Comprehensive Master and Real Estate/ Zoning Development Plan for the City of Middletown's Riverfront

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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 regeneration 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 regeneration 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 strategies for coastal and urban resilience. As urban design consultants in a multidisciplinary 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 million National Disaster Resilience Competition contract, the YUDW has investigated ways to integrate new infrastructure with the public realm, leveraging disaster recovery 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

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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 that arise during the design process. with clients and communities, and we seek out projects with As project designers and leaders we pride ourselves on our the scope, scale, and ambition of Middletown: places where commitment to implementation over the long term. we hope to establish long-term relationships and contribute meaningfully to character and growth. Key to this project will be the development of an interconnected waterfront that leverages the spirit and As current and former residents of Connecticut, we bring experience of the river into a valuable asset for the City, an appreciation for the specificity of Middletown with a community, and new investors alike. As cities around the perspective on regional connections and current global world return to their waterfronts we recognize Middletown's trends. We maintain working relationships with local public unique opportunity to create a world-class place at home on and private sector leaders around the state with experience the Connecticut River. creating precedent-setting resilient urban developments in the U.S. and abroad.

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Waggonner & Ball Architecture/Environment New Orleans, LA

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LOCATION FOUNDED / STAFF SERVICES NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 1970 / 25 URBAN DESIGN COLLABORATIVE VISIONING BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT RESILIENCE PLANNING INSTITUTIONAL (TEMPORARY SATELLITE STORMWATER MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE 2014-2017) VISUAL COMMUNICATION HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Adaptive Design requires Living with WaterTM Regional Scale and Building with Nature.

Waggonner & Ball Architecture/Environment is located in New Orleans, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico. Our collaborative Living with Water™ approach to resilient design has benefitted cities and projects around the globe.

Our work spans a range of scales, from buildings to landscapes, from cities to watersheds, and a range of clients, from private institutions to city, state and federal governments. Our work also spans a range Louisiana's Strategic Adaptations for Future of places, including resilience projects from the US Gulf and East Environments (LA SAFE) Coasts to South India, and architecture projects from the French Risk zone mapping, resilient development guidelines, and Quarter to Beijing. No matter where we work, we draw on the local pilot project design across a six parish coastal region. and particular while engaging our global context of a changing climate, precarious economic conditions, and powerful new City Scale technologies. We align cutting-edge best practices and technical analysis with underlying deep structures of culture, character and place. Our work emphasizes qualities more fundamental than style, and our focus is always on essential matters: soil, water, ecology, climate, space and light.

Our current work includes resilient waterfront design in Houston, Rebuild By Design & Resilient Bridgeport green infrastructure and watershed planning in Louisiana, coastal Urban resilience master plan and adaptations to critical defense and land use planning in Charleston, and campus planning infrastructure and the Olmsted-designed Seaside Park. and architecture in Beijing, China. We also have deep ties to Connecticut: together with Yale Urban Design Workshop we remain Building Scale engaged in waterfront planning and design in Bridgeport, where we have worked since the Resilient By Design effort in 2014, and many of our staff and principals are graduates of Yale School of Architecture.

Beginning after Hurricane Katrina, our firm developed a workshop- based approach to resilient design called Living With Water™. The process covers multiple scales, from curb to coast, and incorporates multiple benefits. The resulting plans reinforce local character, draw on natural assets and ecosystem services, and build consensus toward action among stakeholder groups.

We see ourselves as public investment advisors for cities and states, Historic New Orleans Collection we bring experience leveraging public-private partnerships and innovative financing strategies from environmental impact bonds to Renovation of an 1816 museum wing and a new LEED Silver addition at a historic French Quarter site. tax credits, and we have a record of federal funding success securing over $400 million in National Disaster Resilience grants for projects in Louisiana, Virginia and Connecticut. 2200 PRYTANIA STREET NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130 +1 504 524 5308 WBAE.COM LIVINGWITHWATER.COM 10 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING

Yale Urban Design Workshop Center for Urban Design Research

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Much of the work and research of the YUDW has focused on strategies for regeneration in Connecticut’s small postindustrial towns and cities. Neighborhood and WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 11

Kooris Consulting is a full service real estate support and urban planning firm. Principal Jessica Kooris specializes in real estate economic analysis focusing on urban redevelopment, brownfield revitalization, and navigating complex projects through local boards and commissions. Principal David Kooris has a robust public sector experience at the state and local level in economic development, resilience, sustainability, transit-oriented development, and downtown revitalization. Together we work for a broad range of public and private clients looking to identify infrastructure investment priorities and maximize value and opportunity on underperforming land. The firm leverages national best practices to identify client-based solutions that balance economic, environmental, and social outcomes. A key current project is an economic analysis of a large scale urban brownfield redevelopment in a midsized Connecticut city for a national brownfield redevelopment consultancy. Services performed include:

• Translating conceptual site plans into quantitative projections of value • Calculating employment generation resultant from multiple land use scenarios • Assessing public sector revenue streams accruing to local and state government during the construction phase and stabilization period • Estimating implementation cost to implement infrastructure investments necessary to facilitate project realization and to deliver various public improvements identified as priorities by the host municipality • Explored alternative sources for funding necessary improvements including federal and state grants, municipal bond support, and value capture mechanisms such as tax increment financing.

Kooris Consulting continues to demonstrate its responsive and adaptive approach as clients' objectives inevitably evolve.

Kooris Consulting

30 Chester Street Stamford, CT 06905 [email protected] (203) 559-5391 koorisconsulting.com

David Kooris leading a planning workshop in Marina Village, Bridgeport, CT as part of Rebuild By Design. (source: Waggonner & Ball) 12 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING Planning Principles We create integrated, innovative plans that enhance local character.

Shared values guide successful projects. We support Middletown's goals and principles outlined in the RFQ, and our past experience shows how they can translate into plans and actions and create cohesive communities.

1. Create a vibrant, mixed-use district District design takes advantage of natural assets of the site—river access and transit connectivity—with an awareness of regional markets.

Project Example: Norfolk Ohio Creek Watershed Plan, Norfolk, VA

2. Build an inclusive community Diversity is foundational to successful design and successful places, beginning with bringing a full spectrum of stakeholders to the table and developing consensus together.

Project Example: Resilient Bridgeport All-Scales Norfolk's Ohio Creek plan stitches highways, wetlands and new development Workshop, Bridgeport, CT 3. Attract investment Good ideas, properly leveraged, attract funding and inspire action. W&B's New Orleans Urban Water Plan resulted in a $141 million federal award, and our Living With Water Houston BUILDING planning workshops unlocked over $20 million in Texas state tax SCALE REGIONAL SCALE credit financing. CITY SCALE NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE

WATERSHED Project Example: South Lockwood Development on SCALE Buffalo Bayou, Houston, TX

COASTAL SCALE 4. Energize a healthy active living environment through connectivity DISTRICT STATE SCALE SCALE Walking and biking pathways can be integrated with natural assets and supported by new urban destinations. Accessibility and interest for all ages enlivens the experience of residents day-to-day, weekend visitors and regional commuters.

