Housing Planning

2018 Award for a Plan Alleghenies Ahead-Shared Strategies for a Stronger Region Southern Alleghenies Regional Planning & Development Commission and the Counties of Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fulton, Huntingdon & Somerset Alleghenies Ahead is an unprecedented multi-county comprehensive plan.  It involves six counties ranging in population from 15,000 to 135,000.  The counties realized they have common   …

Planning Excellence Award – Plan Other Than a Comprehensive Plan Downtown Allentown Development and Urban Design Plan Goody Clancy, City of Allentown, Nelson/Nygaard, Barry Islett & Associates, CodaMetrics, Zimmerman/Volk Associates Allentown commissioned this plan in 2014 to provide new direction in response to growth and major investments from the Neighborhood Improvement Zone program.  NIZ had   …

2015 Planning Achievement Award – Advancing Diversity and Social Change John C. Anderson Apartments Wallace, Roberts & Todd, Pennrose Development, Dr. Magnus Hershfeld Fund The John C. Anderson Apartments is the first senior citizen housing project build by and for the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) community in Pennsylvania and only the third in the nation.  It serves   …