The Global Owl

Why You Should Embrace this Guerrilla Placemaking: Abrazzo

It used to be called guerrilla urbanism. Young intellectuals. Secretly building urban improvements in the middle of the night. Intending to make something great to inspire. Looking for a permanent solution. Avoiding the conventional approval process. Fast and unsanctioned. Enter a new dawn of guerrilla urbanism- funded by a private foundation and sanctioned by the local college in a course called Reimagining Cities. This is placemaking in its purest and simplest form.

Baywalk Pop-up On Hold

Design is being refined due to multiple construction projects on the project site.

TAKE NOTE

Melissa Hege City Planning is now MHCP COLAB, short for collaborative. As the company grows we can offer more services in a collaborative manner. These services include public relations, marketing and media.

NEW+ EXCITING

PPZs and TUPs

Alphabet Soup for Lunch

MHCP COLAB is leading an effort to craft a Temporary Use Permitting process for the West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority. Think pop-up parks, temporary gardens and playgrounds.

The firm embarks on a year long process to create a Pedestrian Priority Zone for the Little Havana neighborhood in Miami. Funded through a grant from the Health Foundation of South Florida and in partnership with the City of Miami and Urban Health Partners. Making streets safer to cross!

Melissa Hege selected for Urban Land Institute's 2019 Leadership Institute

This September, Melissa Hege joined the ULI's Leadership Institute with fellow real estate and land development professionals for a year-long training program.

MHCP COLAB is a collaborative practice, owned and operated by Melissa Hege, AICP, LEED AP.

The firm specializes in identifying and pursuing urban infrastructure related investments, which add exponential value to cities. These include waterfront parks, bicycle and pedestrian trails, and complete streets—streets which have comfortable and protected zones for bicycles, pedestrians, cars, and transit. She advocates and builds support for these projects by developing relationships with public agencies, local non-profits and foundations, property owners and the community.

Firm principal, Melissa Hege, has written critical and inspiring articles about elevating the quality of American cities through better planning. She has lectured and taught graduate, college and middle school courses on this subject.