The All Scales Workshop in Bridgeport, CT, during Rebuild by Design. WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 13

5. Diversify transportation options Consider parking today, but also future scenarios where car use and car density may differ significantly from today. Highways must be addressed simultaneously as a connector and a barrier, including an accounting of work in the pipeline.

Project Example: Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, New Orleans, LA

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Project Alternatives Workshop September 20, 2016 Join us at 7 Middle, downtown Bridgeport, on September 20!

Tuesday, September 20, 6-7:30 p.m. Come provide your input on proposed project alternatives for Bridgeport’s South End. Raised roads, stormwater parks, pumps, and green “I’ve been very involved and I want to continue to be. I’m infrastructure are all possibilities. What combination will provide the excited that the design team most benefits for the community? is looking at how the water is flowing. We should stick together NEXT COMMUNITY EVENT and work together.” November 2016 “This is long overdue. It takes a storm to get Join us on Friday, June 10, for a day of activities focused on sea level rise, cultural Visit our website: Resilientbridgeport.com people together. Finally, heritage, and design strategies for Bridgeport’s coastline. Follow us on Facebook @resilientbridgeport we’re going forward.” 11:30 - 1 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Follow us on Twitter @resilientbpct -Bridgeport Community Cultural Heritage & Sea Level Rise Members Location: 7 Middle St. , Downtown Bridgeport CULTURE & CLIMATE Follow us on Instagram @resilientbridgeport Adam Markham, Union of Concerned Scientists Jeana Wiser, National Trust for Historic Preservation JUNE 10, 2016 View video from past events on YouTube: Resilient Bridgeport 1 - 3:30 p.m. Open Studio If you missed our first Broadsheet “Design Conditions,” you can pick Design Strategies for Change NEXT COMMUNITY EVENT up a copy at 7 Middle, or view it on Facebook. And take a look at the Location: 7 Middle St. , Downtown Bridgeport newly released Bridgeport Atlas! This resource captures key challenges JULY 23, 2016 and opportunities throughout the study area as they relate to the city’s 4 - 7 p.m. Open House at the University of Bridgeport environmental history, urban development, water management, and Design Conditions & Strategies ecology. Location: UB Student Center, Great Room (244 University Ave.) WAGGONNER & BALL Find the links on our Facebook page. 5 - 6 p.m. Neighborhood Walk WAGGONNER & BALL Stories on the Ground Rev. 2016_0913 Meeting Point: UB Student Center, Great Room (244 University Ave.)

Marsh grass with ribbed mussels (Image Source: Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Base Map: 1848 Survey of the Coast of the United States

We created a series of educational broadsheets in Bridgeport to inform residents and engage them in the planning process.

7. Engage the community There is joy in rediscovering and transforming familiar places. Community planning is the beginning of memory making and the creation of lasting connections to place. Past as prologue: historic Connecticut River uses, like the brown stone quarry in Portland, inspire new uses and local character. Project Example: Thames River Projects, CT 8. Promote environmental stewardship and community health

We see water as Middletown's prime asset and the basis of its character and identity. Nurture, protect, connect.

Project Example: Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, New Orleans, LA

9. Provide Recreational Activity Solid planning builds on a strong foundation of existing uses, such as the Connecticut Paddler's Trail, boating, and water activity in Brownstone Park, and provides for new ones at the interface of land and water.

Natural and man-made systems create opportunities for connection. Team Resumes

Patterns from History Geographical features and settlement inform present day development of Middletown.

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J. David Waggonner III, FAIA Principal

EDUCATION M. ARCH, YALE UNIVERSITY B.A., DUKE UNIVERSITY

REGISTRATION LOUISIANA, CALIFORNIA

Contact Selected Projects [email protected] NDR: Ohio Creek Watershed Norfolk, VA Professional and Civic Affiliations • Facilitator for the NDRC- HUD National Disaster Resilience related Rockefeller Resilience Competition (NDRC) Academies State of Connecticut • Core Team Organizer for Commonwealth of Virginia Rebuild by Design University’s State of Louisiana (RBDU) design curriculum for City of New Orleans University of Pennsylvania, • AIA Louisiana Merit Award New York University, and Yale University Dutch Dialogues Virginia • FEMA National Risk Index Norfolk, VA Natural Hazards Working Group St. Paul's Blue/Greenway • American Planning Norfolk, VA Association Water Task Force • LSU Coastal Sustainability Resilient Hampton, Phase I and Studio Board Phase II • Trust for Public Land Louisiana Hampton, VA Advisory Council • Edible Schoolyard Task Force Hampton-Langley Joint Land Use David Waggonner is the founding principal of Waggonner & • New Orleans Business Alliance Study Addendum Strategic Advisory Committee Hampton, VA Ball, an internationally active architecture and environment • Preservation Resource practice based in New Orleans. He is a graduate of the Yale Center of New Orleans Board Dutch Dialogues Charleston School of Architecture, and in 2010 was elevated to the and Architectural Review Charleston, SC position of Fellow in the American Institute of Architects Committee • The Coastal Index Advisory Resilient Bridgeport: (FAIA). In 2016, David was awarded the AIA Louisiana Medal Committee Rebuild By Design International of Honor. From preservation to modern architecture to urban • Regional Plan Association Competition, Rebuild By Design Revitalization through Pilot Project, Strategy, NDR design, locally and internationally, quality and innovation Resiliency Technical Advisory are hallmarks of his work. His maxim, “know where you Committee Bridgeport, CT • Yale Club of Louisiana are,” imparts both an understanding of place and a critical Living With Water Houston President awareness of time. • Lake Pontchartrain Basin Houston, TX Foundation Board Member NDR: LA SAFE Resilience In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, David saw a critical Planning Teaching Experience opportunity for New Orleans to reinvent itself as a sustainable • Technical University Delft Louisiana (6 parishes) city that embraces its lifeblood: water. He championed a • Yale University NDR: Gentilly Resilience District process that examines history, soils, biodiversity, infrastructure • Harvard University • University of Pennsylvania New Orleans, LA networks, urban space and habitation, along with the forces • Washington University in St. Greater New Orleans Urban of water. This combination serves as a holistic foundation for Louis Water Plan design, initiated during the Dutch Dialogues in New Orleans, • University of Oregon • Tulane University Metro New Orleans, LA developed through the Greater New Orleans Urban Water • National Planning Excellence Plan, and now being implemented in multiple projects across Selected Awards Award, Environmental Planning, • 96 Design & Construction Awards American Planning Association the country, including the winning National Disaster Resilience • AIA Louisiana Merit Award Competition (NDRC) entries. • 62 AIA Design Awards • AIA Medal of Honor, AIA Louisiana, Mirabeau Water Garden 2016 New Orleans, LA Related efforts have produced a Rebuild by Design award • National Planning Excellence Award for Environmental Planning, for Bridgeport, Connecticut, as well as NDRC awards for the Dutch Dialogues New Orleans American Planning Association, New Orleans, LA City of New Orleans, and States of Louisiana, Connecticut, 2015 • • National Preservation Award, AIA Louisiana Honor Award for and Virginia. The Dutch Dialogues workshop model has been Master Planning/Urban Design successfully replicated in Norfolk and Hampton, Virginia, as National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2012 well as Charleston, South Carolina, and Houston, Texas. • National Honor Award for Design in Historic Preservation, General Services Administration, 1996 WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 17

