This master plan establishes a strategy to attract Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and revitalize a deteriorated urban neighborhood. The neighborhood is a multi-ethnic district with relatively low average incomes, a deteriorated housing stock and patterns of vacancy and underutilization of commercial properties. The Station is heavily used by commuters both leaving and coming to Norwalk [...]
Urban Design
Framingham Downtown Study
The Framingham Downtown Study was a multi-disciplinary project, which studied the transportation, urban design and economic development implications of traffic improvement strategies for Framingham’s Downtown including the area near the MBTA commuter rail station. The purpose was to develop a plan that would relieve the existing debilitating vehicular congestion in Downtown Framingham, while simultaneously preserving [...]
Port Canaveral Land Use Plan
As part of a multi-disciplinary team, The Cecil Group was responsible for the land planning elements of the Land Use Plan for the Commercial/Industrial and “Cove” Area of Port Canaveral. This comprehensive study evaluated the potential of significant portions of the Port to better support its maritime and civic mission, providing a range of commercial [...]
Belmont Waverly Square Urban Design
The Town of Belmont commissioned The Cecil Group to complete a feasibility study for the acquisition and development of air rights over the MBTA rail station at Waverley Square. This project is a continuation of the firm’s previous study of a significant travel corridor in Belmont. Waverley Square is an important community center within the [...]
Rutherford Avenue Corridor Study
The Cecil Group is the urban design consultant on a team that is planning and designing the future reconstruction of Rutherford Avenue in Boston. One of the main corridors providing access from the north, Rutherford Avenue was built in an era of automobile and highway expansion. Traffic volumes have since decreased in this corridor. The [...]
Norwalk Parcel 3 Redevelopment Project
The Cecil Group served as the master planners, landscape architects and coordinating architects for the private-sector redevelopment project revitalizing the Wall Street/Harbor area in Norwalk, Connecticut. The project included two new mixed-used developments and the rehabilitation of historic buildings that line the neighboring streets. New plazas and park improvements connect to a new riverwalk that [...]