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Summer 2010
We hit the year running with the Grand Opening of Los Medanos Village and the start of construction on St. Joseph's Redevelopment. Our travels brought us to the Big Easy to participate in the APA National Planning Conference as well as a whirlwind trip to Abu Dhabi for a presentation of VMWP's work to the United Arab Emirates Planning Council.
Not to mention (but we will) winning phase I of the National Green Design Competition in El Paso, TX, the University of Colorado at Boulder ULI Panel and new projects with the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Pacific School of Religion.
Check out our newsletter for more information and to see what else we have been up to.
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| NEWS |
| CHANGED!! A Design Competition - Building on last year's success with the LOST! competition - VMWP will be sponsoring 'CHANGED' a fun competition for Architects, Planners and Developers in September. Awards will be bestowed upon the projects that demonstrate the most change from initial design concept to the actual final design. Keep a lookout for more information and a call for entries - you won't want to miss it! |
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Horseshoe Flats, VMWP's design entry was one of three winners of Phase I of the the National Green Design Competition sponsored by the Housing Authority of the City of El Paso. The competition seeks the most talented architects to deliver bold, new, and exciting designs that positively impact the way we live. Check out a video of our entry here. |
 VMWP associate Michael Kloefkorn will be on the jury for the USGBC's Natural Talent Design Competition. Participants compete in local competitions, and the top winner of each moves on to compete for a national award at USGBC’s annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo. |
| Rick Williams, partner, was a speaker at the APA's National Planning Conference in New Orleans on Context-Sensitive Affordable Housing. The panel discussed the challenges to affordable housing presented by form-based codes. |
 Our office has geared up and hit the pavement for the annual Team Bike Challenge. Last year VMWP ranked first among small companies in San Francisco. The event promotes biking to work by making every day in May a bike to work day. |
 VMWP participated in the University of Colorado at Boulder ULI's Panel on its Graduate Student Housing Master Plan. The event was co-hosted by ULI Colorado and the University of Colorado. Tim Van Meter chaired the panel and Fred Pollack was a panelist. |
| There must be something in the air or water because we've had an abundance of new births this year with some more on the way! Congratulations to Rahul Mohare in our Denver office and Lacey Traeger and Karen Murray in our San Francisco office on their new family members. |
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New Urban News ran Modular Multifamily Prototypes Designed, a piece on VMWP's work developing urban modular housing with ModSystems SB in the March print issue. Tim Van Meter was interviewed. Read the article here. |
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 Ho'opili has been recognized as an outstanding healthy and child-friendly community by the International Making Cities Livable Council! Adam Rosa of Van Meter Williams Pollack will represent D.R. Horton, Schuler Division and the Ho'opili Task Force at the 48th International Making Cities Livable Conference on True Urbanism: Planning Healthy, and Child-Friendly Communities. The Conference will be held from October 17-21 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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| PROJECTS |
| VMWP is working with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop a set of parameters and Lessons Learned for Land Use Planning for Transit Related Development. The findings of this national study have been compiled from research, developer testimonials and analysis of professional practice in current ways of developing different types and typologies of Transit Oriented Development. |
| VMWP, with Alex Salazar, were selected to conduct a Feasibility Study for New Graduate Student Housing for the Pacific School of Religion. The study analyzed the existing program and explored programmatic options for the seminary campus in Berkeley, CA. |
 St. Joseph's Redevelopment has begun construction on Phase I. This is an adaptive re-use of a historic building into 84 units of affordable senior housing in the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland, CA. A second phase is planned for affordable family apartments and first time home buyer units. BRIDGE Housing is the developer. |
 Los Medanos Village
held its Grand Opening earlier this month. The sustainably built
community of one to three bedroom flats and townhouses are clustered around
a series of courtyards and is located in Pittsburg, CA. The client is
Resources for Community Development (RCD).
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| VMWP has been working with American Baptist Homes of the west (ABHOW) as a consultant on a rehabilitation of Pacific Meadows, an affordable senior housing development in Carmel, CA. The project will reach net zero energy use through photovoltaic panels and net metering. |
 A community open house
was recently held presenting an overview of the Sunnydale HOPE SF Master Plan. The plan has been submitted to the City of San Francisco for environmental review. Mercy Housing is the developer. |
| Our Denver office has two exciting new projects that will transform obsolete industrial land into mixed-use urban infill. The sites are located in the cities of Denver and Brighton, Colorado. |
