K I M D R E S D N E R

u r b a n d e s i g n p o r t f o l i o

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, edu-cate people. -Chinese Proverb

RESUME

PRofESSIoNal GoalSI am an experienced urban planner with a background in transit-oriented developments, multi-family mixed-use, and new urban-ist neighborhood developments. In addition, I have a passion for socio-economic analysis, community development, design for healthy living, and planning for local food systems. With the combination of my experience and professional interests, I strive to make genuinely healthy and sustainable communities.

WoRK ExPERIENCEJHP Architecture/Urban DesignSENIoR URBaN DESIGNER/PlaNNER. 2007-2012Design site plans and transit oriented developments based on New Urbanist concepts. Develop neighborhood studies. act as the company adobe InDesign expert.

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban PlanningRESEaRCH aSSISTaNT. 2005-2007Evaluate and code Master Plans of coastal Michigan based on Smart Growth principles for Professor Dick Norton’s research of Great lakes Coastal Sustainability Project.

EDUCaTIoNUniversity of Michigan, ann arbor, MI 2007Dual Master of Urban Planning and Urban Design.

Denison University, Granville, oH 2004Bachelor of arts with honors in English-writing.Minor, Studio art.

CERTIfICaTIoNS & aCCREDITaTIoNSaICP, Registration #214035, November 2009lEED aP, Registration #10116883, october 2008CNU- accredited, No registration number, December 2010

SofTWaREMicrosoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, outlook; GIS; adobe Photo-shop, InDesign, Illustrator; Sketch-UP; autoCaD.

The projects shown on the following pages are either individual or group-based projects. Some of the graphics from group projects shown in this port-folio may have been done by a team member but are included to tell the story of the project.

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D E C o N S T R U C T I N G a C I T y ; R E C o N S T R U C T I N G a C o M M U N I T y

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2007 2011 2030

Reality is that Detroit is a shrinking city. This doesn’t have to be a negative or scary thought, but rather an opportunity to put Detroit on the forefront of urban innovation and sustainability. as population dropped over the decades since the 1950’s, land and buildings were left vacant, fenced off, and boarded up. Ideally, Detroit will be fully built out and revived in the next ten years, but in truth, rethinking the use of the va-cant land and abandoned buildings in a way that puts these spaces in a productive and sustainable use. Implementing a diverse landscape of urban agriculture, commu-nity gardens, switch grass fields, native habitat, tree farms, active parks, green roofs, and vertical gardens in the abandoned spaces will transform the city of Detroit into a leading ‘green’ city. Creating a unique juxtaposition of rural landscape zone with a dense urbanity zone along key corridors forms a dual edge zone, taking elements of both sides to create a cohesive and transitional city.

Phasing Diagrams showing the shifting landscape over the next 25 years

View of the green, dual edge, and density zones in the west quadrant of downtown Detroit

SHADES OF GREEN

Urban Agriculture

CommunityGardens

Tree Farm

Noise Buffer

Switch Grass

Native Species

Active ParkNetwork

Green Roof

Vertical Garden

Green Parking

FoodProduction

Education

Sense ofCommunity

Storm WaterManagement

HeatingCooling

PeopleOutside

CityBeautification

Biofuel

Phyto-remediation

NaturalPreservation

StreetTrees

University

CommunityDevelopmentCorporations

GroceryMarkets

CityBeautification

RestoreNative and

EndangeredSpecies

CleanAir

Clean Land

Sense of Safety Active

Lifestyle

Money Saving

Flood Prevention

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Defining the shades of green

a look at the City of Detroit in it’s prime

Present Day- Urban agriculture Zone Proposed Urban agriculture Zone

Present Day- Dual Edge Zone Proposed Dual Edge Zone

Present Day- Urban Density Zone Proposed Urban Density Zone

OK l a H o M a C I T y D o W N T o W N H o U S I N G S T U D y

1-5 Units6-10 Units11-15 Units16-25 Units26-50 Units51-100 Units100+ Units

Housing Units by Density (units/acre) Small-Scale Housing Typologies

alternative development patterns for a sample project site

“Mansion” Style Buildings

Townhomes

Corridor Style Buildings

4-Plex or 8-Plex Style Walk-Up Buildings

jHP architecture/Urban Design teamed with DCI, Inc. to investigate the housing stock for downtown oklahoma City. The jHP/DCI team was commissioned to create a report on housing strategies as well as a development implementation plan. The re-port focuses on five specific sub-areas of greater Downtown Oklahoma City. Each of the Study areas correspond with established Downtown Districts, including Bricktown, automobile alley, Midtown, arts District/film Exchange, and Core to Shore. Thorough analysis of each of these Study areas was conducted by looking at housing stock, physical conditions, desires and demands from local residents, and linkages. Through the analysis, the jHP/DCI team established a development framework for downtown oklahoma City to use as it moves forward with housing development.

