Clarkson Estates Development to Bring Affordable Housing, Parking, Basketball to PLG

The Brownstoner reports on plans for the Clarkson Estates, a new affordable and supportive housing complex planned for Brooklyn’s Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood. With landscape design to be led by Starr Whitehouse, the development will bring new housing options and a hub of social and community services to an underserved section of the borough.

Good reviews in the local press are a sign that a project is off to a good start! The Gossips of Rivertown blog — a Hudson, NY staple — gives an overview of Starr Whitehouse’s presentation to the local DRI committee, as well as the first socially-distanced community meeting to discuss the reconstruction of Hudson’s historic Promenade Hill Park, the oldest public park in the United States. Led by Principal Gail Wittwer-Laird out of our new Hudson branch office and guided by the park’s original design vision, Starr Whitehouse will be revitalizing plantings, designing plaza improvements to allow a broader range of programming, and making the park’s iconic promenade accessible to all.

With art museums shuttered across the world, art historian Alex Kitnick reflects on how the Irish Hunger Memorial and other public art in Lower Manhattan mirrors the challenges and complexities of our time in the July/August 2020 issue of Artforum.

Landscape Architecture Magazine quotes Laura Starr and principals across the country on how COVID-19 is impacting project pipelines and office workflow.

The Broadsheet covers the groundbreaking of the The Battery PlayScape.

6sqft covers the groundbreaking and posts some of Starr Whitehouse and BKSK‘s renderings of the upcoming Battery PlayScape.

Starr Whitehouse is excited to have the ASLA-NY honor four of our projects with awards this year: an honor award for Southwest Park, and merit awards for The Battery PlayScape, East 92nd Street Bonus Plaza, and A Vision for a Resilient East Harlem. A warm thank you to the awards committee, and to all our wonderful clients, collaborators, and staff who worked tirelessly to make these projects happen! Read the ASLA’s press release here.

Italian landscape architecture publication paysage.it features StuyTown Fitness Park in the 38th issue of their print magazine, Topscape.

Urban Land Magazine reports on the process and findings of the ULI Open Space Advisory Panel chaired by Stephen Whitehouse the week of October 14th in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Stephen Whitehouse is quoted by Bisnow as he prepares to head the Urban Land Institute’s advisory panel in Fort Lauderdale. Leading the group of land use and planning experts from AECOM, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, CORE Architecture, and others, Stephen and the panel are tasked with developing a new vision for Huizenga Plaza, a small downtown park on Fort Lauderdale’s New River.