Studio Cascade, Inc.

Helping communities dream, design and plan better futures. Loving every minute of it.

“Radical common-sense”

We're more impressed with how things in Portland, Oregon are shaping up each time we visit, from the diversity and vitality of close-in neighborhoods, to the city's transit options and high levels of pedestrian and bike use, to how well rehab areas like the Pearl District are growing, to...well, a ...

Land use and service cost relationships

A recent e-mail exchange between SCI and Dan Burden of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute led to some interesting data produced for Sarasota County, Florida – data which shows per-acre property tax revenue is far higher for compact, mixed urban development than low-density, sprawl development. While findings like that aren’t much of ...

June 1st, 2012
Tags: Events, Urban Design

Waterfront plan wins AIA Civic Design Award

On May 31, the SCI-led Port Angeles’ waterfront plan received another award, this time from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The distinction was given as part of the AIA’s annual Civic Design Awards program, which recognizes publicly funded projects that demonstrate excellence on the part the client as well as ...
May 11th, 2012
Tags: Subarea Plans

Manhattan Village plan adopted

At their regular meeting on Tuesday, May 8th, the Normandy Park City Council adopted its new plan for the "Manhattan Village" subarea, developed by Studio Cascade. The vote was a major milestone in that city's efforts to revitalize the second of its two commercially-zoned areas, helping shore up revenue streams and ...
February 1st, 2012
Tags: Media, Publications

SCI covered in Spokane Journal of Business

Studio Cascade's successes with projects and APA awards recently caught the eye of Spokane's Journal of Business, the oldest and largest such publication in the Inland Northwest. A sizable article about SCI was published in the Real Estate and Construction section of the Journal's January 19th issue. The article covers Studio Cascade's ...