ECO.lution is an annual series of community focused interactive events designed to encourage Tampa to make sustainable choices. As a community, Tampa’s local fabric is identified through its artistic flavor, sense of entrepreneurship, natural beauty, transportation needs and the built environment. The Return to Local spirit of ECO.lution invites you to see how these five fundamental features work to not only define Tampa as a place, but also sustain it.
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In 2013, the Urban Charrette was invited to lead an engagement process with citizens in various communities across Pinellas County. The goal was to elicit ideas from these stakeholders on how they imagined areas around the proposed transit stations might grow once rail transit arrived.
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In 2008, The Urban Charrette, applied for and received a Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) grant from the American Institute of Architects Center for Communities by Design. The SDAT grant program connects communities with teams of technical experts chosen to provide applied expertise to urban design problems, with a focus on social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
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The Tampa Downtown Partnership retained the services of the Urban Charrette to plan and facilitate a design charrette focused on the potential for a water taxi service in the downtown Tampa area.
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In the Spring of 2010, the Urban Charrette facilitated a design charrette for StageWorks Theatre, a Tampa-based non-profit theatre company. StageWorks Theatre approached the Urban Charrette to assist in developing strategies and affordable concepts to accomplish the interior build-out of their new theatre space, located in Tampa’s Channel District.
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