news_hdg.gif (1124 bytes)
Phoenixville Master Plan featured in ULI's Multi-Family Trends

 

January 2005

ArchPlan's master plan for Phoenixville, Pennsylvania was highlighted in the Winter 2005 issue of Multi-Family Trends, a publication of the Urban Land InstituteThe article, entitled "The Match Game: Bringing Together Affordable Housing and Transit Villages", cited Phoenixville as one of several projects which is successful in linking transit and land use.  ArchPlan's master plan for Phoenixville is centered on a station for the proposed Schuylkill Valley Metro, with connections to Philadelphia, and all parts of the project are within easy walking distance of the station.   Commercial, retail, and corporate apartments join residential townhouses, which have proved so popular that "hundreds of people camped out in near-freezing temperatures for an opportunity to purchase the units".

TheMatchGame_all_small.jpg (404810 bytes)

Urban Land Institute - Baltimore

More News


 About ArchPlan | Rehabilitation | Planning | Multi-Family
 Transportation | Residential | Commercial | Writing | News | Links