Bridgeport Main Street Revitalization Featured on PPS Website
The Bridgeport Main Street Revitalization set the record for the quickest implementation ever in a long history of Opticos projects. The feature on the Project for Public Spaces (PPS) website states it best: “9 week period from the first public ...Part 2: Addressing Missing Middle Housing and Missing People in the Queen City: Cincinnati’s Form-Based Code and Transect
As part of a charrette held the week of Saturday April 28th, Opticos Design built upon months of field documentation, including many hours spent on Google Earth, mapping analysis, photography, and an assessment of the existing zoning code to refine an initial calibration of Cincinnati’s Urban-to-Rural Transect. Choosing and refining a form-based Organizing Principle for a city the size of…Incremental Placemaking: Creating Place and Incubating Small Businesses With Temporary Structures
Creating a place and incubating small businesses through the use of temporary structures In response to the challenging economic climate in which many of our clients have found themselves, we recently included an economist as a part of our charrette team. In addition to helping us assess the current market demand, the economist also has the rather daunting task of…Transforming an Urban Greenway: From an Unobserved Gem to a Great Address
Opticos led a team of consultants in re-imagining Richmond’s commercial corridors through a public multi-day design-based visioning process called a charrette. The efforts of the visioning done at the charrette will eventually lead to a Form-Based Code for the corridors. As part of this work, Opticos and the consultant team focused on ways in which the Form-Based Code could help…Follow us on social media: