Project: Atlantic City Master Plan by The Jerde Partnership and Jones Lang LaSalle

 

The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) recently approved The Atlantic City Tourism District Master Plan, a set of ideas and strategies to rejuvenate the city and increase tourism by creating a world-class resort destination. The Master Plan was developed by real estate services consulting firm Jones Lang LaSalle and Los Angeles-based architecture and design firm The Jerde Partnership. 

Totaling approximately 1,700 acres, the Tourism District encompasses some of the city’s most valuable land, including the beach, Boardwalk, casinos, and retail areas such as The Walk, Marina District, and Gardner’s Basin. Among the pedestrian improvements included in the plan is an expansion of the successful “Walk” to connect the Central Business District to Pacific Avenue and the Boardwalk. The plan also calls for improvements to lateral streets, such as Michigan, Missouri, and Mississippi, which connect Atlantic and Pacific Avenues to the Boardwalk. Those improvements will include a combination of upgrades to the casino facades, improved lighting, and restrictions on delivery and waste collection times. 

“Reinforcing the street life and pedestrian circulation of Atlantic City, particularly between the main tourist streets and around the casino core, is one of the key goals of the master plan strategy and is critical to enhancing the overall visitor experience,” says Rick Poulos, AIA, Jerde partner and executive vice president.  “A more vibrant, accessible and safe street life will foster a stronger sense of place in Atlantic City and create experiences for visitors and residents not found in any beachfront resort city in the world.”


The master plan was mandated by a state law in February last year that gave CRDA control of the development of the Atlantic City Tourism District and required the agency to put together a strategic development plan by February 1, 2012.  

Event: ULI Los Angeles Urban Marketplace

ULI Los Angeles presents its 12th annual Urban Marketplace, bringing together real estate industry professionals to learn best practices and solidify relationships. A must attend event for those involved with or interested in urban development and redevelopment projects throughout and around Los Angeles County, Urban Marketplace convenes the leaders, planners and deal makers who contribute to the vitality of our urban fabric. The format includes a panel presentation, 20+ topical roundtable discussions, and an exhibitor marketplace.

Wednesday, March 7, 2011

7:30 am to 12:30 pm

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

For more information, visit the ULI Los Angeles event website.

Book: Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee

New South Books has released a new book on the nation’s first professionally trained African-American architect, Robert Taylor (Taylor was also the first African-American graduate of MIT). Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee was researched and written by architectural historian Ellen Weiss, professor emerita at Tulane University’s School of Architecture and Planning. The book connects Taylor’s personal life with a prominent product of his ground breaking career—the campus of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. The book also considers the state of architectural education for African Americans at the turn of the 20th century and the white donors who funded Tuskegee’s buildings, other Tuskegee architects, and Taylor’s buildings elsewhere.

Product: The Proust Chair by Alesandro Mendini

The influential Italian designer Alessandro Mendini has produced a re-edition of a classic from contemporary Italian design originally produced by Studio Alchimia in 1978. The chair is structured by a hand-carved and hand-painted wooden frame and upholstered with rotational-moulded polyethylene, so it works for an outdoor setting. The Proust is available in a full range of monochrome palettes and a bright multi-colored fabric. The chair is manufactured by Cappellini and available through Magis.

FORM Issue Event

Join us for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and lively stories at our next FORM issue at the Poltrona Frau & Cappellini Showroom. FORM Publisher Ann Gray will sit down with Paul Matt of MATT Construction to tell the best stories of a career working with the likes of Frank Gehry, I.M. Pei, and Louis Kahn.

Please RSVP to rsvp@FORMmag.net or 818.956.5313. Include name, title, phone, and email.

Thursday, February, 9, 2012, 6:30 pm-9:30 pm
8950 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048