For immediate release: April 11, 2006

Design Workshop names participants in 2006 Salt Lake City internship charrette

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — Planning and design firm Design Workshop, Inc., is pleased to announce the final selection of 15 of the nation’s top students for this summer’s internship and planning charrette, which will tackle downtown visioning for this city. The firm will lead the process in partnership with The Salt Lake Downtown Alliance, an affiliate of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. This year’s participants are named below, listed alphabetically by institution.

The 15 interns were chosen from among more than 250 applications by students in planning, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, real estate and business students. They will work together to formulate strategies for helping to revitalize a 40-block section of downtown Salt Lake City. Half the participants are currently working at the graduate level. The charrette, which will run from May 31 through June 10 at the firm’s Salt Lake City office, will culminate in presentations to local business stakeholders, government officials and the public. Each participant will then serve a 10-week internship in one of Design Workshop’s seven U.S. offices.

Salt Lake City lies at the center of the country’s most explosive growth region. It features unrivaled proximity of urban environs with national forests and open lands. It has one of the country’s most ambitious city-centered mass transit programs, including commuter rail and light-rail service. The downtown is also the target of both a significant rail-yard redevelopment proposal and a $500 million retail-driven redevelopment. Numerous studies have already been done on revitalization of downtown and these will serve as the basis for the interns’ efforts, as they help synthesize plans to help stakeholders create a holistic vision.

Founded in 1969, Design Workshop practices sustainable design and planning on sites ranging from urban infill, parks and open-space projects to brownfield redevelopment and resorts. The firm, which has seven offices in the United States, has received more than 90 awards for design and planning, including a 2003 Charter Award from the Congress for New Urbanism for its rail-yard conversion in downtown Denver. Since 1985, Design Workshop’s internship program has attracted gifted scholars of landscape architecture, architecture, urban design and planning from all over the world.