Browsing Technical Reports, Community Design Assistance Center by Issue Date
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Design Guidelines for Downtown Narrows
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 1993-12-31)Similar to many communities across the country, the town of Narrows' Commercial District has been experiencing economic and physical decline for quite some time. A recent survey suggests that over half of all commercial, ... -
Main Street Buchanan: Vision and Design Guidelines
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 1995-04-07)Managing design changes is an integral part of preserving Buchanan's identity. By understanding the value of a Town's historic and cultural resources rehabilitation and new projects can reinforce important qualities of the ... -
The Design of Victoria Community Park, Victoria, VA
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 1998-04)The Community Design Assistance Center (CDAC) was hired by the Town of Victoria, to develop a conceptual master plan, planting plan, and cost estimates for the design of a community park. This project was funded through a ... -
Whitmell P. Tunstall Park: Conceptual Park Design & Landscape Master Plan for a Brownfield Restoration
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2003-10)The purpose of this project was to develop a conceptual master plan and landscape design that incorporates a trail linkage at the edge of the property and develops the brownfield site into a wildlife habitat for passive ... -
Conceptual Site Master Plan and Focus Design for a Turn of the Century Community at the Historic Crab Orchard Museum, Tazewell, VA
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2003-10)Named for the National Register of Historic Places site on which it is located, the Crab Orchard Museum and Pioneer Park opened in 1982 as a non-profit historical museum devoted initially to Tazewell County. The museum is ... -
A Conceptual Master Plan for the Bedford YMCA, Bedford, Virginia
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2003-11)The Community Design Assistance Center (CDAC) worked with the Bedford Area YMCA to develop a conceptual site master plan for their current and future facilities. The Bedford Area YMCA is currently located on nearly 30 acres ... -
Grottoes, VA: Conceptual Open Space Master Plan and Entrance Design
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2003-12)The Community Design Assistance Center (CDAC) worked with the town of Grottoes to create entryway designs for the primary entries to town as well as Sixth Street, which serves as the town’s “Main Street.” CDAC also prepared ... -
A Conceptual Master Plan for Dickenson Memorial Park
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2004-01)Located about 20 miles south of Fredericksburg, Bowling Green has been the County seat of Caroline County since 1803. The community of about 1,000 is rich in history which is evident from its many historic structures. The ... -
North Fork Powell River greenway
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2004-01-01)The Community Design Assistance Center assisted Pennington Gap in designing a greenway trail that runs along the North Fork of the Powell River from Route 58, where it enters the town limits, to Leeman Field, the recreation ... -
Halifax, VA: Keziah Walker Neighborhood Garden Conceptual Master Plan
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2004-09)The purpose of this project was to work with the Hedderly Street neighborhood in the Town of Halifax to create a neighborhood garden design for a .43 acre parcel of land. -
Conceptual Design for the Expansion of the Salem Museum
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2004-10)The Salem Museum, located in the historic Williams-Brown House/Store in Salem, Virginia, was in need of an expansion to improve the public and operational spaces as well as to bring the museum into compliance with ADA ... -
Tekoa Boys' Home Campus Master Plan and Courtyard Design
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2004-10)Tekoa Boys’ Home is a recently constructed facility in Christiansburg, Virginia that provides licensed residential treatment, counseling, and special education to at-risk boys aged 12-17, in need of out-of-the-home placement. ... -
Median Planting Plan Staunton I-81/Route 250
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2004-12)City developed and began implementation of a landscape master plan. This included all entryways into the city and the greenspaces within. The master plan is geared toward creating a sense of color and continuity. The ... -
Jubilee Park: A Conceptual Master Plan Prepared for the Ivanhoe Civic League
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2005-08)Ivanhoe is a small, rural community located in Southwest Virginia near Cripple Creek, which enters the New River in the Blue Ridge Mountains. After using a Wythe County property as park space for nearly a decade and a half, ... -
Abingdon Elementary School Discovery Trail
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2006-02)Outdoor classrooms are fast becoming a popular installation at public and private elementary, intermediate, and high schools across the country. The idea behind an outdoor classroom is to bring the classroom learning into ... -
Poquoson Great Marsh Experience Trail
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2006-04)The Poquoson Museum project is the realization of a dream conceived by numerous community residents who wished to preserve Poquoson’s unique heritage. The museum purchased a 15 acre farm, the Dryden Farm, and salt marsh ... -
Danville North Main Community Plaza Conceptual Master Plan
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2006-04)The North Main neighborhood is one of the oldest in the City of Danville. The neighborhood is largely residential, with several pockets of small scale retail and service activities located primarily along the Main Street ... -
"A" Street Linear Park
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2006-05)The proposed “A” Street Linear Park is located in Abingdon, Virginia on a narrow 3.5 acre strip of land adjacent to the Norfolk Southern rail line and “A” Street. The purpose of this project was to develop a park design ... -
Christiansburg - Blacksburg Rotary Rain Garden at Wong Park
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Buchanan County Public Library Conceptual Landscape Redevelopment
(Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2006-05)Located in rural southwest Virginia in the county seat of Grundy, off of State Route 460 on the Levisa Fork River, is the Buchanan County Public Library, which serves the county’s population of 27,000. The library is not ...