Andy Sternad LEED AP BD + C Architect & Urban Designer

EDUCATION M. ARCH, YALE UNIVERSITY B.A. ARCHITECTURE, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

REGISTRATION MASSACHUSETTS

Contact Rebuild By Design International [email protected] Competition: Resilient Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT Professional & Civic Affiliations • NCARB Lafitte Greenway Sustainable Water Design • American Planning Association New Orleans, LA • Design Consultant, Ripple • AIA Louisiana Merit Award Effect, 2013–present • New Orleans Business Alliance Dutch Dialogues: New Orleans Economic Development New Orleans, LA Ambassador, 2019 • AIA Louisiana Honor Award • AIA Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team (R/UDAT) New Selected Projects with Orleans, 2018 William Rawn Associates, Architects Recognition King Open School & Valente • Parsons Medal for Urban Library Complex Design, Yale University Cambridge, MA • Widmann Prize, Washington University in St. Louis Seaport Performing Arts Center Concept Study Boston, MA Originally from Stamford, Andy is a leader in Waggonner & Selected Projects Stormwater Opportunities: Spirit Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Ball's resilience practice, first joining the firm in 2010 and of Charity, Lafitte Greenway, Institute returning in 2018. He focuses on the creation of water design Armstrong Park Cleveland, OH strategies at urban and building scales, seeking holistic New Orleans, LA solutions that reveal the character of place and integrate issues of climate, ground, economy, and people. Andy is a City Plan 2030 Land & Water Analysis client liaison for a range of public and private projects, works Charleston, SC to build collaborative relationships with industry experts, and coordinates the firm's architectural and urban design Dutch Dialogues Charleston marketing and business development efforts. Charleston, SC Living With Water Houston Andy was a key participant in the New Orleans Dutch Houston, TX Dialogues, a collaboration between Dutch and American Isle de Jean Charles engineers, designers, and planners to re-envision the city's Resettlement Planning relationship to water after Hurricane Katrina. He was a lead Terrebonne Parish, LA author of the ensuing Greater New Orleans Urban Water Gretna Resilience District Plan, recognized by the American Planning Association with a Gretna, LA National Excellence Award in 2015. Currently Andy manages the firm's work on the Isle de Jean Charles resettlement plan, Water As Leverage for Resilient Cities Asia a first-of-its-kind effort in the U.S. to relocate an entire coastal Chennai, India community, and he led the firm's engagement with the Water As Leverage program in Chennai, India. Beijing City International School Wangjing Campus Planning Beijing, China Previously Andy worked at William Rawn Associates in Boston, where he focused on the public realm aspects of education, Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan healthcare, and performing arts projects. Since 2013, Andy Metro New Orleans, LA has served as a Design Consultant for Ripple Effect, a teacher- • National Planning Excellence designer collaboration on standards-based water literacy Award, Environmental Planning, American Planning Association curricula for local New Orleans schools. • AIA Louisiana Merit Award 18 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING

Jaime Ramiro Diaz LEED AP Project Designer

EDUCATION M. ARCH, TULANE UNIVERSITY

Contact State of Louisiana [email protected] State of Connecticut Commonwealth of Virginia Professional & Civic Affiliations Greater New Orleans Urban • City of New Orleans Board of Water Plan Zoning Adjustments Metro New Orleans, LA • Groundwork New Orleans, • National Planning Excellence Board President Award, Environmental Planning, • Trust For Public Land, Climate American Planning Association Smart Cities: Absorb Advisory • AIA Louisiana Merit Award Panel • WEF National Green Mirabeau Water Garden Infrastructure Certification New Orleans, LA Program Oversight Committee • Little Library of Water (with City Park Stormwater New Orleans Public Library and Management Imagine Water Works) New Orleans, LA

Recognition Living with Water Houston • Ronald F. Katz Award, Tulane Houston, TX University Tulane University Stormwater Selected Projects Master Plan Ramiro Diaz is an architectural and urban designer, and Virginia NDR: Ohio Creek New Orleans, LA Watershed photographer, and has been with Waggonner & Ball since Norfolk, VA Tulane University Institutional 2004. He is a design leader in the resilience and water strategy Master Plan practice, and leads the firm’s data analysis and GIS initiatives. St. Paul's Blue/Greenway New Orleans, LA Norfolk, VA A frequent lecturer and tour leader, Ramiro is expert at Lafitte Greenway Sustainable integrating architecture, landscape, and water system Dutch Dialogues Virginia Water Design challenges into pictures that suggest innovative solutions and Norfolk, VA New Orleans, LA • capture the spirit of place. AIA Louisiana Merit Award for Resilient Hampton, Phase I and Master Planning/Urban Design Phase II Ramiro is a client liaison, project designer, and collaboration Hampton, VA Dutch Dialogues New Orleans New Orleans, LA leader for resilience urban design projects. He plays a key role Hampton-Langley Joint Land Use • AIA Louisiana Honor Award for organizing and participating in the firm's Dutch Dialogues and Study Addendum Master Planning/Urban Design Living With Water™ design workshops. Ramiro coordinated Hampton, VA Main Street Resiliency Plan with consultants and the City of New Orleans to extensively Dutch Dialogues Charleston New Orleans, LA map the Gentilly area in order to quantify need and determine Charleston, SC project focus areas resulting in the city's HUD National Jefferson Parish Smart Growth Plan Disaster Resilience award. Currently, Ramiro is lead designer Resilient Bridgeport: NDR Pilot Bridgeport, CT Metairie, LA and Gretna, LA of the NDR Ohio Creek Project in Norfolk, VA, providing coastal and stormwater protection and urban amenities. Rebuild By Design International St. Bernard Parish Integrated Competition: Resilient Bridgeport Water Resources Management Bridgeport, CT Plan Ramiro has given presentations on sustainable urban water St. Bernard Parish, LA management at venues including the APA and USGBC New Orleans NDR: Gentilly St. Claude Avenue Streetscape Greenbuild national conventions, CPEX Smart Growth Resilience District New Orleans, LA Design Summit, and the American Institute of Architects in New Arabi, LA Orleans, Miami, and Basel, Switzerland. He is a frequently Louisiana NDR: LA SAFE Old Arabi Revitalization Plan invited guest critic and lecturer at Tulane University's School Resilience Planning Louisiana (6 parishes) Arabi, LA of Architecture. He is board president of Groundwork New Orleans and serves on the New Orleans Board of Zoning HUD National Disaster Resilience St. Bernard Parish Louisiana Land Trust (LLT) Vacant Lot Study Adjustments. Competition City of New Orleans St. Bernard Parish, LA • AIA Louisiana Merit Award WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 19

