Lower Manhattan Climate Resilience Study
Location
Client
New York City Economic Development Corporation
New York City Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency
Services
- Urban & Regional Planning
Collaborators
- AECOM
- HR&A Advisors
- BIG
- One Architecture
Year
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JLP+D served on a core team of advisors to New York City Economic Development Corporation and to prepare the Lower Manhattan Climate Resilience Study, designed to promote resiliency—coastal resiliency, energy/utility resiliency, greater mobility and connectivity, enhanced civic and open space, and economic competitiveness.
Image credit: NYCEDC
JLP+D served as the strategic advisor to the City and team, assessing underlying stresses facing Lower Manhattan, identifying suitable locations and ranges of development density within the study area that would provide sources of funding for resiliency investment and create much needed new housing, public open space and infrastructure improvements.
Stakeholder engagement was a critical path to exploring what obstacles and opportunities existed, and how these might inform the strategic plan. JLP+D engaged most of the major commercial property owners and office tenants in flood vulnerable properties whose feedback was vital in the creation of design solutions and implementation strategies.
JLP+D’s analysis informed the development of the strategic plan, based on which the City is currently carrying out additional study, including a master plan.
