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

The west side of downtown Detroit, mostly surface lots and little-used buildings, will soon see one derelict lot transformed into an oasis of green space aiming to mirror the thriving scene at Campus Martius. The park would also include a restaurant and bar that could be expanded by attaching ten

Wrapping up our Connecting Lenawee Non-Motorized mobileLAB with an Open House to discuss action items to make the county more bike and walk friendly.

It has been a year and a half since we were sketching concepts to transform this brownfield into a community amenity alongside stakeholders and the community in Flint, Michigan. This simple sidewalk is just the beginning of the built ecosystem and public park that will emerge. We are beyond excit