Kelli Reinhardt Architect & Landscape Designer

EDUCATION M. ARCH, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY M. LANDSCAPE ARCH, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY B. ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

REGISTRATION LOUISIANA

Contact [email protected]

Professional & Civic Affiliations • NCARB

Recognition • Dean's Medal, Louisiana State University • Henry Adams Medal, Louisiana State University • ASLA Honor Award, Louisiana State University

Selected Projects NDR: Resilient Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT

Resilient Bridgeport Pilot Project Bridgeport, CT

Resilient Bridgeport Strategy Kelli joined Waggonner & Ball in 2016 after receiving Masters Bridgeport, CT Degrees in both Architecture and Landscape Architecture NDR: Ohio Creek Watershed from Louisiana State University. Since joining the firm, Norfolk, VA Kelli has been an integral part of the multi-phase Resilient Dutch Dialogues Virginia Bridgeport projects, where she has led team coordination, Hampton Roads, VA community engagement programs, research, and project design. She is currently leading the firm's efforts for the Beijing City International School Wangjing Campus Resilient Bridgeport Pilot Project, a stormwater park adjacent Beijing, China to redeveloped public housing, and National Disaster Resilience (NDR): Resilient Bridgeport, which features coastal Beijing City International School Main Campus Renovation edge protection from rising waters that yields multiple Beijing, China benefits. An ongoing, multi-year project, NDR: Resilient Bridgeport improves the resilience of a historic neighborhood, Yuecheng Banbidian Park and Pavilion and is designed to integrate into a historic park designed by Beijing, China Frederic Law Olmsted. City Park Botanical Garden Exhibit Hall Kelli is also a design team member for the Beijing City New Orleans, LA International School (BCIS) Wangjing Campus, a 970,000 square foot K-12 grade campus in Beijing, China. This Brother Martin Cafeteria Renovation and Landscape ambitious and complex urban design and architectural New Orleans, LA effort includes site analysis of different potential locations, programming, and close collaboration with school staff. The Tulane University: City Diner Ceiling Renovation project is currently in design phase. New Orleans, LA

While in school, Kelli worked as a research assistant for the Tulane University: Le Gourmet Renovation LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio, focusing on community- New Orleans, LA driven coastal resiliency projects. As a graduate teaching assistant, she taught a course on digital representation. Metairie Park Country Day School: Science Building and She has also taught a course on site strategies at the Tulane Dining Expansion University School of Architecture. Metairie, LA 20 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING

Affiliated Faculty Alan J. Plattus, Founding Director

Alan Plattus is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Yale University School of Architecture. He has an independent practice as an urban planning consultant and has lectured across the country and abroad on architectural theory, urban history and contemporary urbanism. He also founded and is a director of the Yale Urban Design Workshop, a community design center based at the School of Architecture that has pursued practice-based research on the form and function of neighborhoods, towns and regions, and has undertaken civic design projects in cities and towns throughout Connecticut. Professor Plattus frequently conducts design charrettes and policy workshops for citizens and civic leaders. For his contributions to the City of New Haven, Professor Plattus was presented with the Elm-Ivy Award by the Mayor of New Haven and the President of Yale.

In May of 2008, Professor Plattus assembled and led a Yale team that worked with Friends of the Earth Middle East to develop plans for a Peace Park on the border between Jordan and Israel along the Jordan River. The charrette involved an un- precedented collaboration of design professionals and citizens of Jordan, Israel and Palestine, and has been the subject of a recent documentary film.

Professor Plattus was the Chairman of the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Task Force, an interdisciplinary team that prepared a new master plan for the 1200-acre park in New York City. The plan was awarded a Progressive Architecture Urban Design Cita- tion. He has also collaborated with Diana Balmori on the design of an urban greenway along the route of the abandoned Farmington Canal corridor. This project has been awarded a Connecticut AIA/ALA Public Space Award.

Along with his work as an urban designer, Professor Plattus has served on the Commit- tee for the Third Regional Plan of New York and is a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design. He was the Chair of the Education Task Force for the Congress for the New Urbanism. In New Haven, he was a member of the Research Committee of the Re- gional Economic Growth Partnership and has served on the Boards of the New Haven Trust for Historic Preservation, the Eli Whitney Museum, the Foote School, and the Connecticut Main Street Center.

Professor Plattus has published scholarly and critical articles on topics ranging from the history of cities to recent American architecture and urbanism. He edited and wrote an introduction to a new edition of The American Vitruvius: An Architect’s Handbook of Civic Art (Princeton Architectural Press, 1989), a crucial text of American urbanism . He is a senior editor of the reference work, Time-Saver Standards for Ur- ban Design, published by McGraw-Hill, and was an editor of the anthology Re-reading Perspecta (MIT Press, 2006). His scholarly work includes research in European and American archives on the history of civic pageantry and funded research on industrial and post-industrial cities. He was a member of the editorial boards of Architectural Research Quarterly and the Journal of Architectural Education, and writes for the Hartford Courant on architecture and planning issues.

In 1987, Professor Plattus helped to organize, chair, and edit the published proceed- ings of the annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the theme of which was Architecture and Urbanism. He has also served on the ACSA Board of Directors and was the Associate Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education. He served three years as the ACSA appointee to the Board of Directors of the National Architectural Accreditation Board and was the President of the Board in 1995-96.

