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MHCP COLAB Runs Outreach and Community Support for Related Group and City of Hollywood Public Private Partnership
A transformative beachfront project will rebuild $10M of public improvements on public land, including a state of the art community...
May 211 min read


Colab Wins 2022 Florida American Planning Association Award of Excellence
Colab wins Florida APA 2022 Award of Excellence for Innovative Planning for All Ages for the Little Havana Pedestrian Priority Zones. Our...
May 211 min read


Urban Land Institute features MHCP COLAB's Work with West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority
Urban Land Institute publishes a compilation of national and international quick changes to the public realm in response to the pandemic...
May 201 min read


Downtown LA PreCOVID: My Last West Coast Assignment
My last trip to Los Angeles was January 2020. There were a few people in the airport wearing face masks, but most of us were blissfully...
Feb 4, 20214 min read


Close Talkers
Image #1: The closest of the close talkers in the Marylebone area of London Remember that Seinfeld episode about the close talker? How...
Apr 27, 20203 min read


Come Away With Me to London's South Bank
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...
Mar 24, 20204 min read


Why You Should Embrace Guerrilla Placemaking: Abrazzo
It used to be called guerrilla urbanism. Young intellectuals. Secretly building urban improvements in the middle of the night. Intending...
Nov 8, 20193 min read


Miami Art Week: We Never Looked So Good
Before Santa comes his little elves descend upon Miami and take over our town for the biggest, baddest art fair in all of the land. They...
Jan 16, 20193 min read


Parks: Keepin' it Real in West Palm Beach
Sometimes simplicity is just better. One of my favorite towns, West Palm Beach, does it again. George Petty Park is a shining example of...
Dec 3, 20183 min read


Table for 400: Miami's Latest Experiment, Taste of Avenue 3
It's not every day that you can enjoy an intimate meal with 400 of your closest friends, but community dinners are a thing. And Miami...
Oct 25, 20185 min read


A Tropical Urban Oasis: How Upper Buena Vista Got it Right
Miami is a beautiful city with it's turquoise ocean and maze of water and bridges. Water inspires everything we do. It shapes our...
Aug 31, 20183 min read


A River Runs Through It: New York's Hudson River Park
You don't need Brad Pitt to make this river shine. New York's Hudson River Park is 4-miles of waterfront park perfection. We loved the...
May 30, 20186 min read


Pineapples, Bicycles and Bulb-outs (Oh My!): How this Small Village is Nailing it
Some cities always cry out for attention while others quietly progress with spectacular results. The sleepy little Village of Miami...
Mar 31, 20184 min read


Size Matters: Why Beaufort Does it Better
This winter my kids experienced real snow for the first time in Bluffton County South Carolina. Flashbacks to my childhood waking up to a...
Jan 30, 20183 min read


You've Come a Long Way Baby: Downtown West Palm Beach
During the season, one of my favorite places to visit is West Palm Beach's Green Market. It's not just the vendors with their colorful...
Nov 30, 20174 min read


Placemaking, We've Got this Miami
Miami Beach You know those cities whose cool factor just eludes you? The ultra hip downtown with its farm fresh markets, organic raw...
Jul 30, 20174 min read


How I Stumbled Upon This Super Cool Park in Cali (fornia)
Growing up in the suburbs, parks didn't play such a vital role in my childhood life. Most of our outdoor play happened around our home or...
May 30, 20173 min read


Good Streets, Great Places: What Every Urban Enthusiast Should Know
We can't import Europe's historical character and public spaces to Miami, but we can learn from their examples to make our fair city even...
Apr 30, 20173 min read


Miami Design District versus Beverly Hills: Inspiring Minds Want to Know
Last May, on a trip to LA, I snapped a bunch of pics of my favorite neighborhoods including Beverly Hills. But it wasn't until I returned...
Feb 25, 20174 min read


A Miami Story DIY 101: How to Make Your City Waterfront Fabulous
For the past year, my team and I have been diligently working to plan and create the Baywalk pop-up--a temporary public art installation...
Nov 24, 20165 min read
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