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Since our founding in 1964, our focus has been bringing to life catalytic neighborhood and downtown interventions that are essential to successful urban regeneration. Our strategies and techniques use development to drive interest and economic activity into sometimes forgotten parts of towns and cities.

Making Urban Catalysts is not easy. However, with UDA's experience, regionally-sensitive approach and collaborative design process with great partners, we have found success in such efforts. The stories that follow are some of the most influential examples of this work.

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B R O A D W AY O V E R L O O K B A LT I M O R E | M A R Y L A N D

Redevelopment made possible the replacement of a distressed and isolated public housing project with a residential development that is seamlessly integrated into the historic Washington Hill neighborhood. The development has leveraged almost one billion dollars of new development in the east side of Baltimore.

• 7 acres

• 166 Residential Units

• Community center and daycare

T I D E W AT E R C O M M U N I T Y C O L L E G E N O R F O L K | V I R G I N I A

The City of Norfolk engaged UDA for site planning and architectural services for a new downtown campus for the college. The activities of the campus revitalized historic Granby Street and solidified Norfolk as a social, cultural, and economic center of the region.

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• 1.3 acres

• 120,000 square feet of classroom space

• .3-acre campus green

S L O V E R L I B R A R Y N O R F O L K | V I R G I N I A

UDA teamed with the the City of Norfolk and Newman Architects to create a new library to anchor the downtown revitalization. The library was positioned not as a repository for books, but a true center of community life and programming.

• .35 acres

• 60,000 sf addition to a fully renovated public library building.

• Under Construction

The City of Norfolk hired UDA to prepare a master plan and urban design guidelines for The Freemason District. The effort centered around rebuilding a severed street connection that unleashed the potential of four urban development sites.

• 4 Blocks

• 200 residential units

F R E E M A S O N D I S T R I C T N O R F O L K | V I R G I N I A

P E N I N S U L A T O W N C E N T E R H A M P T O N | V I R G I N I A

Malls in first and second urban growth rings have reached the end of their design life and are being repositioned as walkable, mixed-use places. Peninsula Town Center upgraded existing anchors and replaced inline tenants and residential uses along new commercial streets.

• 70 acres

• 160 residential units

• 1 million square feet of retail and office space

S E G O T O W N H O U S E S AT D AY B R E A K S O U T H J O R D A N | U TA H

UDA provided site planning and architecture to take take a leftover, underutilized site and create a "pocket" neighborhood. The site sits adjacent to the Rio Tinto office building and parking garage, which anchors the town center.

• .9 acres

• 16 units (Phase 1)

W H E E L I N G H E I G H T S W H E E L I N G | W E S T V I R G I N I A

Through a HOPE VI redevelopment effort, UDA worked to create a mixed-income housing project to revitalize the inner city of Wheeling. It was the first new housing built in the city in over 40 years.

• 240 Units

• Mix of rental & ownership

K AY ' S L A N D I N G K A Y S V I L L E | U TA H

UDA provided site planning and architecture to take an abandoned hotel site and create a pocket neighborhood. The site is located two blocks from the historic downtown.

• 2 acres

• 34 units

G I L R O Y C A N N E R Y G I L R O Y | C A L I F O R N I A

The South County Housing Authority engaged UDA to redevelop a historic cannery site in downtown Gilroy. The design created on-site mix of uses and housing choices in a regionally specific design.

• 12 acres

• 206 units

UDA worked with the Better Housing Coalition to engage the neighborhood and the city administration in a public process to set the strategy, acquire key properties and receive development approvals for new infill buildings and street improvements. One block of infill development as been completed.

C A R Y 2 0 0 0 R I C H M O N D | V I R G I N I A

B E C K S T O F F E R S R I C H M O N D | V I R G I N I A

The Better Housing Coalition is redeveloping a key downtown site, repurposing an abandoned factory into a potential mixed-use catalyst that bridges two neighborhoods. Strategic infill sites are designed to augment the inherited structure.

• Adaptive reuse of historic millwork structure into 22 live/work loft apartments

• 8 new townhouses; 7 new loft apartments; 32-unit apartment building for senior housing

In 1993, the Better Housing Coalition initiated the East End Transformation Program, a comprehensive urban revitalization plan that includes both affordable rental apartments and home ownership opportunities.

• One block of urban infill

• 14 rental and 15 owner-occupied residential units

J E F F E R S O N M E W S R I C H M O N D | V I R G I N I A

UDA prepared a vision for a mixed-use infill development located in the heart of Pittsburgh’s East End, within a mile of several campuses, large medical health complexes, and revitalized city neighborhoods.

• 263 Housing Units

• 80,000 square feet of retail and office

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W YA N D A N C H B A B Y L O N | N E W Y O R K

Babylon, New York, is committed to repositioning lands surrounding Long Island Rail Road stations into transit-oriented development (TOD) sites. The earliest of these is the Wyandanch effort that transitions industrial and parking lot uses into a mixed-use neighborhood center.

• 8.8 acres

• 137 Residential Units

• 12,500 square feet of retail and office

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