The City of Greensboro hosted a design charrette from November 18-21, 2009 at the Event Center at Revolution Mill Studios in Greensboro North Carolina.
Neighborhood residents and property owners, City officials and staff, and all interested parties were encouraged to attend.
A charrette is a set time and location at which people involved in a design project can meet to work together on the project.
This charrette included several, short intense workshops aimed at developing a strategy for a vacant tract of land in the Charles B. Aycock Historic District known as Dunleith. Dunleith was the antebellum estate of prominent North Carolina Judge Robert P. Dick. Today, this six-plus acre tract is one of only a few large undeveloped sites remaining in center city. Urban designers from Duany Plater-Zyberk, a nationally recognized urban design firm, teamed up with Piedmont Community Design Forum to facilitate a charrette for the Dunleith site located on Chestnut Street in the Charles B. Aycock historic district. The charrette was made possible by a grant from the Marion Stedmon Covington Foundation.
The work generated strives to respect the special character of the neighborhood, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The design team employed cutting-edge urban design principles including "light imprint" development approaches and "green" building techniques in their discussions and approaches.
Information from the November 18, 2009 meeting
Information from the November 20, 2009 meeting