St. Peter's Health’s Post

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Late last month, the Morristown Zoning Board unanimously approved a back-of-house expansion to the 87-year-old Mayo Performing Arts Center in the Town of Morristown. 🎭 The plan calls for a 31,000 SF five-story addition and a bi-level parking garage. While the historic façade along South Street will be unchanged, #MPAC will now extend from South Street to King Place. We also want to note that most of the back-of-house addition will be dedicated to their #artseducation program, currently located in the buildings being replaced by the expansion. So not only will this expansion add to #Morristown’s historic charm and contribute to its economic vitality, but will also inspire local artists of the future. 🎨👨🎨 Cultural institutions like #MayoPAC are a vital economic engine for downtowns across the State, and particularly in Morristown, not only driving foot traffic to surrounding businesses, but driving the community's economic health. 🛍 In their most recent annual report, the Center stated that the nonprofit arts center generated more than $15 million in revenue for local businesses in the 2022/23 season. 💰 That's no chump change. Read more and view more renderings here: https://lnkd.in/etH5ndPy 📷 Rendering courtesy of FJ Rawding Architects #MorristownNJ #localarts #njarts #njperformingarts #adaptiveruse #njdevelopment #njplanners #njplanningfirm

Starting to take shape on site. This is a fully integrated BIM project.

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The Wall Street Journal on ADUs: There are many practical reasons why a homeowner might want to build an accessory dwelling: to house aging parents or adult offspring, or as an income-generating rental property. But some are designing them just for themselves. https://lnkd.in/gqsrGdUu? #adu #adus #construction #realestate #housing #housingmarket

This was very, very special. Not just a brick Victorian duplex, this was the building that the notorious Anna Wilson left to the city. Once a Brothel, then a hospital not the entrance to the freeway. You are going to want to learn more about this one. Check it out on timstown.com #vintagerealestate #propertytransformation #retrorealestate #timelessproperties #beforeandafter #midtown #propertyevolution #classicrealestate #legacyproperties

Can BRT on a suburban corridor trigger healthier and more sustainable redevelopment? This retrofit shows how - and new mixed-use projects are continuing since we wrote this chapter.

What to do with declining, vacant, and underutilized historic church buildings is an issue that many communities across the country are facing. For congregations with dwindling membership, the wall of maintenance costs is often insurmountable. Constructed in 1913, the historic St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church and its members were faced with this dilemma in the early 2000s. As a center of Tampa's Civil Rights Movement, St. Paul played host to numerous dignitaries, including Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but the building was suffering from years of deferred maintenance. From the sale of the church in 2011, the congregation was able to move across town to a newer, smaller, and more affordable space, however, ensuring that the building's future use would preserve the building's character and legacy was vital. Ensuring this goal, Sage Partners, LLC was able to transform the historic sacred space into a Life Center, complete with an indoor play area, computer lab, and event space, while constructing an adjoining 120-unit affordable housing community. In the end, the congregation was sustained, the building's integrity and legacy were preserved, and a community need for affordable housing was met. Talk about a win-win-win! For more stories on adaptive reuse projects of historic church spaces, resources, and best practices, check out Partners for Sacred Places at sacredplaces.org.

The FIRST post in my "32 days of Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia" project, undertaken in the weeks leading up to my keynote in March at ULI Australia's National Conference: Case Study II.1: Aurora Avenue North, Shoreline, WA, USA One tactic towards improving public health is to prevent injuries in the first place, through design. Before retrofitting, the Aurora Avenue North corridor, north of Seattle, was a typical suburban arterial road, a classic “auto mile,” of car dealerships and box stores, dangerous to pedestrians. New crosswalks, sidewalks, greened medians, enhanced lighting, and bus rapid transit in dedicated lanes dramatically improved the corridor’s safety and performance. As the ULI’s 2016 report “Building Healthy Corridors: Transforming Urban and Suburban Arterials into Thriving Places” reminds us, 40% of children in the US walked to school in 1969, and only 13% did in 2009. Similarly, 9.9% of commuters walked to work in 1960 and only 2.8% did so in 2013. If we want to reduce car dependence and increase levels of walking, we must retrofit more streets for safety. Image: The Shoreline Interurban Trail Bridge, by CH2MHill Engineers, Clinkston Brunner Architects and Hough Beck Baird Inc., featuring public artwork by Vicki Scuri SiteWorks. #RetrofittingSuburbia #urbandesign #urbandevelopment #DisruptAutomobileDependence #ImprovePublicHealth ULI Australia Suburban Futures Ellen Dunham-Jones Mike Day of Hatch