Professor Plattus teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses at the Yale School of Architecture, where he was Associate Dean of the School for ten years. He also directed the School’s China Studio, a collaboration between Yale & Tsinghua University in Beijing. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale in 1976, and his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University in 1979. Before returning to Yale, he taught for seven years at Princeton and since returning has been a Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center and of Silliman College. WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 21

Affiliated Faculty Andrei Harwell, AIA, Director of Design

Andrei Harwell, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, NCARB is an architect, urban designer, and design educator with more than 20 years experience developing award-winning conceptual strategies and design projects that respond to contemporary issues and challenges facing American and world cities, towns and urban regions. Much of his recent work has focused on the integration of buildings, infrastructure, and the natural environment at the neighborhood scale, emphasizing the way in which good design can connect people and communities, contribute to economic, social and environmental resilience, and a create a strong sense of vibrancy and unique local identity. Over the course of his career, Andrei has designed individual buildings, parks, and public spaces, and produced neighborhood, downtown, and regional plans for a diverse range of clients. He currently directs the Yale Urban Design Workshop, which he joined in 2006, and teaches architecture and urban design courses at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut.

At the YUDW, Andrei leads the studio’s design efforts, directing the Workshop’s staff of student interns and graduate fellows. His has recently contributed to a major coastal resilience plan and two resilience pilot projects in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the Resilient Bridgeport project funded by HUD, a new waterfront masterplan for South Lindholmen, in Gothenburg, Sweden, a comprehensive sustainability plan for Fishers Island, New York, a plan for the Thames River Heritage Park between Groton and New London, CT, a master plan for the Fort Trumbull section of New London, CT, a waterfront plan for West Haven, CT, and design of a Montessori School in New Haven, CT.

In 2008, Andrei coordinated a major international design charrette with NGO Friends of the Earth Middle East, which brought together Jordanian, Israeli, Palestinian and American designers, engineers and students in Jordan, to develop a conceptual framework for a Peace Park on the Jordan River. Since the charrette, he has continued to provided design and implementation support for the park as parts of the plan have been advanced, including a virtual version of the JRPP in 2020. The charrette was the subject of a 2009 documentary film.

In 1998, Mr. Harwell began his career as an architect in the New York office of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, where he honed his skills working on large scale civic, cultural, and institutional projects, including New York’s Moynihan Station, Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theater, and 770 Broadway in Manhattan. He was an instrumental part of the team that designed and executed the award-wining adaptive re-use of St. Ann’s Church at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, NY, design of the Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn’s BAM cultural district, and LCT3 Theater, atop the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York. He maintains and independent practice as a consulting architect.

Mr. Harwell received his Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University in 1998, and his Master of Architecture (post-professional) from Yale University in 2006, where he was nominated for the Feldman Prize, the school’s top design honor. At Yale, he was the 2005 recipient of the Takenaka Internship, which allowed him to spend 3 months in Osaka, Japan researching issues in Japanese urbanism. He was also the 2006 Dean’s Scholar and the 2006 Ulli Scharnberg Scholar. He has written and lectured on First Wave Russian emigre settlements in the United States, and in 2006 received the John Coolidge Research Fellowship from the Society of Architectural Historians, Northeast Chapter, to support his research.

Mr. Harwell recently contributed to the forthcoming book Two Sides of the Border edited by Tatiana Bilbao and Nile Greenberg, and edited the books Urban Integration: Bishopsgate Goods Yard in 2010, and Rethinking Chongqing: Mixed-Use and Super- Dense, published in 2014. His research and design work has appeared in Architectural Record, Architect, Building Design, mu-dot, Constructs, Russian Life, The New York Times, Hartford Courant, New Haven Register, and has been exhibited in China, Ger- many, England, and the United States. 22 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING

Jessica Kooris Co-Founder

Jessica Kooris is the co-founder of Kooris Consulting, Inc and has over 12 years of experience working in real estate consulting and development, project management and owner's representation. As a project manager at Freeman/Frazier & Associates (FFA) and JS Freeman Associates (JSF), Ms. Kooris was involved in the preparation of the Economic Analysis Reports submitted to the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals (NYC BSA). At FFA/JSF, Ms. Kooris prepared over 200+ feasibility studies with a 100% success rate.

Ms. Kooris is Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and is passionate about process improvement and clear and open communication.

WORK EXPERIENCE 2017-Present: Co-Founder of Kooris Consulting, LLC – Providing real estate services, feasibility studies and market research for New York City BSA variances to clients, and other consultants. 2016-2017: Novitex Enterprise Solutions – Manager, Real Estate & Administration 2006-2016: Freeman/Frazier & Associates and J.S. Freeman Associates – Project Manager 2004-2006: Philadelphia City Planning Commission - Strategic Planning and Policy Intern

EDUCATION Master’s Degree in City Planning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2006 Bachelor of Science, Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2003

DESIGNATIONS / ACCREDITATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS Certified: Lean Six Sigma, Yellow Belt #19312797 Licensed: Former New York State Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Recipient: Ann Louise Strong Leadership Award Member: Gamma Theta Upsilon

PROFESSIONAL COURSE WORK Air Rights Transactions: Current Trends and Legal Concerns, 2016 REBNY Continuing Education: Fair Housing and Agency in New York REBNY Continuing Education: Foundations of Real Estate Finance REBNY Continuing Education: Determining Value of Commercial Properties Long Island University – Brooklyn: New York State, Licensed Real Estate Salesperson’s Course

REAL ESTATE CONSULTING CLIENTS Corvus Capital, Inc. Urban Cartographics, Inc. City Analytics, Inc. J.S. Freeman Associates, Inc. B.J.C Associates, Inc. Equity Valuations Associates, Inc. Vita Nuova, Inc. Capalino + Company Eric Palatnik, P.C. City of Rockford Artimus 62nd Street East Inc. Perlbinder Realty Bespoke Harlem West LLC ASPS Management Nord LLC U.S. EPA WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 23

David Kooris, AICP Co-Founder

David Kooris is the co-founder of Kooris Consulting, Inc., an accomplished public policy, regional planning, and economic development specialist focusing on public-private partnerships, intergovernmental coordination, climate action and resilience, neighborhood revitalization, brownfield redevelopment, transit-oriented development, and prioritized regional infrastructure investment strategies.

David Kooris is President of Stamford Downtown, a business improvement district representing the major property owners, companies, and residents of that neighborhood. There he manages a team responsible for maintaining and activating the public realm of the core of the city. Stamford Downtown produces concerts, parades, public art exhibits, and a multitude of smaller events and is responsible for cleaning and greening downtown’s streetscape.

Prior, Mr. Kooris was Deputy Commissioner at the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development. He was responsible for orchestrating the placed-based components of the state’s economic development strategy including transit- oriented development, brownfields, capital projects, waterfront, historic preservation, the arts, tourism, and opportunity zones. He focused there on coordinating public sector infrastructure investment to best prepare communities for private sector growth while enhancing environmental sustainability and quality of life for all.

David is formerly the Director of Rebuild by Design and National Disaster Resilience for the State of Connecticut Department of Housing. Totaling nearly $65 Million, these two Federal grants competitively awarded to the state will enable coastal resilience planning for Fairfield and New Haven Counties, and the construction of several pilot projects for green infrastructure, raised mobility corridors, distributed energy generation, and 21st century flood protection in Bridgeport.

