Meeting Feb 21, 7PM

Tonight we will be looking at this document:
Building Healthy Corridors

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ArtWorks - Transforming Our City - 2014

How Façade Improvement Programs Can Benefit Your Community

Façade improvement programs are incentive programs created to encourage property owners and businesses to improve the exterior appearance of their buildings and storefronts. They focus on either commercial or residential properties in historic or non-historic areas and provide financial incentives such as a matching grant or loan, a tax incentive, and design assistance.
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Case study: Landscape transforms business corridor

King of Prussia (KOP) Business Improvement District (BID) hired Ground Reconsidered to design the new linear park along First Avenue, transforming underutilized lawn areas in front of office buildings into a cohesive, continuous, active and picturesque amenity. The demonstration linear park at 650 Park Avenue, completed in May 2017, serves as a catalyst for modernizing the entire corridor with a multi-use trail, horticulturally rich planting, solar-powered pedestrian lighting and programmed spaces. The park will unify multiple properties and provide a place for employees, residents, and visitors to meet, play and work. Designs for the full Linear Park are in development with construction slated for 2018.

KOP BID also hired Ground Reconsidered to transform barren traffic islands into lushly planted medians bringing year-round interest to these overlooked spaces, providing traffic calming and a reduction in littering. The firm’s design includes a plant palette tolerant of harsh, dry and seasonally salted conditions, comprised of grasses, perennials, shrubs, groundcovers as well as trees.