District linkages

Key Corridors

Existing Pedestrian CoreExpansion of Pedestrian CoreKey Employment

1/4 Mile Walking Zone

TH E V E N I C E E x P E R I E N C E

VENICE PREFERENCE MATRIXHumans naturally prefer some environments over others based on coherence, legibility, complexity, and mystery. Combined, these elements make up what is known as the preference matrix.

Coherence: Order and organization help make upcoherence. An environmentof high coherence can easilybe broken up to organize intomany segments

Legibility: Distinctive elements enhance the depth and help orientation, which leads to high legibility. Openings and landmarks areexamples of ways to increaselegibility

Mystery: Curves and depthin the environment, whichcreate a strong sense ofmystery, beckons one to explore further.

The most preferred environment is the Savannah-an environment where one can hide for protectionwhile still being able to through objects

Complexity: High complexity is marked by a variety in the environment,including different speciesor building types, and variation in the landscape or streetscape

Opening from small roadleads to a sense of legibility

Small, narrow roads enhancea strong sense of mystery

Low complexityis present through similar appearance most buildings and streets

Low coherence due to the lack of a organization noted by the “organic”structure of the city

VENICE PREFERENCE MATRIXHumans naturally prefer some environments over others based on coherence, legibility, complexity, and mystery. Combined, these elements make up what is known as the preference matrix.

Coherence: Order and organization help make upcoherence. An environmentof high coherence can easilybe broken up to organize intomany segments

Legibility: Distinctive elements enhance the depth and help orientation, which leads to high legibility. Openings and landmarks areexamples of ways to increaselegibility

Mystery: Curves and depthin the environment, whichcreate a strong sense ofmystery, beckons one to explore further.

The most preferred environment is the Savannah-an environment where one can hide for protectionwhile still being able to through objects

Complexity: High complexity is marked by a variety in the environment,including different speciesor building types, and variation in the landscape or streetscape

Opening from small roadleads to a sense of legibility

Small, narrow roads enhancea strong sense of mystery

Low complexityis present through similar appearance most buildings and streets

Low coherence due to the lack of a organization noted by the “organic”structure of the city

VENICE PREFERENCE MATRIXHumans naturally prefer some environments over others based on coherence, legibility, complexity, and mystery. Combined, these elements make up what is known as the preference matrix.

Coherence: Order and organization help make upcoherence. An environmentof high coherence can easilybe broken up to organize intomany segments

Legibility: Distinctive elements enhance the depth and help orientation, which leads to high legibility. Openings and landmarks areexamples of ways to increaselegibility

Mystery: Curves and depthin the environment, whichcreate a strong sense ofmystery, beckons one to explore further.

The most preferred environment is the Savannah-an environment where one can hide for protectionwhile still being able to through objects

Complexity: High complexity is marked by a variety in the environment,including different speciesor building types, and variation in the landscape or streetscape

Opening from small roadleads to a sense of legibility

Small, narrow roads enhancea strong sense of mystery

Low complexityis present through similar appearance most buildings and streets

Low coherence due to the lack of a organization noted by the “organic”structure of the city

VENICE PREFERENCE MATRIXHumans naturally prefer some environments over others based on coherence, legibility, complexity, and mystery. Combined, these elements make up what is known as the preference matrix.

Coherence: Order and organization help make upcoherence. An environmentof high coherence can easilybe broken up to organize intomany segments

Legibility: Distinctive elements enhance the depth and help orientation, which leads to high legibility. Openings and landmarks areexamples of ways to increaselegibility

Mystery: Curves and depthin the environment, whichcreate a strong sense ofmystery, beckons one to explore further.

The most preferred environment is the Savannah-an environment where one can hide for protectionwhile still being able to through objects

Complexity: High complexity is marked by a variety in the environment,including different speciesor building types, and variation in the landscape or streetscape

Opening from small roadleads to a sense of legibility

Small, narrow roads enhancea strong sense of mystery

Low complexityis present through similar appearance most buildings and streets

Low coherence due to the lack of a organization noted by the “organic”structure of the city

VENICE PREfERENCE MaTRIxHumans naturally prefer some environments over others based on coherence, legibility, complexity, and mystery. Combined these elements make up what is known as the preference matrix.

