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Comprehensive Master and Real Estate/ Zoning Development Plan for the City of Middletown's Riverfront Yale Urban Design Workshop Center for Urban Design Research udw.architecture.yale.edu Yale School of Architecture 1221 Chapel Street New Haven, Connecticut, USA T 203-764-5696 Founded in 1992, by Alan Plattus, then Associate Dean and Professor at the Yale School of Architecture, the Yale Urban Design Workshop (YUDW) is a community design center based at the School of Architecture. Since its founding, the YUDW has worked with communities across the state of Connecticut and around the world, providing planning and design assistance on projects ranging from comprehensive plans, economic development strategies and community visions to the design of public spaces, streetscapes and individual community facilities. Clients include small towns, city neighborhoods, planning departments, Chambers of Commerce, community development corporations, citizen groups, and private developers. After a number of years on the Yale campus, the YUDW currently occupies a space on Chapel Street in New Haven’s Dwight neighborhood, two blocks from the School of Architecture. In all its work, the YUDW is committed to an20 NOVEMBERinclusive, 2020 community-based process, grounded in broad citizen participation Comprehensiveand a vision of the design Master process as and a tool Real Estate/ for community organizing, empowerment, and capacity-building. A typical YUDW project may include design charrettes, focusZoning groups, andDevelopment town meetings, Plan as well for as more conventional means of program and theproject City development. of Middletown’s These projects Riverfront are staffed mainly by current graduate professional students at the Yale School of Architecture supervised by faculty of the School, but often also include Yale College undergraduates, recent graduates of the School as full-time staff, faculty and stu- WAGGONNER & BALL 2200 PRYTANIA STREET CONTACT PERSON: dents from Yale’s other professional schoolsARCHITECTURE/ENVIRONMENT (including the LawNEW School, ORLEANS, LAthe 70130 School ANDY STERNAD PHONE: 504) 524-5308 [email protected] of Forestry and Environmental Science, the School of Management,WBAE.COM the School of Public Health and the School of Art), as well as outside consultants and other local professionals. Much of the work and research of the YUDW has focused on strategies for regen- eration in Connecticut’s small postindustrial towns and cities. Neighborhood and downtown plans developed for places like New Britain, West Haven, and Bridgeport have engaged with complex questions of preservation, redevelopment, and shifting demographics and identity; considered the changing economics of urban cores; and encouraged walkability, bikability, sustainability, and controlled, coordinated growth. Recently, the YUDW has extended this focus internationally, consulting on the regen- eration of Gothenburg, Sweden. Another area of specific interest and research lies at the intersection between preservation, cultural heritage, redevelopment, tourism, and identity. Projects, including the Thames River Heritage Park in Groton and New London, Connecticut; the Naugatuck Valley Industrial Heritage Trail, funded through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Jordan River Peace Park on the Jordan River straddling the border between Israel and Jordan, derive much of their energy from a consideration of the place and representation of history in the city and in contemporary life. The most recent work of the YUDW has focused on developing and deploying strate- gies for coastal and urban resilience. As urban design consultants in a multidisci- plinary team that helped Bridgeport, Connecticut, secure $10 million in the Rebuild By Design competition from HUD, and now part of the team awarded the $42 mil- lion National Disaster Resilience Competition contract, the YUDW has investigated ways to integrate new infrastructure with the public realm, leveraging disaster re- covery funds to consolidate community identity and create new connections, while making Bridgeport a safer, more livable place. 2 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING Creative Engagement and Design Community members helped envision storm surge protection alignments through an interactive model as part of the design process for Resilient Bridgeport. WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 3 Table of Contents Cover Letter 5 Team Characteristics & Composition 7 Team Resumes 15 Project Experience 25 Required Documentation 37 4 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING Reclaimed and Revitalized Riverfront Resilient Bridgeport proposes a framework for revitalizing downtown by reconnecting the city to its river and improving its ecology. WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 5 November 20, 2020 Ms. Donna L. Imme, CPPB Supervisor of Purchases, City of Middletown Municipal Building Room 112 245 DeKoven Drive Middletown, CT 06457 RE: RFQ #2020-019 Comprehensive Master and Real Estate/Zoning Development Plan for the City of Middletown Riverfront Dear Selection Committee: It is our pleasure to submit qualifications to the City of Middletown’s Planning, Conservation and Development Department to create a master and real estate/zoning development plan for Middletown’s Riverfront district. This exciting and ambitious project, which will build on Middletown’s already substantial assets, including its direct and vivid relationship to the River, its position in the larger Connecticut River Valley region, its strong, engaged municipal institutions, and its historic Main Street and downtown with its active restaurants and businesses, has the potential to transform and reconnect a substantial part of the city to the water, while enriching its identity, enhancing the lives of its residents, increasing its accessibility, and making Middletown an even more vibrant and attractive place to live, work and invest. Our team has extensive experience developing community-based visions and master plans for complex urban projects like yours, and understands both the opportunities and challenges faced in designing and executing such a plan. Our integrated approach will focus on identifying and leveraging the unique local characteristics of the Middletown Riverfront while introducing innovative best practices and ideas from around the world that respond to Middletown’s specific goals and challenges. To accomplish this, we have assembled a team comprising highly collaborative, engaged professionals with diverse backgrounds in architecture, planning, urban design, landscape, and real estate consulting, and with a deep knowledge of Connecticut. The team is led byWaggonner & Ball Architecture/Environment, known nationally for their coastal resilience strategies and plans in cities including New Orleans, LA, Charleston, SC, Norfolk, VA and Bridgeport, CT. Waggonner & Ball is joined by the Yale Urban Design Workshop, a community design center based at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, which has worked in many of Connecticut’s towns and brings expertise in urban design, community engagement, and a global knowledge of best practices.Kooris Consulting, based in Stamford, brings a combination of experience in urban real estate and economic analysis, as well as knowledge of local and state public sector practices in economic development. This team most recently worked together leading the design of the award-winning Resilient Bridgeport project, funded by the State Department of Housing, which integrates new resilience infrastructure with historic neighborhoods and parks, a university campus, utility companies, and proposed a development framework for the city’s South End and Black Rock Harbor. Our values as a design team align closely with the guiding principles enumerated not only in your RFQ, but also in other planning documents prepared for the Riverfront over the years. We are committed to an open, transparent process that will engage residents, businesses, institutions, and elected officials, and are confident that working together, we can develop a plan that reflects and builds on Middletown’s desires and values, including inclusivity, accessibility, environmental stewardship, community health, and connectivity, while also addressing critical questions of economic development, reinvestment, flood protection and coastal resiliency. We look forward to the opportunity to meet with you. Sincerely, J. David Waggonner III, FAIA Principal/Owner Waggonner & Ball Architecture/Environment 2200 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130 504.524.5308 [email protected] Team Characteristics & Composition Vision for Connecticut, River to Coast Waggonner & Ball collaborated with Yale Urban Design Workshop and David Kooris on Resilient Bridgeport, a multi-phase effort that includes a range of pilot projects to improve resiliency and revitalize the downtown riverfront. 8 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING Team Composition We are locally grounded and internationally known for resilience and planning. The firms and individuals on our team have collaborated Through our inclusive, workshop-based approach to together in Connecticut since 2013 on Rebuild By Design planning we bring together a spectrum of stakeholders and now the Resilient Bridgeport plan and pilot projects. to generate ideas, refine scenarios, and ultimately build These long-standing professional and personal friendships consensus around concrete actions. As a team of small allow our team to leverage our strengths as one. We enjoy firms we are nimble and adaptable to the City's needs and working together with each other and in close partnership to the opportunities
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