livingLAB has been having fun (especially when it isn't freezing...) making our way around the City of Detroit measuring potential sites for Bike Share stations!  The Downtown Detroit Partnership and Shift Transit plan to open Detroit's first public Bike Share Spring 2017. With 43 stations and 430

livingLAB's team, composed of Goody Clancy as prime consultant, Giffels Webster, and Zimmerman/Volk Associates with W-ZHA and Global Detroit serving as subs, was awarded the Southwest Detroit / West Vernor Corridor project by the City of Detroit.  The project's goal is to create a comprehensive nei

Proud to announce that livingLAB is now officially certified as a Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation's largest third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the US.

A LOT has happened since our original post about the Gainsboro Park project..... Construction is nearing completion for the linear park that stretches for nearly a half-mile along the eastern edge of Pleasant Ridge.  This will be the culmination of a 16-month planning, design, and construction

Progress is being made across the street from DTE Energy's Detroit Headquarters on Grand River Public Space. Steel is going up for the restaurant building anchoring the Cass Avenue and Grand River Avenue corner of the park. Look for continued updates as the project progresses toward a Summer 2017 op

Welcome Lauren Hoffman, ASLA to the livingLAB team! A life-long outdoorsman, Lauren has spent the past 7 years assessing and enhancing natural resources through design. Her assessment activities have included a myriad of survey and monitoring work including plants, pollinators, macroinvertebrates, t

livingLAB is proud to introduce our newest designer and  LABpartner, Kurt Hilton.  Kurt's diverse background and youthful ideals are a perfect fit for livingLAB's collaborative design studio.  His passion for social justice, architecture, history, and urban planning key together nicely with his u

Commerce Township is proud to open the new and improved Maple Glen Park and Sports Complex to the public.   The orange barrels and yellow tape that have blocked off one end of the park all season have been removed and the dirt has been swept away.  The completion of Phase One of the Park's Master

We received the nicest note from the City of Pleasant Ridge the morning after our 5-day mobileLAB: "I do want to convey our thanks for a really great, really successful mobileLAB event. I’ve gotten nothing but great feedback from everyone, and there’s real excitement about where we’re hea