AIA Design for Impact

GSMA took part in the AIA Designing for Impact charette organized by City of Houston Complete Communities initiative, HNOMA, and the JE:DI committee. GSMA worked with Sunnyside leaders, residents, planners, and developers to visualize the goals identified in Sunnyside’s complete communities’ report, to start the path toward actualizing these intentions.

GSMA proposed a phased economic enrichment plan for the community where its residents would be integral to the growing prosperity of the neighborhood. An evolution, starting with small-scale retail, inclusion of social gathering spaces would grow into a walkable mid-scale retail street edge that both gives form and identity to this historic neighborhood. The final vision of a central retail center would cement Sunnyside’s identity as the destination its residents dream of.