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<br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach ∙ RFQ No. 12-04-02 – Planning & Urban Design <br />2-7 <br />Redevelopment Areas are all part of redevelopment. Specifically, C3TS has <br />developed a specialty in the beautification and revitalization of main streets, <br />downtowns and business corridors. Places such as Downtown South Miami, the <br />Kennedy Causeway Business District in North Bay Village, Crandon Boulevard in <br />Key Biscayne, and Miracle Mile and Giralda Avenue in Coral Gables have all <br />benefited from the firm’s urban design, land use and zoning, traffic <br />enhancement, and economic revitalization specializations. The last few years <br />have witnessed the rebirth of the City of South Miami’s Downtown Business <br />District. Located along three blocks at the intersection of US-1, Red Road (57th <br />Avenue), and Sunset Drive (SW 72nd Street)—in the heart of Miami-Dade <br />County—downtown South Miami had struggled with unsafe road conditions, <br />limited pedestrian activity, and an excess of failed businesses. In 1992, a design <br />charrette was conducted to develop a vision. Starting in the late 1990s and <br />continuing for several years, C3TS (a city planning/architecture/civil and traffic <br />engineering/grant-writing firm) worked to implement the plan through attractive <br />urban design. The result is that Downtown South Miami has transformed from <br />one of the least appealing downtowns in South Florida to one of its most <br />successful and competitive ones, with an influx of new mixed-use construction <br />even during the current economic climate. For its role in revitalizing Downtown <br />South Miami, C3TS was awarded the Best Implementation of a Plan Award by <br />the American Planning Association’s Miami-Dade/Monroe County Chapter. <br />Similarly, Corradino worked with the South Miami CRA in developing a master <br />plan and housing options designed to reinvest in this community. For the City of <br />Clearwater, Corradino’s “One City, One Future” master plan focused on <br />redevelopment in their minority and underprivileged neighborhoods. For <br />Sarasota’s CRA, Corradino planned and implemented a Transportation <br />Concurrency Management Area, which enables the expansion of roadway <br />capacity on an area-wide basis, to remove the prohibition of development due <br />to lack of capacity. <br /> <br />CORRIDOR PLANNING <br />Corradino has done corridor planning across the nation. Recently in this region, the <br />firm has planned for the US-1 Corridor, the SR 7 Corridor, Krome Avenue Corridor, as <br />well as similar efforts in Doral, Miami Beach, North Miami, and many others. The firm <br />has an extensive Preliminary Design and Environmental Planning Division (PD&E) that <br />works on these projects for FDOT and other departments of transportation. <br /> <br />The processes used to plan transportation projects are ever evolving, yet they are <br />still very centralized. In light of the more diverse livability goals of contemporary