Master Plan for Downtown

Fort Lauderdale

Greenberg Consultants in collaboration with Beyer Blinder Belle and Keith and Schnars was awarded the contract to create a Consolidated Master Plan for Downtown Fort Lauderdale. The plan includes a hundred block area in the heart of the city and will emphasize mixed-use transit oriented development. This plan responds to an extraordinary set of opportunities both physical and market-based which favor the creation of a lively and vibrant city core and is structured around a number of key themes:

Public realm/ green structure
Public pedestrian spaces including streetscapes, parks, plazas, and the River's edges; and linkages including connections to surrounding neighborhoods and the Beach

Urban structure
Land use, urban pattern, built form and typologies including the definition of districts or precincts of particular character and use, and criteria for integrating improved and existing transportation facilities with appropriate uses, density and urban form

Movement
Circulation of vehicles - automobiles and trucks, traffic calming measures, street hierarchy and type, parking, public transit, bicycles and pedestrian facilities

Market/economy
Emerging patterns of use and characterization of market in all relevant sectors; opportunities for growth and synergies

Implementation
Policies, roles, tools, and resources - challenges to be overcome, Sustainable development practices, achieving affordable housing, review of codes, standards, and practices, design guidelines and policies, strategies for public investment, identification of pipeline and pilot projects

The final product, the Consolidated Downtown Master Plan, is a flexible tool that can be interpreted over time. It emphasizes the Downtown's ground plane as well as 3 dimensional characteristics. It encompasses investment in new public facilities, proposes street and park design improvements, circulation strategies, and locates areas of key redevelopment concentration.