Urban Collage is proud to announce that the “I-75/85 Connector Transformation” plan is the recipient of this year’s American Society of Landscape Architects’ (ASLA) Award of Excellence (Texas Chapter).  The Connector Transformation plan is a groundbreaking and visionary effort to re-imagine Atlanta’s downtown interstate connector. What is currently an unattractive, uninspired transportation workhorse for hundreds of thousands of commuters and visitors each day is re-envisioned as an exciting visual ‘gateway’ and ‘front door’ for downtown including new public art, decorative lighting and an urban forest.

Urban Collage helped conceive the project and managed a talented team of consultants on behalf of Central Atlanta Progress (CAP) and the Midtown Alliance. The lead consultant for the plan was the SWA Group out of Houston, Texas.

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Over the last year, 47 community leaders, as part of Mayor Jim Gray’s Arena, Arts & Entertainment District Task Force, studied and discussed a potential arts and entertainment district in Downtown Lexington that would be anchored by historic Rupp Arena and the Lexington Convention Center.  The effort documented existing conditions and defined potential community “needs” in the areas of Sports & Entertainment, Hospitality, Housing & Mixed Use and Arts & Culture. Assisted by some of the most talented professionals across the globe and locally, the resultant design studies and overall development plan for the Rupp Arena, Arts & Entertainment District lay out a visionary and catalytic blueprint for developing over 46 acres of publicly-owned lands around the Lexington Center.  Urban Collage served as the Project Manager and staff support for this comprehensive effort, which Governor Steve Beshear has called one of the most important economic development initiatives in Kentucky. More information can be found at www.ruppdistrict.com