Sustainable City Year Reports 2011-12 (Springfield)

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    Booth-Kelly Mixed-Use District
    (University of Oregon, 2012) Pecenka, Jennifer; Muller, Brook; Asnis, Marc; Beamer, Mike; Biniaris, Aliki; Bonnett, Erik; Bryant, Hannah; Cavin, Laura; Cohen, Daniele; Day, Emi; Ferrell, Heather; Gibbons, Shane; Hybel, Kimberly; Kelsey, Kristin; Rosenthal, Alex; Skoog, Courtney; Young, Kevin
    Graduate and undergraduate architecture students in Professor Brook Muller’s terminal studio during winter and spring terms of 2012 examined potential redevelopment scenarios for the Booth-Kelly site, located in downtown Springfield. The city anticipated redevelopment concepts and guidelines developed as part of the studio could potentially be adopted into the Downtown Refinement Plan and implemented in the future. Students identified several programmatic schemes that describe how the site could become a destination location with a pedestrian-friendly appeal. Seen as a collision of industry and nature, sharing multiple habitats and crossing paths, the site’s industrial beauty and rich history are ideal for unique design solutions that exemplify these characteristics. An in-depth focus on its ecology led many students to incorporate much of the surrounding context in a systems thinking approach. Many of the designs seek to interconnect various processes, from both onsite and offsite byproducts and resources, and to bridge natural and urban resource flows. Common themes emerged with different programmatic emphases, including: adaptive reuse, agricultural production and distribution, community education, linking downtown to industry, and adaptable piecemeal development. While each project holds a different focus, the studio collectively promoted many of the same design values.
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    Waremart Site Redevelopment Concept Plan
    (University of Oregon, 2011) Bates, Kai; McPadden, Raymond; Morley, Kimberly; Rafuse, Stephen; Margerum, Richard; Parker, Robert; Young, Robert F.
    With an overall goal of facilitating the revitalization of the Mohawk District, this concept plan provides goals and strategies for the redevelopment of the Mohawk District. By evaluating existing conditions within the Mohawk District, six student teams developed a neighborhood profile including demographic and economic conditions and trends, land-use and area infrastructure, and neighborhood amenities. This profile informed the student groups of opportunities and constraints for redevelopment of the Waremart Site and the District as a whole. From this profile, teams developed concepts for redevelopment of the Waremart Site based around three themes: affordable/mixed-income housing, medical-related, and light-industrial. In addition, teams developed concepts for improvements within the larger Mohawk District to support the overall goals of nodal development. This concept plan synthesizes goals identified by the six student teams into key goals for the Waremart Site and the Mohawk District. Some of these goals are complementary, and some indicate different directions goals could take.