The West 25th Street Transit-Oriented Development Plan (TOD) provides a strategy for making Cleveland’s Regional Transit Authority’s (RTA) W. 25th Street Station more connected to the Market District neighborhood in Cleveland’s Ohio City district. Connections occur through land use modifications, a revised transportation network, bicycle and pedestrian access, new streetscape and gateway treatments and station [...]
Edgewood Trace is a new, master-planned community in Pepper Pike, Ohio. Dimit worked closely with the developers and the City of Pepper Pike Architectural Review Board to create the new townhome community that meets high design standards and delivers a new type of housing product for the city. Connected to Pepper Pike’s Birchwood Conservatory, Edgewood Trace [...]
The historic East Madison Avenue-Birdtown sector of Lakewood, Ohio is one of many unique and vibrant neighborhoods in this lakefront community. The evolution of "Birdtown" was closely linked to the growth of the Union Carbide factory, originally located on the current Graf Tech site at Madison Avenue and W. 117th Street, which began manufacturing at [...]
This master planning effort helped establish preliminary civic goals for a phased renovation of the downtown center of Independence, Ohio. The first phase outlined concepts for reinforcing the identity of the overlooked “Western Reserve” historic central square of the town. In the second phase, options for housing the town’s growing elderly population were explored, through [...]