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Savannah City Council adopts Downtown Masterplan
Today the City of Savannah mayor and aldermen adopted the 2033 Downtown Savannah Plan together with the Congress for the New Urbanism Eastside Redevelopment Plan and Southside Retrofit Legacy Projects. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to move the plan forward....
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"Recently, citizens gathered at the Coastal Georgia Center last week for a presentation on the Savannah Development and Renewal Authority’s Downtown Savannah 2033 masterplan. The presentation received an enthusiastic response, which is remarkable since many Savannah...
City Talk column: Development authority unveils downtown master plan
"Urban planner Denise Grabowski outlined those goals in a short general presentation before attendees moved to the lobby to consider panels devoted to various concepts and individual neighborhoods. I was struck, as I often am at public meetings in Savannah, by the...
City looking ahead to 2033, Savannah’s 300th birthday
"Savannah is nearly 300 years old, and the city is already looking ahead with a 2033 plan. The Savannah Development and Renewal Authority designed the plan at no charge to the city. The plan was presented in a community meeting Tuesday night. Residents were pleased...
Residents get a final look at ‘Downtown Savannah 2033’ master plan
“This is a kind of first step in that approach looking not only downtown today but downtown where it’s going to be in the future to the east, to the west and to the south,” said urban planner Denise Grabowski. Read more from WSAV-TV
CNU Legacy Project: What’s the Plan?
A team of nationally recognized experts proposed catalytic interventions in the Eastside neighborhoods of Savannah, Georgia—a 2.5-square-mile area southeast of the city’s historic district. Head over to CNU Public Square to read all about what our experts have...
Partners and Donors for Community Charrettes
Partners and Donors Ardsley Park/Chatham Crescent Neighborhood Association Creative Approach Collins Construction Downtown Neighborhood Association Foram Group – Travis Stringer Gaslight Group Mate Factor Sentient Bean SDRA Board and Committees Thomas and Hutton...
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Downtown Savannah 2033
In 2011, the City of Savannah adopted portions of a Master Plan, the first cohesive vision of the city’s future since General Oglethorpe laid out the squares. The Savannah Development and Renewal Authority (SDRA) is leading an update to that 20 year plan called...
Congress for New Urbanism Calls for Community Participation
The Congress for New Urbanism is a collection of urban designers, architects, planners, developers and engineers who stand for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns, the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into communities of real neighborhoods and...