Prior to joining the Department of Housing, Mr. Kooris was the Director of the Office of Planning and Economic Development and Executive Director of the Redevelopment Agency for the City of Bridgeport. There, he oversaw ten departments in the creation of the city’s revitalization strategy and it’s execution in tangible public and private investments.

Mr. Kooris is currently Chair of the Board of the Connecticut Port Authority, tasked by the Governor and the General Assembly.

WORK EXPERIENCE Stamford Downtown Special Services District, Stamford, CT President, January, 2020 to Present

Connecticut Port Authority, Old Saybrook, CT Board Chair, July, 2019 to Present

Yale University, New Haven, CT Lecturer, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, August, 2012 to Present

State of CT – Department of Economic & Community Development, Hartford, CT Deputy Commissioner, March, 2018 to January, 2020 Acting Commissioner, January, 2019 to February, 2019

State of Connecticut – Department of Housing, Hartford, CT Director of Resilience, April, 2016 to March, 2018

City of Bridgeport, Connecticut Director, Office of Planning and Economic Development, July, 2012 to April, 2016 Executive Director, Bridgeport Redevelopment Agency, September, 2012 to July, 2016

Regional Plan Association Stamford, CT and New York, NY Vice President, July, 2009 to June, 2012 Connecticut Director, July, 2007 to June, 2012 Senior Planner, January, 2006 to June, 2007 Associate Planner, July, 2005 to Jan, 2006 Project Experience

Planning a Resilient Riverfront Waggonner & Ball is leading the design and planning of the Ohio Creek Watershed, an ongoing effort in Norfolk, Virginia that reconnects people to water while creating projects that reduce flood risk and provide multiple benefits to the community.

26 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING Rebuild By Design Resilient Bridgeport Watershed-based planning sets a framework for urban resiliency in coastal Connecticut.

CLIENT LOCATION TYPE COMPLETION DATE US DEPT. OF HOUSING AND BRIDGEPORT, CT RESILIENCE PLANNING JUNE 2014 (COMPETITION) URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD), ONGOING (IMPLEMENTATION) STATE OF CONNECTICUT PROJECT AREA DEPT. OF HOUSING 19.4 SQ MI

In June 2013, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development launched Rebuild By Design (RBD) as an international competition to promote resilient planning and design in areas affected by Superstorm Sandy. Waggonner & Ball led a multidisciplinary team to design an innovative proposal focused on Bridgeport, Connecticut. The City of Bridgeport is the most densely populated, ethnically diverse, and socially vulnerable city in Connecticut; by 2100, over half of the city could suffer from chronic flooding.

The Resilient Bridgeport competition proposal lays out a comprehensive approach to creating a model for living and working along the coastline and waterways by addressing climate change and flooding caused by rainfall and storm surge. Using catalytic projects to create incremental change, the proposal integrates natural systems into climate conscious urban development. The team prioritized designs that restore the environment, strengthen connectivity, enhance the urban and regional economy, reduce long term risk, and stimulate downtown as a central part of the city’s identity.

Using implementation funding awarded through Rebuild by Design, the South End Stormwater Park and Johnson Street Extension will put to use the new guidelines for development, and integrate public space with stormwater management to leverage surrounding areas for development. Concurrently, Waggonner & Ball is developing Resilient Bridgeport vision a Coastal Defense System for the South End, a HUD National Disaster Resilience Competition-winning entry and a sister Team project to RBD. Working with a diverse team of community Competition: Waggonner & Ball, unAbridged Architecture, Arcadis, Gulf members, design professionals, and government officials, Coast Community Design Studio, Yale Urban Ecology and Design the project will reduce the risks of repetitive flood losses Workshop RBD: Waggonner & Ball, Arcadis, Yale Urban Design Workshop, Reed by acute coastal storms and heavy chronic rainfall events. Hilderbrand The project includes elevating streets, floodwalls integrated NDR: WSP, Waggonner & Ball, Arcadis, Yale Urban Design Workshop with parks and new development, and internal stormwater infrastructure improvements to protect existing assets, Client Reference improve mobility, and enhance quality of built and natural David Kooris Co-Founder Kooris Consulting spaces on the peninsula. Former Director, RBD and National Disaster Resilience for the State of Connecticut Department of Housing Awards 30 Chester Street • AIA Connecticut Excellence Award for Urban Design & Stamford, CT 06905 Planning, 2020 (203) 559-5391 • AIA New Orleans Honorable Mention 2016 [email protected] WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 27

Pilot stormwater park project in South End

South End: protecting the harbor and neighborhood

Restore the Edge Adapt to Rising Delay and Convey Access & Egress Make Energy Local Seas Stormwater

Resilient design strategies 28 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan A comprehensive plan to integrate stormwater flood mitigation, groundwater and subsidence management, and urban water value for recreation and real estate.

CLIENT LOCATION TYPE PLANNING BUDGET GREATER NEW ORLEANS, ST. BERNARD PARISH AND RESILIENCE PLANNING $2.5 MILLION INC. AND THE STATE OF THE EAST BANKS OF ORLEANS LOUISIANA OFFICE OF AND JEFFERSON PARISHES, COMPLETION DATE PROJECTED COST/BENEFIT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LA 2013 $6 BILLION/$22 BILLION

rain pumps The New Orleans region has been surrounded and defined rain by water since its founding over 300 years ago. Now partially pumps below sea level on the Mississippi River delta, the area is fortified by a perimeter levee protection system designed to levee groundwater pipes anals reduce risk from a 100-year storm event. Rainfall flooding, land subsidence, and lack of public accessibility and levee waterfront value remain critical challenges. groundwater pipes anals Pipe Pump Drain The Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan is a water-based rain landscape and urban design proposal that illustrates how pumps the region can live with water rather than fight against it. It employs a multi-layered, ground-up approach that is rain pumps science-based, place-based, and adaptable. The multi-scaled, actionable strategy, which spans four volumes and over levee twenty district and demonstration reports, leverages the groundwater region's water infrastructure to create a safer, more beautiful, Slow Store & Use levee Drain more valuable Water City. groundwater (when necessary) Paradigm shift: from piping & pumping to slowing, storing & reusing

Typical condition at lowland canals Proposed conditions at lowland canals

Awards American Planning Association Excellence Award for Environmental Planning Client Reference AIA New Orleans Honor Award Robin Barnes AIA Louisiana Merit Award Founding Principal, Resilience Resolutions American Planning Association Louisiana Chapter Excellence Award Former Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, for a Plan Greater New Orleans, Inc. National Association of Development Organizations Innovation Award [email protected] WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 29

Regional water system

Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan Vision document

Rendering of water storage potential along Lafitte Greenway 30 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING Hampton Roads Resilience Planning Resilience planning and adaptive design for neighboring cities in coastal Virginia that are at risk for flooding from rising seas.

