The Cecil Group led a multi-disciplinary team that advanced Providence’s “Three Cities” initiative, preparing a vision and a plan to reconnect the downtown with the neighborhoods to the west. The plan explored the development and neighborhood revitalization opportunities that can be triggered by reversing unfortunate urban design and development patterns. The street, development, and highway [...]
Community Planning
Springfield Neighborhood Master Plan
The Cecil Group, in association with Tai Soo Kim Partners of Hartford, Connecticut, worked with the City of Springfield and Springfield College to prepare a comprehensive community master plan for the College and its surrounding neighborhoods, including Old Hill and Upper Hill. A major component of the strategy was the integration of streetscape, open space, [...]
Bus Rapid Transit and the American Community National Design Competition
The Cecil Group assisted the Federal Transit Authority and an industry consulting group, WestStart-CalStart, in structuring planning initiatives for new bus rapid transit systems throughout the United States. The program included consideration of new technologies, bus designs and approaches to helping communities reinvent the bus to meet their contemporary needs. A core part of the [...]
Stonybrook Center Master Plan
The Cecil Group prepared a master plan for the development of a new “town center” on 300 acres of undeveloped land for this historic community. The plan applies neo-traditional town planning principles to the siting of a new town hall annex, a library, elementary and intermediary schools, housing, an amphitheater and an extensive program of [...]
Southeastern Massachusetts Vision 2020
The Cecil Group collaborated with fifty cities and towns from Bristol, Plymouth, and Norfolk Counties in Massachusetts on a joint initiative addressing regional growth management. As part of this award-winning plan, the Cecil Group defined the issues and choices facing Southeastern Massachusetts, built regional support and developed a consensus vision and strategy for future development [...]