Coherence: order and organization help make up coherence. an environment of high coherence can easily be broken up to organize into many segments.

Complexity: High complexity is marked by a variety in envi-ronment, including dif-ferent building types, and variation in the landscape.

legibility: Distinctive elements enhance the depth and help orientation, which leads to high legibility. openings and land-marks are examples of ways of increase legibility.Mystery: Curves and depth in the environ-ment, which create a strong sense of mys-tery, beckons one to explore further.

a. low complexity is pres-ent through similar appear-ance of most buildings and streets.B. Small, narrow roads enhance a strong sense of mystery.C. low coherence due to lack of organization noted by the “organic” structure of the city.D. opening from small road leads to a sense of legibility.

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Passengers on the monorail

Monorail over the lagoon View of Morano from the train Rail lip up for the festival

Monorail stopping in the lido Boat traveling under monorail

anticipating a year long celebration of Venice’s history, urban form, architecture, and culture, each member of the Michigan Urban Design studio was asked to create temporary and permanent interventions to accommodate millions of international tourists as part of the academic exercise. To help relieve the dense tourist population in the island of Venice and the abundant local population on the surrounding islands and mainland, this project proposes to create a monorail system that travels around the lagoon, stopping at strategic points such as Marco Polo airport, the train station in Venice, the Lido, and several other economically significant barrier islands. In addition to the monorail system, the port should be moved to Punta Sabioni for two important reasons. first, the port should cater to the resort tourism located on the peninsula, and second, the move will protect the fragile water and marine life in the lagoon. Through these large scale interventions, Venice and the surrounding land will be able to sustain the influx of people while transporting locals to job locations and residential areas for years to come.

Punta Sabbioni

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Torcello

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Lido

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Venice

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Venice Lagoon- Land Use Concept

Increase economic base through commercial and industry

Preserve as farmland or open space

Increase residentiial and commercialexpand tourism

Maintain overalll existing character

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Venice lagoon Proposed Monorail Map

Monorail over the lagoon

Wayfinding to monorail

fireworks at the lido Train to the airport

VI C K E R y M E a D o W I M P R o V E M E N T D I S T R I C T

Vickery Meadow PID

VM TIF District

Premium Service Area

Existing Zoning Conditions

Existing Zoning

Retail

Multi-family

Institutional/Public

Vickery Meadow PID

VM TIf District

Premium Service area

Proposed land Uses

Retail (MU or MC)

Walkable Mixed Use: High

Walkable Mixed Use: Medium

Walkable Mixed Use: low

Walkable Urban Residential: High

Walkable Urban Residential: Medium

Walkable Urban Residential: low

Residential Transition District

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The Vickery Meadow Improvement District is an area bound by two Dallas area Rapid Transit rail stops, two major arterials, and a large, under-utilized park. The neighbor-hood is made up of a mosaic of nationalities. Clustered in various introverted apart-ment complexes, the neighborhood has quickly become a place of poverty and crime. The neighborhood association commissioned jHP architecture/Urban Design to create a study of the neighborhood which analyzes existing conditions, interprets de-mographic information, makes recommendations at district, node, and street scales, and offers an implementation strategy. The 150-page study is currently in review with the neighborhood association and will soon be passed along to the city of Dallas for further review. The graphics shown here are excerpts from the study analysis and rec-ommendations.

Current key forces in the five Points Neighborhood

five Points

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Park lane DaRT Station

New Mixed Use Construction

Proposed design of fair oaks ave, looking north Proposed design of Melody lane, looking east

Proposed design of Park lane, looking north Proposed design of Park lane, looking east

Walkable Mixed Use: High zone Street Section

Street lights every 25’ feet

Street Trees every 25’ feet

Concrete sidewalk

15’ 24’ 12’ 24’ 15’

60’-0” Right of Way

approximately 90’-0” building face to building face Existing Street Network

Proposed Street Network

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WMU: Medium

Ridgecrest Rd

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Vickery Meadow learning Center

Vickery Meadow learning Center site plan

BE N G a l S T R E E T Wa R E H o U S E S T U D y

Existing and adjacent land uses

Regional Context

Single-family Residential

Commercial

Multi-family Residential

Mixed-Use

Park

Industrial/Research

Institutional

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Cass St.

Maple ave

lake ave

Sylvester St.

