Interboro Partners

09/11/2025

Interboro and Key Strategic Group led several pop up events in Vivian Astra Park, and Hickey Park in partnership with the City of St. Louis. It was a weekend full of fun engagement activities in the Baden and North Pointe neighborhoods in North St. Louis!

08/13/2025

The City Planning Commission has APPROVED the Jamaica Neighborhood Plan! 🎉

Interboro was the lead for community engagement for the Jamaica Neighborhood Plan. We designed a variety of engagement activities for the steering committee, working groups, and focus group meetings. These activities, both in-person and virtual, were developed to get feedback from as many people as possible, and to connect with audiences that are often marginalized or excluded from conventional planning and design processes.

The Jamaica Neighborhood Plan would update zoning to bring much-needed housing to Jamaica, Queens. The plan would create the largest mandatory inclusionary housing area in NYC, leading to 4,000 permanently-affordable, income-restricted homes.

07/15/2025

The Resource Expo
Midwest-Tireman Framework Plan
📍Equity Alliance, Detroit, MI

A variety of engagement tools and methods were used throughout the process in order to reach the widest audience possible, and to learn from a broad range of perspectives. For this Framework, resident needs and priorities are synthesized and paired with urban design analysis to form the building blocks of the recommendations. Some of the engagement tools included public meetings, steering committee meetings, focus groups, story booths, podcasts, interagency meetings, phone interviews and surveys, collaborative mapping, roleplaying activities, critical observation, and a resource expo.

The resource expo was a large component of the final public meeting inviting local businesses, nonprofits, farmers, and City agencies to set up tables and share resources and information with residents who attended the meeting.

07/10/2025

ZoneDetroit Engagement Activity
📍Detroit, MI

In 2019, the Detroit City Planning Commission (CPC) publicly launched ZoneDetroit, a multiyear process to comprehensively update Detroit’s outdated zoning ordinance. In order to foster meaningful conversations about zoning among the city’s diverse communities, CPC needed a tool for making zoning approachable and understandable for all, regardless of people’s prior knowledge or experience. Interboro responded by creating two simple, flexible, interactive, and educational tools that could be used in a wide variety of settings, from large public events to block club meetings to youth workshops: a board game (Game of Zones) intended to teach people about zoning, and a newsletter that presented our code revision recommendations in a colorful, fun, and easy-to-understand format.

07/09/2025

💭Our recent New York Forward Walkshop in Athens, NY

For many plans Interboro has worked on, we have organized topical listening tours. Our preferred approach is to see what issues emerge in early engagements, then organize tours around these issues (for example, flooding, housing, traffic calming, etc.). While these tours are typically led by consultants and city department leads, we may also look for a few local volunteers to act as tour guides. Local guides can provide an important insider’s perspective that would be difficult to glean from maps and data alone.

07/08/2025

Land Use Designation Explainers - St. Louis Strategic Land Use Plan (SLUP)

The land use designations are categories that are applied to each parcel of land in St. Louis. These designations help generally describe the future vision or aspiration for all of the types of areas within the city, describing what kinds of buildings, uses, and forms will be encouraged. Another way to put it is that the SLUP’s land use designations represent different “types of places” that we are trying to encourage throughout the city.

Each designation includes details such as encouraged uses, discouraged uses, and guidance on how land uses should connect to streets, sidewalks, and the public realm. The explainers provide more detail on each designation, their specific intensities, and the differences between them. The graphic above shares some explainer examples of the 16 different land use designations for St. Louis.

07/03/2025

07/02/2025

📍Baden-North Pointe, St. Louis
Neighborhood Sign Campaign
For this campaign, 27 vacant properties throughout Baden and North Pointe have been selected. All of these sites and buildings are currently owned by the Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) of the City of St. Louis. Each property has its own unique history and characteristics but also its own potential.

The LRA, established in 1971, is the oldest land bank in the United States. It is responsible for the stewardship and sale of previously abandoned and foreclosed properties. With programs designed to convert unoccupied properties back into productive use, the LRA strives to provide housing, attract new industries, add jobs for citizens, and grow tax revenues for the City of St. Louis.

Over the next few months, we hope you’ll watch out for these colorful signs throughout Baden and North Pointe. Each unique sign shares some information about the property and poses a question that has come up during the neighborhood planning process. If you visit the initiative website, you’ll find a link to a survey where you can respond to the questions on the signs. Every sign has a number that you can reference when responding.

www.planstl.com
PlanSTLBadenNorthPointe@gmail.com
(314) 717-1434

05/14/2025

Thank you AIA New York for the 2025 New Perspectives Award!! 🎉

Photo Credit: Samuel Lahoz/ Courtesy of AIA New York

02/20/2025

We are thrilled to share that Georgeen Theodore has been elevated to the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows! Congratulations 👏

02/03/2025

📢 Interboro Partners is looking to hire a full-time Junior Designer!!


This is a position with growth potential and opportunities for advancement in the firm. Our ideal applicant would be a highly organized, creative, outgoing “people person” with excellent visualization skills, familiarity with GIS, experience working at the urban scale, and a degree in architecture, urban design, or urban planning.


The Junior Designer’s responsibilities will include the following:

▪️ developing design and planning concepts at a various scales (regional, citywide, neighborhood, building/public space)
▪️ producing urban scale drawings, models, and maps
▪️ participating in meetings with clients, project partners and consultants, and other Interboro staff
▪️ organizing and participating in community outreach activities, and designing engagement materials for these activities
▪️ conducting site visits and other fieldwork
▪️ leading the production of reports and other public-facing materials
assisting with marketing efforts


Here are some additional details:

Regular working hours are from 9 am to 6 pm (including lunch and breaks) Monday through Friday. Work will generally be conducted in Interboro’s New York office at 196 State Street in Brooklyn, but remote work may be considered on a case-by-case basis, depending on project needs, scheduling, and health/safety protocols.

The salary range for this position is $50,000 – $80,0000, depending on experience.

Interboro will offer the following additional benefits:
▪️ Medical insurance plan (2/3 employer contribution)
▪️ Paid time off for eight federal holidays
▪️ Two additional weeks of paid time off (ten working days)
▪️ A 401k plan


Interboro is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.

Please send a CV and work samples to careers@interboropartners.com. Please include “Junior Designer Position” in the subject line.

06/27/2024

In partnership with the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship, we created a “Welcome Guide” for the African Community Center of Lowell (ACCL). The guide contains important resources about housing, healthcare, education, family services, and more for African immigrants and refugees in Lowell. All resources and services are available to all residents, regardless of immigration status, unless indicated otherwise.

To make this guide, we conducted eight focus groups with members of Lowell’s African community. Working with ACCL’s Executive Director Gordon Donkoh-Halm, we asked recent and not-so-recent arrivals some simple questions: What do you wish someone had told you when you first arrived in Lowell? What advice would you give someone who just moved to Lowell from abroad, either as a refugee or immigrant?

Moving and settling into Lowell can be an exciting, yet challenging step for New Americans. The guide is divided into four chapters to help recent arrivals in every stage of their settlement: Getting to Know Lowell, Arriving in Lowell, Growing in Lowell, and Playing in Lowell. Each chapter contains articles with information on how to ease their transition into Lowell.