Planning South Shore Central: The ROMA Report

2000 study of redeveloping the South Shore was a good first effort

"...In 2000, ROMA Design Group worked with a citizen task force, the..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Design Advocacy Voices: Austin

"...We invited design and planning professionals (and city representatives) to take a..."

June 27, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

RG4N's 11th-Hour Gamble

RG4n wants a third party to reconcile their Northcross plans with the developer's.

"...Concordia campus, which languished between neighbors and developer until ROMA Design Group worked out mutually agreeable details for the..."

March 27, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Developing Stories

The Concordia redevelopment highlights the need for the city to do more than plan from the dais

"...Neighborhood Association wants less height and density, and a better-designed project, than the developer had proposed. Despite regular meetings..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Beside the Point

The downtown plan moves forward, but the direction is a little uncertain

"...and financing but also the urban aesthete's concerns of design and the new buzzword de rigueur, "iconic preservation," the..."

Oct. 13, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

What Should Happen Along Waller Creek?

Public Planning Workshop May 13

"...ROMA Austin is ready to share its initial work on..."

May 12, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

City Council Notebook

What's up for Thursday?

"...it's Rich Oppel … Item 16: $250,000 more to ROMA Design Group to transit plan-up their Downtown designs. I'll..."

Feb. 27, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Building From Scratch

It Takes a City and a State to Raise a Village

"...vision into an actual master plan -- San Francisco-based Roma Design Group, specifically its principal Jim Adams -- know..."

Feb. 19, 1999 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

On the Waterfront

As development accelerates along Town Lake, Austin faces urgent choices

"...ROMA Design Group, the city's favored urban planners, duly labored..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Concord – At Last

Up from the muck at Concordia

"...signed off on a deal negotiated between an investment group seeking to redevelop Concordia University's 22-acre central campus and..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

From Runways to Sidewalks

The Mueller neighborhood at midcourse

"...its success so far rests with both the project's design and the enthusiasm of its residents. The prospect of..."

Aug. 9, 2013 News Feature by Robyn Ross

The Downtown Austin Plan

The city unveils its Downtown Plan in progress

"...and now being executed by the Austin office of ROMA Design Group. Early concepts and soft recommendations developed in..."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Where Are They Now?

The latest on this year's big digs

"...existing building on Congress. It has retained Southwest Strategies Group to find a new space and real estate attorney..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Mulling Over Mueller

"...troops that include PR specialists, infrastructure experts, and urban designers. The heaviest lifting, though, will be done by the..."

Oct. 31, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

With Minimal Drama, Saltillo Project Lurches Forward

Capital Metro hires a planner and appoints community advisors for the rail-yard redevelopment

"...unanimously approved a contract worth $298,200 with San Francisco-based ROMA Design Group to master-plan Cap Metro's 11-acre parcel between..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Can This District Be Saved?

The revival of the Warehouse District is rooted in Austin's history – and its popularity is also its peril

"...for redevelopment as, respectively, a Westin Hotel (to be designed by Lake|Flato Architects) and Gables Republic Park, a 16-story..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories

Two downtown projects uneasily launched

"...developer Andrews Urban LLC and its Atlanta-based partner Novare Group to "assist in the development" of a new Downtown..."

Oct. 13, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

Council approves the to-be-redesigned Gotham on second reading; the Chestnut neighborhood plan becomes the first to win zoning changes from the council.

"..."The old design has been totally scrapped," says Sarah Crocker of Sarah..."

Sept. 1, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Prepare for Departure

Mueller Airport Redevelopment Project Inches Toward Council Approval

"...will in August be presented by its appointed consultants, Roma Design Group of San Francisco, with a final draft..."

June 30, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Who Will Rule Mueller?

Can the city keep the Mueller redevelopment project on course?

"...been the dominant stakeholders in Mueller redevelopment, by both design and default, since before the beginning of the current..."

Jan. 25, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

After months of litigation over who owns what portion of the Sand Beach Reserve on Town Lake, Lumbermen's Development Corp. has offered the city a deal. Also: the council discusses a settlement with Stratus properties over development on their land over the aquifer, and the city amends the camping ordinance.

"...that drew up the Master Plan -- San Francisco-based Roma Design Group -- never consulted the committee on the..."

Oct. 6, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Naked City

Rethinking Robert Mueller

"...Or maybe more. City staff have invited the consultants, Roma Design Group of San Francisco, to come back in..."

Sept. 17, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

This Land Is Our Land

News From the Fronts of State-City Land War

"...and NTP may be clearly preferable as an urban design, but how will it reduce the negative impact of..."

April 24, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

RomaDesign Group prepares to present its revised redevelopment plan for Robert Mueller Airport to theCity Council; now the ex-airport just needs some tenants.

"...Mueller redevelopment. For more than two years, San Francisco-based Roma Design Group has been master-planning, then master-replanning, the site,..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin

"...Austin, the City Planning Capital of the World, street design tends to fly under the radar of general interest...."

Feb. 16, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Naked City

Interim uses for Mueller Airport now include film production facilities, in addition to the city departments that have already relocated there temporarily from downtown.

"...the neighbors, the city, the official RMMA Redevelopment Advisory Group appointed by the City Council, and the city's consultants,..."

Dec. 10, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Four for Seaholm

"...The Seaholm District Master Plan crafted by ROMA Design Group was adopted by the city in 2000..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature

You Call This a Plan?

Seaholm District Master Plan Morphs Into the Lumbermen's Tract Subsidy Program

"...ambitious, two-year undertaking of city planners and the respected ROMA Design Group of San Francisco. (ROMA also drafted the..."

June 14, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Here Comes the Neighborhood

Capital Metro, City Hall, and Eastside neighbors come together to share their hopes -- and fears -- for the Saltillo corridor.

"...it's been waiting for, or destroy the neighborhood forever?Of ROMA and Rivalry In July, Cap Metro's board of directors..."

June 27, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Council Watch

Council approves spending $15 million on the Convention Center Hotel; City Manager Jesus Garza presents the Draft Policy Budget; and Roma Design Group announces its vision for the south shore of Town Lake.

"...The Roma Design Group presented their vision of the south shore..."

July 7, 2000 News Column by Kevin Fullerton

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