The Global Owl

Come Away With Me to London's South Bank

If you're like me, you've hunkered down in your house to stay safe and keep the community safer. The new normal is waving across the street to your neighbors as you carefully gauge your distance, facetime with family and friends and lots of zoom meetings and conferencing. There are no more walks in the park, lunch with friends, client meetings or weekend plans. If you're lucky, you are able to walk outside easily while social distancing. Times, for sure are difficult and scary and many of us are struggling. We are social beings and doers. We are worried about the future and our friends and colleagues. There is so much uncertainty. I want to do my part to help, so I've written this article from last summer's trip to England to virtually transport you to the Thames River and London's South Bank.

Baywalk Pop-up On Hold

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

WE ARE ONE

COVID- 19

Our office continues to remain open to serve our clients' needs during this difficult time in our world history. We have discovered that we are all inextricably connected- young, old, poor and wealthy, through different languages and continents.

Our actions do connect us.

How can we use this knowledge to advance our cities for good and better?

NEW+ EXCITING

PR Campaign: Safe + Secure in the Time of Coronavirus

MHCP COLAB is developing a public relations campaign for the extended stay hotel, Nuvo Suites, which offers a safe port for the medical community, front-line responders and displaced residents to ride out what seems to be developing into a very difficult time.

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 past 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 by firm principal, 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.