Stuart Street Lot Activation: Mobility Hub Pilot

Challenge

Stakeholders along Houston’s historic Emancipation Avenue corridor sought new approaches to improve mobility, activate underutilized land, and inform future commercial and transportation planning.

Strategic Response

Designed a grant-funded, live pilot activation to test multimodal mobility concepts, generate stakeholder insight, and catalyze public-private collaboration around corridor revitalization.

What We Did

• Designed and facilitated an immersive bike and mobility tour experience

• Engaged residents, business owners, and institutional partners

• Collected qualitative and quantitative feedback on transportation preferences

• Integrated cultural storytelling and place-based engagement

Impact

• Identified preferred transportation modes and mobility priorities

• Established ongoing public-private partnerships

• Generated planning insight to inform future corridor development and mobility investments

Signals of Credibility

• Grant award recipient

• 30+ stakeholders engaged

• 92% of participants open to future engagement

Services

• Community engagement

• Activation

• Visioning

• Neighborhood planning