Wolf River Greenway: Project Update

May 22, 2017

By Daniel Ashworth, Design Associate, Alta Planning + Design The current Wolf River Greenway project will provide an additional 21 miles of trail in Memphis, Tennessee. It will connect the existing greenway, which ends at Walnut Grove Road, to the Mud Island Greenbelt Park. The client for the project is the Wolf River Conservancy, and […]

The Land of Oz: Design-Build and They Will Come

April 4, 2017

The Railyard is a multi-skill level skills course in downtown Rogers, AR. The course uses an old railroad cart as a technical feature and features one of the largest jumps west of the Mississippi River. By Kent Laughlin, Designer, Alta Planning + Design It’s not often a two-county region sets out to blaze hundreds of […]

Equitable Transportation in a Booming Small Town

March 23, 2017

Can a city leverage its bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure to balance long-standing social equity issues with economic and tourism development goals? The Alta Greenville office is currently working with the City of Hardeeville, South Carolina, on a bike and pedestrian trails master plan to help address this complex question. Hardeeville, which is located at the […]

Planning + Design Durham, NC, Style

March 21, 2017

If you visit downtown Durham, you will hear the sounds of a booming place, with high-rises under construction and the occasional train that continues through to Raleigh or Charlotte. In the summer, you will hear the cheer of the Durham Bulls crowd. Walk into the 110-year old building at E. Chapel Hill Street and you […]

From Small Town to “Trail Town”

What makes a community a great place? The ingredients of placemaking include branding, signage, and environmental graphics that complement and reinforce the efforts of planners, engineers, and landscape architects to create great streets, trails, neighborhoods, and districts. The city of Travelers Rest, South Carolina, population 4,600, is an example of small town placemaking done well. […]

The Impact of Scale on Community Planning

March 17, 2017

From Regional Vision to Downtown Design The Alta Greenville office is currently working on two very different projects in the City of Moncks Corner, South Carolina; these projects will explore community issues, opportunities, and solutions through two very different planning “lenses.” One project will cast a vision for biking and walking in a large region that […]

Mr. Engineer Goes To Washington

By John Catoe, PE, LEED AP, Engineer, Alta Planning + Design What’s the best way to stress the importance of what you do to your elected officials? I was presented with a unique opportunity to travel to Washington, DC, and discuss infrastructure with our federal elected leaders and representatives via the American Society of Civil […]

Changing the Landscape of School Siting Practices

By Heather Seagle, Planner, Alta Planning + Design We are wrapping up the third year of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded Safe Routes to School (SRTS) project in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Our team has developed SRTS action plans for 11 schools in the county, and in this last year of […]

Data-Informed Planning in California

March 14, 2017

Alta recently completed a draft of California’s first statewide bicycle and pedestrian plan. This document provides strategies and actions to support bicycling and walking, with major themes throughout of improving active transportation data collection and data systems for the state. In support of this guidance, we developed a baseline data collection methodology for the state, […]

Giving Back: Bike Fix-up Day

March 13, 2017

By Jimmy Shoemaker, Planner, Alta Planning + Design Earlier last fall, while Colin Harris and I were at Farnsworth Aerospace, a middle school on the east side of St. Paul, as part of the Minnesota Statewide Safe Routes to School planning assistance project, one of the teachers showed me a fleet of 29 bicycles in […]

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