and around the country. They will be supported by Stantec planners, urban designers, » Consensus-Building Institute (CBI), a national architects, landscape architects, real estate and engineering and international leader in facilitating and mediating specialists,
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