Riverfront Town Center at Calabash

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The Project

The Riverfront Town Center was designed to energize Shallotte’s Central Business District—the economic, civic, and cultural core of the community—and provide access to the beautiful Shallotte River. To help realize this goal, the Town contracted with Traditional Neighborhood Development Partners, LLC, of Durham, NC, to develop a transformative Town Center on approximately 20 acres in the center of Shallotte. The mixed-use Town Center plan followed new urbanist principles and will include dining, retail stores, apartments and houses, offices, an inn, and civic buildings. Visitors to the Riverfront Town Center would have been able to enjoy exploring a series of public plazas, parks, and a Riverwalk along the Shallotte River—all connecting to the Town’s new Mulberry Park and the planned Brunswick County Blueway and Greenway systems.

Central Park School for Children

Central Park School for Children is a tuition-free public charter elementary school in Durham, North Carolina, serving students in kindergarten through 7th grade. They are currently in the process of expanding to a K-8 school. 

Located in Durham's vibrant Central Park district, the school opened in 2002.

Fix The Loop

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The Site

Downtown Durham has made tremendous strides toward becoming a complete urban center of jobs, residents, shopping, dining, recreation, civic services, education, worship, the arts and entertainment.  It has become a place that attracts residents of other parts of the city and county to visit, as well as visitors from other places.

The Project

In March 2015, about 80 citizens, elected officials, and City and County staff members gathered at Trinity United Methodist Church todiscuss the theme “Downtown Durham: from Potential to Greatness.” From the ideas and opinions presented in that charrette, we created a document outlining proposed next steps to make Downtown Durham more pedestrian, cyclist and driver friendly:

Durham's existing planning documents agree that among the next steps for the city is to renovate and remove the Downtown Loop, restore the historic street grid, and make it all two way traffic—including Roxboro Street and Mangum Street.

The Loop is a barrier to pedestrians. It is confusing to drivers. It reduces the development feasibility of land throughout Downtown. It is a constraint to achieving the goals of our Downtown Master Plan. Removing the Loop will create new downtown development sites and make existing undeveloped sites more desirable. This development will meet existing market demand. Restoring our two-way street grid will make Downtown a better place to live, work, walk, shop, play, and be a citizen.

Content from Downtown Durham: From Potential to Greatness; Learn more at www.fixtheloop.org.

Cleveland & Church

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The Site

The City of Durham is considering a reconfiguration of the Downtown Loop near Roxboro and Cleveland. Significant engineering work is complete.  The project would restore the historic street grid and create a site of approximately 200 by 250 feet from prior right-of-way and formerly unusable teardrop islands.

The Project

Cleveland & Church Development Partners proposes the development of the site as a grocery store with three floors of rental housing above.  We project the grocery size at 25,000-30,000 square feet, with about 116 mixed-income apartments — ranging from studios (35% of units) to three bedroom apartments (5%).  Under our proposal, 34% of apartments would rent forunder $700 and 62% under $895 —“affordable by design.”

Lowe's Grove

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The Site

Long admired for the classic simplicity of its “schoolhouse Georgian” architecture and its idyllic campus, Lowe’s Grove School stands as a monument to the importance of agriculture and education in the history of our community. Established 113 years ago, it is Durham’s first and only remaining farm life school. By 1915, Lowe’s Grove was operating as a year-round residential school that included a 154-acre farm. In 1922, Lowe’s Grove received national acclaim for progressive education in Colliers Weekly. 

Even though it has suffered from nearly two decades of “demolition by neglect,” Lowe’s Grove remains an oasis of calm and beauty amid the frenetic pace of high-tech Research Triangle Park. Experts agree that all of the buildings can be saved. 

The Project

In February 2003, the NC 54/I-40Transit Corridor Feasibility Study,Phase I, prepared by Martin/Alexiou/Bryson, PLLC for the Triangle Transit Authority designated Lowe’s Grove for a “Key Activity Center” BRT transit station with “potential for mixed-use development.” This plan would have fulfilled that vision, however, the site's owner, Durham County, instead chose to build a branch library on the site.

Strawberry Hill at Hayes Farm

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The Site

164 beautiful acres adjacent to Edenton, the historic and picturesque colonial capital of North Carolina. The Strawberry Hill community will be designed to reflect local architectural heritage and protect the natural splendor of the adjacent waterways.

Duke University Central Campus

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The Project

Between Duke University's East and West Campuses is designed to create a link that unifies the entire campus. By melding the Gothic and Classical styles of the East and West, our plan transforms the current outdated central campus into a walkable mixed-use village.

Read the Book: Creating a Collegiate Village for Duke

The NOCO District

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The Site

At the corner of Foster Street and Geer Street in Durham, North Carolina, stood four neglected buildings with interesting histories and phenomenal potential.

The Project

We began with redevelopment of 724 Foster Street, a decommissioned army reserve training center, as a child-centered charter school, Central Park School for Children.

Next came 410 West Geer Street, built in 1949 as a Kaiser-Frazer automobile dealership. This building then became the headquarters of North Carolina Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance company. It then became the office of the North Carolina Fund, then an office supply store, then a yearbook printing company. Since being redeveloped as The Trotter Building, it has hosted a number of the Durham community's best times: weddings, birthday parties, design charrettes, concerts, festivals, educational programs and more. It is now home to Pantajali's Community Yoga, Lotus Leaf Local and Imported Goods, and CrossFit Durham.

Adjacent to The Trotter Building, at 420 West Geer Street, is a former gas station that now houses the popular and community-minded coffee shop, Cocoa Cinnamon.

Across from Cocoa Cinnamon at 644 Foster Street sits Geer Street Garden, a popular eatery and bar that has boasted enormous success and local support.

Together, the redevelopment of these properties have allowed innovative small businesses to establish themselves as indispensable compliments to a vibrant, diverse and growing district of downtown Durham. 

Winmore Mixed-Use Community

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The Site

Thirty acres of natural woodland with hiking trails along Bolin Creek are permanently set aside as a nature preserve to provide habitat for animals and protect the creek. In the 60 acres of UNC- CH land adjacent to Winmore, an additional 24 acres along the creek are set aside.

The Project

Winmore emphasizes economic, social and age diversity, as well as more affordable housing. Around 15 percent of the units will be permanent affordable housing, and the others will range from $132,000 up.

*Smart growth communities are also called neighborhood-scale new urbanist projects, traditional neighborhood developments (TNDs), or neo-traditional developments.