CLIENTS TYPE COMPLETION DATE CITY OF HAMPTON HAMPTON ROADS PLANNING RESILIENCE PLANNING 2015 - PRESENT CITY OF NORFOLK DISTRICT COMMISSION URBAN DESIGN CITY OF PORTSMOUTH US DEPT. OF HOUSING AND ARCHITECTURE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD)

Waggonner & Ball has collaborated with multiple cities in the Hampton Roads region of coastal Virginia, as well as with state government, on resilience planning and design projects with a long term vision for the future. Hampton Roads is defined by rivers and inlets that flow into the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, and is increasingly at risk for flooding from rising seas and a changing climate. The firm’s expertise in developing water management principles for the New Orleans region after Hurricane Katrina led to invitations to work on a range of resilient design projects with the Commonwealth of Virginia as well as three municipalities: Norfolk, Hampton, and Portsmouth.

Dutch Dialogues Virginia: Life at Sea Level Building upon a series of multidisciplinary workshops that prioritize resilient design strategies, Waggonner & Ball OhioRendering Creek Watershed of ProjectNewmarket Drone Photos Creek in Hampton, with a vision for water and collaborators from the Netherlands brought the same storage and public amenity10/9/2020 approach to Hampton Roads for Dutch Dialogues Virginia: Life at Sea Level. In 2015, the City of Hampton, the City of Norfolk, the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission, and other partners brought the Dutch Dialogues approach to Hampton Roads. Examining bay, harbor, river, and inland stream conditions, the workshops sought opportunities that increase value and safety at multiple scales: region, city, and neighborhood.

National Disaster Resilience Competition Waggonner & Ball helped develop the design proposal for the Commonwealth of Virginia's submission to the National Disaster Resilience Competition, focusing on an urban coastal neighborhood in Norfolk. The project was awarded $120 million in funding, and is being implemented in the NDR: Ohio Creek Watershed effort. The project is in the Chesterfield Living shoreline under construction in the Ohio Creek watershed Heights neighborhood, a low-lying, historic area with public housing. Reach C

Resilient Hampton In Hampton, the firm is working with the City on a multi- Client Reference Client Reference phase effort on citywide planning and urban design, called Kyle Spencer Terry O’Neill Resilient Hampton. A framework of principles, goals, and Deputy Chief Resiliency Officer Director of Community values developed from place-driven analysis, including City of Norfolk Development (757) 441-2602 City of Hampton public workshops and community meetings. Summaries of [email protected] (757) 727.6140 areas that share common water conditions will guide future [email protected] WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 31 projects, and an evaluation tool will assist with prioritizing implementation of resilience efforts. The design of pilot projects on publicly controlled land that manage stormwater and yield multiple benefits is currently underway.

Hampton-Langley Joint Land Use Study Addendum The Joint Land Use Study (JLUS) Addendum analyzes existing spatial conditions on the military base and in the surrounding context of Hampton, to understand potential vulnerabilities to different threats. Waggonner & Ball worked with the City of Hampton and Joint Base Langley-Eustis Langley, as well as Arcadis. The report examines the forces of water, natural systems and environment, character and place, critical facilities and mission readiness inside the base, boundaries, Perspective of pilot projects for Resilient Hampton and access and transportation. It is among the first of its kind in the country.

NDR: Ohio Creek Watershed Plan Funded as part of the HUD-initiated National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC), the Ohio Creek Watershed project aims to reduce risk from nuisance flooding and coastal inundation for two historic neighborhoods along the JOINT LAND USE STUDY ADDENDUM 81 Elizabeth River in Norfolk. The project is organized into three major strategies: coastal defense, Living With Water™, and connectivity with amenities. Together, the proposed suite of Section perspective of a Resilient Hampton pilot project strategies - from green infrastructure to engineered protection to urban design - demonstrate systems and methods that can be expanded across Norfolk, the Hampton Roads region, and the East Coast. Victory Rd Wythe Rd Creek Portsmouth Resilience Design Services

In neighboring Portsmouth, Waggonner & Ball is part of a JBLE-Langley team that was selected to provide resilience planning and Cmdr. Shepard Blvd design services for the City. Clear Zone Accident Potential Zone I Big Bethel Rd Accident Potential I-64 Zone II

LaSalle Ave N. King St Magruder Blvd New Roadway New Entry Gate Butler Farms Rd N. Armistead Ave Entry Gate FEMA 100-Year Floodplain Map of flooding and entries for the Hampton-Langley JLUS Addendum

Ballentine Underpass Widening and Improvements JBLE-Langley Ballentine Intersection and Sidewalk ImprovementsCmdr. Shepard Blvd Haynes Creek Stormwater Park Improved Subsurface Grandy Village Drainage Network Stormwater Park Pump Station

Interactive/Educational Playground

Big Bethel Rd Multi-Use Playing Field Fitness Trail with Exercise Stations Raise Kimball Terrace to 8’ I-64 Magruder Blvd Elevation for Access & Egress

N. ArmisteadN. Ave Butler Farms Rd

Hardcourt / Basketball Relocated Entry Road Tide Control Gate Dedicated Bike/Ped Lane Open Tidal Exchange Integrated Coastal Flood Protection Urban Bioswales, Corner Basins and Pervious Paving Ballentine Stormwater Tide Control Tide Control Pump Garden Pump House Station with Educational Components Subsurface Permeable Parking Lot/ Wetland Trail / Road Cisterns Living Shoreline Plaza with Subsurface Boardwalk Storage Existing Grandy Village Detention Pond Public Pier

Proposed range of projects for NDR: Ohio Creek Watershed 32 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING Lockwood South Development A resilient residential development along Buffalo Bayou integrated with site, nature and public transportation.

CLIENT LOCATION COMPLETION DATE FUNDING BRINSHORE DEVELOPMENT HOUSTON, TX ONGOING TX DEPT OF HOUSING / (MASTER PLAN & PHASE 1 COMMUNITY AFFAIRS 2020 LAND OWNER BUDGET DESIGN) COMPETITIVE (9%) HOUSING BUFFALO BAYOU PARTNERSHIP +$20 MILLION (ALL PHASES) TAX CREDIT (HTC)

Waggonner & Ball is providing site concept design and acting as liaison between landowner and client for an 18 acre, 300 unit mixed income housing development on Buffalo Bayou trail.

Resilience principles shape the design approach, from living with water to native landscape design to capturing natural and economic value from the site’s connection to water. The site design takes primary advantage of the bayou with green corridors linking the surrounding street grid to water's edge. Buffalo Bayou park network weaves through the site along constructed creeks and stormwater channels, providing visual and physical access to nature for every building. Structures are arranged for optimal solar orientation, and strategic shading is accomplished through building scale and landscape elements.

