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Choice Properties REIT

Urban Strategies has been retained by Choice Properties REIT to provide ongoing planning services to advance several major development applications for a series of strategically important sites within the City of Toronto, including 1880 Eglinton Avenue East and 2280 Dundas St. W. On their own, each of these projects will...

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St Albert Downtown Area Redevelopment Plan

St. Albert is a rapidly growing city on the northwestern edge of the Edmonton city region. Its downtown has begun to attract new residents and businesses to the heart of the city, but St. Albert lacked a clear urban design and planning direction to overcome the emerging conflicts between land...

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Belfast City Centre Regeneration Strategy and Investment Plan

The Belfast City Centre Regeneration Strategy and Investment Plan provides a framework for change at a critical time for Belfast. In April 2015 Belfast City Council assumed new responsibilities including community planning as part of the ongoing reform of local government in Northern Ireland. At the same time new opportunities...

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Midland Downtown Master Plan

Midland is a town with many strengths, including a rich history, a robust culture, a well-defined historical main street, recreational amenities, a strong employment base and an idyllic setting on Georgian Bay. With so many natural and community assets, residents of Midland enjoy a high quality of life. Significant investments...

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A Citizen’s Guide to Density

The density targets for Urban Growth Centres and Designated Greenfield Areas set out in Ontario’s Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, are intended to help shape dense and transit-supportive complete communities. In practice though, this concept has shown to be difficult to conceptualize. Noticing this problem in our planning practice has led us...

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City of Hamilton

In the late 1990s, Urban Strategies was retained by the City to prepare a Downtown Economic and Urban Design Strategy. We recognized immediately that Hamilton was rich in assets, including historic buildings, museums, restaurants, sports venues and an accessible waterfront. These became the foundation for a Downtown Strategy, followed by...

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Downtown Detroit

Downtown Detroit Reinvestment Strategy (1996 - 1999) Urban Strategies helped guide downtown Detroit’s physical regeneration after 30 years of decline. In 1996 we were retained by the Greater Downtown Partnership, a public/private corporation created by the Mayor, to lead a consulting team charged with preparing a Reinvestment Strategy for the...

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Brantford Downtown Vision and Masterplan

Brantford Downtown Vision and Masterplan (2006 - 2008) Urban Strategies was appointed to lead a Community Visioning exercise to establish a master plan for how this mid-sized city’s downtown should evolve and continue to build on recent investments. The study provided the necessary tools, such as design guidelines, regulatory changes,...

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St. Louis Gateway Mall Park Plan

Urban Strategies was retained to create a transformational plan for downtown St. Louis’ principal open space, the two-kilometre long Gateway Mall. Largely rundown and underused, the Mall was not contributing to the positive changes being experienced in the rejuvenation of downtown St. Louis. The team, led by Urban Strategies and in collaboration...

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Niagara-on-the-Lake Old Town Vision & Dock Area Secondary Plan

Urban Strategies prepared a Vision document for Old Town, the historic core of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Old Town has a unique character, image and sense of place, but as a small town that attracts some three million visitors annually, it is also subject to an array of complex challenges. Following the Old...

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PATH Master Plan Study

Urban Strategies was retained by the City of Toronto to develop a Master Plan for the PATH system, to strengthen the vital role it plays in our downtown core’s well-being, The PATH Master Plan, supported by comprehensive, user-friendly guidelines, provided a broadly endorsed framework for its strategic growth and retrofit,...

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Downtown Sudbury Master Plan

Few cities in Canada have undergone the transformations that the City of Greater Sudbury has from its modest beginnings as a lumber town to a world-recognized leader in mining innovation and a growing regional capital for northern Ontario. For the City’s next chapter, Urban Strategies was retained to prepare a...

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Oakville Downtown Cultural Hub

Urban Strategies is currently working with the Town of Oakville on the creation of a Downtown Cultural Hub (DCH). Oakville’s Cultural Plan (2009), along with the Downtown Strategic Action Plan (2010), describe the downtown as a cultural hub with Centennial Square representing a core piece of the hub. However, many...

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Infrastructure Ontario Vendor of Record

Infrastructure Ontario (IO) is the provincial agency charged with managing Ontario’s real estate assets. In 2011 Urban Strategies was selected as IO’s Land Use Planning Vendor of Record for the Toronto area. Since that time we have been engaged by IO on numerous assignments ranging from site analyses, optimal use reports, due diligence reviews,...

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Liverpool Strategic Framework Investment

Urban Strategies were part of a multi-disciplinary team preparing a strategic investment framework (SIF) for the city centre of Liverpool. One of the UK’s most distinctive cities, Liverpool has been facing the challenge of re-inventing itself to respond to a very different future from that of the traditional port city....

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Downtown Pickering Intensification Study

Urban Strategies was retained by the City of Pickering to undertake what was first referred to as the Downtown Pickering Intensification Study in January 2011. Over the course of a two year study period, the project team engaged stakeholders and the general public to develop a framework for intensification, investment...

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Orillia Downtown & Waterfront Revitalization Plan

Historic Orillia, a city of 32,000 located 130 kilometres north of Toronto, has remarkable natural and cultural assets. It is surrounded by lakes and home to numerous festivals and landmark buildings. Despite its riches, however, the core of the city is not as attractive and vibrant as it should be....

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Exhibition Place Festival Plaza & Strategic Plan

As part of the Strategic Plan for 2009-2012, the Exhibition Place Board of Governors established a goal of developing a master plan for Festival Plaza as part of a broader desire to, “enhance our public assets by addressing infrastructure deficits.” The master plan is intended to present a vision and...

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Toronto Tall Buildings

Urban Strategies led a multi-disciplinary team in developing a strong, detailed, defensible, and comprehensive set of performance standards for tall buildings in Toronto’s downtown core. The final report identifies appropriate locations and heights for tall buildings and set out regulations for how they should be designed in order to relate...

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City of Ottawa

Urban Strategies has been involved in numerous projects that are helping reshape our nation’s capital. We have undertaken assignments for the Federal Government of Canada, the National Capital Commission, The University of Ottawa and the City of Ottawa. We are the authors of the Downtown Urban Design Strategy, The Escarpment...