9th & Broadway is an urban community of duplex rowhouses that occupy a long-vacant parcel in Sacramento’s Richmond Grove district. In the 1960s, the construction of the Interstate Highway permanently severed the area from the city’s older neighborhoods, leaving behind an urban limb with falling property values and a deteriorating social and economic fabric. After...
Founded in 1972, the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) provides affordable housing and business financing products by working with lenders, developers, local government, nonprofits, and community groups. A new WHEDA workplace needed to maximize efficiency and facilitate their mission to meet growing needs for affordable housing, business, and agricultural financing activity in Wisconsin....
This small, unassuming family residence occupies a steeply sloped site in Madison’s Spring Harbor neighborhood, a post-war suburb within the city limits and in close proximity to downtown and the University of Wisconsin campus. The lot had sat idle for decades, considered too difficult to develop because of its narrow triangular shape, limited buildable footprint,...
The Curtain House is a private residence on a long-vacant, narrow parcel embedded in Milwaukee’s Lower East Side, a dense, demographically diverse neighborhood known for affordable housing options and its lively mix of young families, blue-collar workers, students, and artists. The client, a lifelong urban dweller looking for a buildable lot in the central city...
Block 27 is a small, four-unit rental apartment building in the Newton Booth district on Sacramento’s east side. The compact structure sits on an empty infill lot at the boundary between an area of distribution centers, warehouses, and light-industrial buildings on one side, and a dense residential neighborhood with treelined streets on the other. In response...
