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YARD to join panel at Racial Equity Summit

YARD’s Kevin Wright will be participating in a panel discussion at the St. Louis Racial Equity Summit on November 10th. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Together we Rise: The Power of Community’ and the panel discussion is titled ‘Transforming Neighborhoods through Resident-led Planning’.

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YARD to Keynote Regional Design Competition

YARD’s Kevin Wright will be delivering the keynote presentation at this year’s We Create community design competition in Springfield, Missouri. During the competition community members will come together to explore creative solutions to the many challenges facing the city.

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Join YARD at St. Louis Design Week

YARD’s Ed Sharrer will be joining a panel and workshop during this year’s St. Louis Design Week. The title of the session is Loutopia Panel & Play and will highlight the recent activation of DUC Park. This example will illustrate how design and creativity can shape our shared public spaces!

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Join YARD at this year's Ohio CDC Association conference!

YARD’s Daniella Beltran will be joining a panel at this year’s Ohio Community Development Corporation Association’s annual conference. The session is all about what racial equity looks like in community development and will be available both virtually and in person.

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Join YARD at this year's Congress for New Urbanism

Join YARD & Company at this year’s Congress for the New Urbanism in Oklahoma City. This year, YARD will be presenting its Legacy Project results from Tulsa and YARD urban designer Daniella Beltran will be sharing our Personality of Place approach to engagement and district master planning.

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Join YARD at APA Pennsylvania!

YARD Principals Joe Nickol and Kevin Wright will be presenting in two sessions at the Pennsylvania APA Conference in October. The first session will be a mobile workshop of YARD’s street calming demonstration project in Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington. The second session will be focused on YARD’s Adaptive Place Toolkit.

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Join YARD at Walk Bike Places this week

YARD Principal Joe Nickol will be joining recent project collaborators at the Project for Public Spaces’ Walk Bike Place Conference later this week. The panel will explore key take aways and lessons from the award winning Open Norfolk initiative and the Baltimore Design for Distancing Guidebook.

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YARD to lead ULI Workshop on Adaptive Place Toolkit

YARD Principal Joe Nickol leads a discussion with Urban Land Institutes Oklahoma to share YARD’s experience helping business districts create new connections and safe activity while spatial distancing.

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YARD to join panel at Michigan Municipal League Convention

YARD Principal Joe Nickol joins a panel at the Michigan Municipal League’s annual convention to share YARD’s experience helping business districts safely reopen and adapt to the new normal.

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YARD to lead ULI Workshop on Placemaking while Spatial Distancing

YARD Principal Joe Nickol leads a discussion with Urban Land Institutes Oklahoma to share YARD’s experience helping business districts create new connections and safe activity while spatial distancing.

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YARD joins 2 panels at Walk Bike Places Conference

YARD Principals Kevin Wright and Joe Nickol join two panels at the Project for Public Spaces’ Walk Bike Place Conference to share how YARD’s Demand Discovery approach inclusively shapes neighborhood commercial districts and multi-modal streets.

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YARD leads ULI event on Engagement and Reopening with Spatial Distancing

YARD Principals Kevin Wright and Joe Nickol will lead a ULI event to share tactics that tie together immersive and inclusive public engagement with reopening strategies amidst the spatial distancing requirements of COVID 19.

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