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Rosewood ave

Production Dr.

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Denton Dr.

Hartford St.

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Parkland ave

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Proposed Parkland Hospital Expansion

Residential Neighborhood

Children’s Medical Center

Esperanza Hope Medrano Elementary

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Maria luna Park

Head Start at Socorro Gonzales

DaRT Green line

Site

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Trinity River

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Uptown

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Trinity Railway Express

Maple ave

The Bengal Street Warehouse PD is located west of downtown Dallas, adjacent to the new Parkland campus in the Southwestern Medical TIf district as well as the Stemmons Corridor. Crow Holdings and the Poole family Interest asked jHP to create a study of the Crow Warehouse and Bengal Street in Dallas, Tx for their future use in land devel-opment. The intent of the study was to graphically analyze and explain the existing conditions and future development characteristics of the Planned Development. This document serves as a reference for both the Bengal Street Warehouse Planned De-velopment and the greater neighborhood which includes a TIf district, a new hospital development, and the new Dallas area Rapid Transit rail line.

Medical District Drive, looking NW

property line

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20’ max. front

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30’ max. urban form

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Graphic Interpretation of PD 712: Street frontage

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Utilities and Infrastructure

55’ building height

85’ building height

105’ building height

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PD 712

Parkland Hospital Expansion

Parkland Hospital

Single-family Residential 7.5 (R-7.5)TownhouseResidential 3 (TH-3)Multi-familyResidential 2 (Mf-2)Multi-familyResidential 3 (Mf-3)

Mixed-Use 2 (MU-2)

Mixed-Use 3 (MU-3)

Industrial Research (IR)

General Retail (GR)

adjacent Zoning

area 1(Tract 1)

area 2(Tract 2)

Max 180’

14 stories

Max 120’

9 stories

Tract 2a

Max 36’4 stories

Building Height and Stories

aerial View of the Crow Warehouse PD and the greater Southwestern Medical TIf District

BR E a K I N G B o U N D a R I E S ; S U S Ta I N I N G S o C I a l N E T W o R K S

Group Master Plan

Existing Conditions Existing Conditions

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Neighborhoodnetwork

Special developmentstretches

City nodes

The Washington Park neighborhood, a severely under served community, once home to the Robert Taylor Homes, is the focus of this design. In a team of four urban design-ers at the University of Michigan, we were asked create and overall plan for infill and redevelopment of the square mile site. additionally, we broke off into individual work, focusing on a portion of the site of interest. The design for this focus area concept re-volves around intimate pathways and open spaces that are integrated into the block, leading from the southern and northern streets which acting as the concept bound-aries to Garfield Blvd. Each open space is programmed differently from the next and should serve the community. Examples of programming include community gardens, play areas, interactive sculpture gardens, and flower gardens. The street that lies half-way through each pathway system should be a mixed use street with retail and com-mercial activity catering towards serving the community. an emphasis on job training and education are of high priority within this area. It is through addressing everyday living and providing extensive training that this community will thrive economically and socially.

South Chicago local Context Plan

Photo-Rendering of Neighborhood Community Center

Photo-Rendering of Neighborhood Clean-Up

Block Elevation

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Community Garden

DiscoveryGarden

Green alley

Block Plan

Building Elevation of Typical Six-flat Residential Building

Interest area Master Plan Vignette Sketch of Community Center and open Space

Photo-Rendering of Church Parking lot that also Serves as a Basketball Court

DE C o N S T R U C T I N G a C I T y ; R E C o N S T R U C T I N G a C o M M U N I T y

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Social Dynamic: Educa-tion, Homeless, Religion

Municipal Dynamic: Civic, Public Transporta-tion, Healthcare

Cultural Dynamic: His-tory, art, Entertainment

Environmental Dynam-ic: food, open Space, agriculture

Water Storage

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Modular, Re-configurable Wall System over Metal Decking

with Metal fabric Reinforcement

Vertical Garden Growth Matrix

Vertical Irrigation System

Unit Section Building Section

View of the Elevated Urban Public Garden level

Deconstructing a City, Reconstructing a Community was jHP’s submission for the inter-national ReVision Dallas competition in the spring of 2009. Tasked to revision a 2.5 acre existing parking lot in the heart of downtown into a self sustaining core that brought life through a mix of housing, retail, and office, our team approached the site with an in-clusive approach. our project centered around the thesis that this was just one piece of the city and to really make a difference, the site must feed off the city as much as the city must feed off the site. We sought a development that embraces the com-munity and works with it to eliminate not just its own burden but that of the systems around. By way of physical, ecological, and social connections, the ReVision Dallas Community will help create a memorable environment, unique to this place and sus-tainable over time, bringing people together.