Site design also takes advantage of adjacency to the key Lockwood Drive corridor with access to future bus rapid transit lines that further expand Second Ward rail network connections. An adjacent historic Harris County art deco building is integrated into a future phase of the site. The project includes multifamily, senior housing, town houses and single family unit types that leverage disaster recovery and tax credit financing from the State of Texas.

Client Reference Anne Olson President, Buffalo Bayou Partnership (713) 752-0314 ext 102 [email protected] 2

Site analysis: surface elevation/floodplain and urban connectivity

Phase 1 residential concept: every unit has a view WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 33

Aerial view of Buffalo Bayou towards downtown Houston 34 MIDDLETOWN RIVERFRONT PLANNING Rebuild by Design Competition Thames River Projects Resilient Bridgeport Two connected projects in the Thames River Estuary which redefine New London and Groton's relationship to their shared public space: the Thames River.

CLIENT LOCATION TYPE COMPLETION DATE CITY OF NEW LONDON GROTON AND NEW LONDON, MASTER PLANNING THAMES RIVER HERITAGE AVERY COPP HOUSE CONNECTICUT HERITAGE PLANNING PARK, 2015 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FORT TRUMBULL PLAN, 2011

The Thames River Heritage Park Plan, developed by the Yale Urban Design Workshop in 2015 with the support of the Avery Copp House in Groton, CT, presents a new, innovative, streamlined strategy to establish Connecticut’s first state heritage park. Now a reality, the park was first envisioned by planners more than 50 years ago to celebrate the rich historical and contemporary engagement between Groton, New London and the Thames River.

Unlike a conventional state park, the Thames River Heritage Park ties together independent heritage institutions, existing state parks, historic districts, local businesses and educational partners. Minimal new physical infrastructure, including signage and graphics, along with a water taxi system now in its fourth year of operation, connect sites and define the park as a unified experience. Through its management structure, the park provides a platform for collaborative programming, events and coordinated schedules, while information and interpretation for visitors and locals will be provided online.

The Thames River Heritage Park is contributing to making the Thames region as a whole greater than the sum of its individual parts. While enriching each local partner by making it part of a larger network, the park is helping to define the region’s cultural identity, encourage sustainable tourism, and with minimal investment produce a substantial regional economic impact.

Awards APA Connecticut Implementation Award 2016 WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 35

In 2010, the Yale Urban Design Workshop was commissioned by the New London City Council to develop a new plan for the Fort Trumbull section of the City. Fort Trumbull, subject of the controversial 2005 Kelo v. New London Supreme Court ruling concerning eminent domain, remains contested ground in the community. Land taken by eminent domain from individual homeowners still stands vacant today due to challenging development markets.

Moving beyond the controversy, the Vision proposes a framework within which the development of the site can be restarted. Based on the results of a year-long collaborative planning process which included the City of New London, the New London Development Corporation and a diverse group of New London citizens and stakeholders, the project proposes a shared vision of Fort Trumbull that will help the community move ahead through a constructive dialogue about the direction and actual shape of future development on the site.

Recommendations of the Vision include creating new connections to downtown and reinforcing existing ones, emphasizing the street-based pedestrian realm through street-oriented buildings and mid-block, screened parking, and centering development around a system of water related anchors and fabric. Anchors include the existing Fort Trumbull State Park, a New England-style waterfront hotel and a Coast Guard museum (the Coast Guard originated at Fort Trumbull), filled in by commercial and residential fabric.

Client References Adam Sprecache, Former Deputy Mayor City of New London (203) 460-4967

Marian Galbraith Former Mayor, City of Groton, CT and President, Thames River Heritage Park Foundation (860) 446-4103 [email protected] Required Documentation

Waterfronts for People Creating publicly accessible edges at the water directly connects the community to natural systems and urban context, reinforcing a sense of place and unique character. Credit: Cameron Blaylock

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CITY OF MIDDLETOWN

ADDENDUM #1 RFP #2020-019 REVISED COMPREHENSIVE MASTER AND REAL ESTATE/ZONING DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE CITY OF MIDDLETOWN’S RIVERFRONT

Date Issued: October 15, 2020

ALL BIDDERS ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AND/OR MODIFICATIONS TO THE CONTRACT BID DOCUMENTS:

The following questions were submitted, therefore, a “Revised RFP” inclusive of clarifications is available and can be located on our website at www.middletownct.gov.

 The intro paragraph under “Submission requirements” refers to the City selecting a preferred “developer;” however, the remainder of the RFQ refers to selecting a “consultant” to develop a master plan and regulatory framework. Can you please clarify whether the City intends to identify a developer for the site through this submission?

 Should proposals be led by developers or planning consultants?

INVITATION TO BID The date set for the receipt of proposals will remain the same. *** Friday, November 20, 2020 by 3:00 P.M.

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Failure to acknowledge receipt of this addendum by the bidder may result in the rejection of their bid. Bidders are directed to review changes to all portions of the work as changes to one portion may affect the work of another. Total Addendum: this cover page along with a “Revised RFP” which is available and located on our website www.middletownct.gov WAGGONNER & BALL / YUDW / KOORIS CONSULTING 39

CITY OF MIDDLETOWN

ADDENDUM #2 RFP #2020-019 COMPREHENSIVE MASTER AND REAL ESTATE/ZONING DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE CITY OF MIDDLETOWN’S RIVERFRONT

Date Issued: November 3, 2020

ALL BIDDERS ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AND/OR MODIFICATIONS TO THE CONTRACT BID DOCUMENTS:

Responses to questions submitted in writing by the deadline date of Friday, October 30. 2020 at noon.

INVITATION TO BID The date set for the receipt of proposals will remain the same. *** Friday, November 20, 2020 by 3:00 P.M.

PLEASE VERIFY THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS NOTIFICATION IN THE SPACE BELOW AND FAX OR EMAIL THIS PAGE BACK TO THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT.

FAX: 860-638-1995 EMAIL: [email protected]

BIDDER ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF ADDENDUM #2: ______Waggonner & Ball COMPANY NAME All bidders are hereby advised of the following amendments to the contract bid documents which are hereby made an integral part of the specifications for the subject project, prepared by the City of Middletown to the same extent as all other documents. All work shall conform to the standards and provisions of same. Bids submitted shall be deemed to include contract document information as shown in Addendum No. 2. General bidders shall notify sub-bidders that may be affected by this addendum as applicable.

If you have already submitted a bid you shall be required to acknowledge receipt of this This acknowledgment must be received by the time and date specified to be accepted by the City.

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