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Upcoming and Recent Events


May 9-13 - Dan Leeming presenting on Music of Cities: Urban Design, Placemaking and the Architects as the OAA Conference in Ottawa
May 15th, 2012 - Public Hearing and Council Presentation on the Centre Street Land Use Plan, City of Vaughan, Ontario
May 17th, 2012 - Public Meeting on the Draft Dartmouth Cove Comprehensive Plan, Halifax, Nova Scotia
June 13-15, 2012 - Dan Leeming  presenting & paneling at the District Energy Association Conference in Ottawa

 

 

 

Recent Press


TPP held successful neighbourhood 'Greening' workshops for the Highland Creek Watershed (read more from the Inside Toronto) (read more from the Toronto Observer) 

 

Recent CBC Radio broadcast on the Goderich Rebuild Master Plan  http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ontariomorning_20120502_62015.mp3

 

Christopher Hume's recent viseo article in Toronto Star about TPP's Underpass Park- http://bit.ly/Hfg511

 

TPP recently unveiled the most recent plans for the Goderich Rebuild at a public meeting - Read More

 

TPP's Sherbourne Common, Sugar Beach Park and Underpass Park are featured on CBC's The Nature of Things with David Suzuki - Suzuki Diaries: Future City http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/suzuki-diaries-future-city.html

 

TPP recently facilitated a weeklong planning & design charrette for the Dartmouth Cove Comprehensive Plan.  The 21 acre brownfield site on the Downtown Dartmouth waterfront presents a tremendous image-defining and city-building opportunity for the community.  Read More


Funding is now in place for Warrensville/VanAken, a TOD (Transit Oriented Development) in   Shaker Heights, Ohio, that was prepared by TPP.  Read the press release.

 

The Environmental Assessment for John Street is complete and will now go to City of Toronto Council for approval.  To read the City's Staff report (http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2012/pw/bgrd/backgroundfile-44944.pdf).  To read more about the study (http://www.toronto.ca/involved/projects/john/index.htm#get).  To read a recent blog on the design (http://www.blogto.com/city/2012/02/what_do_you_think_of_the_redesign_plans_for_john_st/)

 

TPP recently facilitated a highly successful 3-day community-based workshop for the tornado stricken historic downtown area in Goderich. Read More

 

TPP's work on River City was recently featured by John Bentley Mays in the Globe and Mail Read More

 

 

Recent Awards

 

Sherbourne Common - was the recent recipient of the 2011 Gold Design Exchange Award

 

John Street Arts & Culture Promenade - was the recent recipient of the first annual 2011 Toronto Business Improvement Areas Awards

 

Bloorcourt Village Capital Improvement Plan - was the recent recipient of the first annual 2011 Toronto Business Improvement Areas Awards

 

Sugar Beach - was the recipient of a 2011 City of Toronto Urban Design Award

 


Recent Announcements


TPP is pround to announce the Nancy Chater, Brett Hoornaert & Michael Ormston-Holloway have been promoted to Associates.

 

Harold Madi was recently appointed to the Toronto Community Housing Corporation Design Review Panel and the newly established City of Vaughan Design Review Panel.


John Tassiopoulos was reappointed to the Committee of Adjustment - Toronto & East York District. 

 

TPP is pleased to announce Wai Ying DiGiorgio has joined us as a new Associate.  Wai Ying brings 15-years of experience in urban design and landscape architecture.

 

TPP is please to announce the following new planners and designers to the team: Kate Nelischer and Kimberly Voisin

 

David Leinster was recently appointed chair of the City of Ottawa Urban Design Review Panel.

 

 

New Major Projects

 

The Planning Partnership is facilitating training workshops for the Mobility Hub Guidelines for Metrolinx. The training workshops are being held for GTHA municipalities, professional organizations and BILD.

 

The Planning Partnership is facilitating workshops for the Town of Richmond Hill - What makes a great civic precinct? Three visioning workshops will be held over the next month, culminating in a public design workshop on June 20. Read More.

 

TPP was recently retained to design and implement Bellevue Square Park Improvements for the City of Toronto (Public Meeting to review the new plan, April 2nd at 6:30 p.m. at St. Stephen's Community House, 91 Bellevue Avenue, Toronto)

 

TPP was recently retained to prepare Highland Watershed Neighbourhood Greening Concept Site Plans for the Toronto Region Conservation Authority

 

TPP has been retained to lead a Waterfront Development Master Plan for the Town of Nipigon

 

TPP was recently retained by the Waterfront Development Corporation and Halifax Regional Municipality to prepare a Comprehensive Planning Study for Dartmouth Cove - a new potential mixed-use neighbourhood on a waterfront brownfield site adjacent to Downtown Dartmouth

 

TPP was recently retained to undertake an Employment Lands Strategy for Calgary, Alberta

 

TPP was recently retained to undertake a Public Art Master Plan for Lethbridge, Alberta 

 

TPP in collaboration with Delcan and Ken Greenberg was recently retained to undertake the Downtown Ottawa Mobility Overlay