Project Perspective Unit Types

Single Room occupancy

1 Bedroom

2 Bedroom

Green 2 Bedroom

live/Work

3 Bedroom

Ga lV E S T o N H o U S I N G a U T H o R I T y S T U D y

Galveston RFQGalveston, Texas

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GALVESTON HOUSING AUTHORITY C o l u m b i a R e s i d e n t i a l

Copyright © JHP 2011Not for Regulatory Approval, Permit or Construction: RONALD E. HARWICKRegistered Architect of State of TX, Registration No. 7696

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Galveston RFQGalveston, Texas

04.25.2011 211999.08 js/mj/sl

GALVESTON HOUSING AUTHORITY C o l u m b i a R e s i d e n t i a l

Copyright © JHP 2011Not for Regulatory Approval, Permit or Construction: RONALD E. HARWICKRegistered Architect of State of TX, Registration No. 7696

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Cedar Terrace Rendered Site Plan

Density Study 1: Townhome, 32 Units Cedar Terrace Perspective Rendering

Density Study 2: Courtyard Buildings, 54 Units

Density Study 3: Mansion Buildings, 78 Units

3 floors over Parking

Garage

BloCK 3

BloCK 2

BloCK 1

The Galveston Housing authority commissioned jHP to create a series of housing densi-ty studies for three blocks. Currently, the blocks are home to several devastated hous-ing project buildings that have been neglected and severely damaged by the hurri-cane. jHP’s task was to provide various density studies that catered to both a general market, as well as senior, student, and accessible markets. In addition, space was to be set aside for a day care facility, a police station, and plenty of open space for the residents. on top of these programming demands, by Galveston code, all buildings must be several feet off the ground due to the site being in the flood plain. To maxi-mize the constraints on several of the options, we suggested parking tuck under the buildings to allow for more open space.

Customs House

Strand St

Magnolia Rendered Site Plan

Ship Mechanic Row St

Harborside Dr

2 floors over Parking

Garage

3 floors over Parking

Garage

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Density Study 4: apartment Buildings, 88 Units, Density Study 5: apartment Buildings, 142 Units,

AN N a R B o R f R o M a N E W a N G l E

Site Plan

Proposed Development

Retail

Residential

Institutional

3D View of New Public Plaza and City Hall in Downtown ann arbor

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Mixed-Use Building

after extensive recommendations from Calthorpe and associates, the City of ann arbor is ready to take the next steps for development. from this analysis, our University of Michigan studio task was to create a plan for a new city hall, courts, and a police station with adequate parking to accommodate these uses. We suggested plac-ing the city hall on the Brown Block, which is currently surface parking in the heart of downtown. a mixed use building located on the same block will help assist with the costs, while a diagonal path between the two buildings allows for an open space that will become an intimate place for leisure and dining. The diagonal path will link the retail and restaurant venues with the entertainment venues, which currently make up the downtown. Placing the City Hall and a mixed use building here will help extend the downtown off of Main Street and, in turn, create a downtown district as opposed to a single primary road, which will strengthen the overall quality of life in ann arbor.

Downtown ann arbor land Uses & Key Nodes

View of the Diagonal Path looking East

Materials Sketch for Mixed-Use Building

Materials Sketch for City Hall Building

UN I V E R S E P R o j E C T aT T H E U N I V E R S I T y o f U Ta H

Site Plan

3D Views of the Site

Rice Eccles Stadium

Stadium Plaza

Block a Garage

Block B GarageResidential

over Retail

Residential over Retail

Residential over Retail

Office over Grocery

Cinema over Retail

Station Plaza

TRax Station

The University of Utah is developing a transit-oriented development (ToD) on a prime 7.9-acre site at the southwest corner of the University of Utah campus, which currently houses game-day parking for the football stadium. jHP worked with the University and the community to deliver a high quality, mixed-use project called the Universe Project that includes commercial uses, housing, and public and student parking. The future development will create a vibrant campus center, associated commercial uses, and housing on the site.

Emergency and Service Circulation

Pedestrian Circulation Vehicular Circulation

Section B

Section a

aB

Grocery

Offices

RetailCinema

RetailRetail

Housing Housing

RetailRetail

HousingHousing Garage