In Traverse City, most alleys operate as public right-of-ways offering priority to mail trucks, beer deliveries, and providing limited parking for VIPs.  With densification in mind, the deep block between Front St. and State St. boasts the potential for new tenant space, and begs the question of whether more building owners should consider fronting the [...]

Downtown Traverse City’s mote, the Boardman river, undeveloped and underutilized, acts as a boundary in which zones of pedestrian activity cross but rarely engage.  We envision a reprogramming of its adjacencies, the majority being surfing parking lots, to allow for topographical changes of the river’s edge.  Such manipulations to the existing space, creating amphitheaters, patios, [...]