It was a pleasure crafting an article for Planning Magazine on behalf of Dan Marsh of NDC, Seth Pinsky of RXR Realty, and Luiz Aragon, Development Commissioner of New Rochelle. Titled “Skin in the Game,” the piece goes in-depth about an innovative, market-based planning process that is wildly successful for redeveloping downtown New Rochelle.
This public-private-nonprofit collaboration is creating dense, transit-oriented development with significant community benefits baked into the process while protecting surrounding neighborhoods. This is exactly how cities will succeed economically, socially, environmentally. This planning process works.
See the whole article (PDF): NEW ROCHELLE_1218-1