Plusurbia Design

Plusurbia was recently featured in the Key Biscayne Portal - Keybis in a piece covering the latest progress on The Shoreline, a proposed redesign of the Rickenbacker Causeway that would transform how people move to and from Key Biscayne.

The article highlights several of the key concepts our team has been developing alongside HDR Engineering and the Friends of The Underline, including a split-level viaduct that separates fast-moving traffic from pedestrians and cyclists, 160% more beach space below, and improved access to destinations like Virginia Key, Miami Marine Stadium, and MAST Academy.

This project reflects exactly the kind of work Plusurbia was built to do. Complex, context-driven, and rooted in the belief that great infrastructure should serve people first. The Shoreline is not just a transportation solution. It is an opportunity to create a more connected, walkable, and resilient corridor for the tens of thousands of people who use the causeway every day.

We believe that understanding a place and its context is critical in planning for the future. That means listening, analyzing, and designing with precision so that bold ideas can become implementable ones.

The feasibility study is underway, and the conversation is just getting started.
Read the full article and follow the progress: https://bit.ly/4uZXADy

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and the spaces we inhabit have more to do with how we feel than we often acknowledge.

Research consistently shows that access to green space, parks, and tree-lined streets has a measurable impact on mental health and wellbeing. Yet in many cities, these spaces are unevenly distributed, often absent in the neighborhoods that need them most.

Equitable access to green space is not a design preference. It is a public health necessity.

At Plusurbia, we believe great places begin and end with people, and that means designing cities where everyone has the space to breathe, slow down, and feel at home.

Proud to share that The Underline has recently reached a significant milestone, completing five miles of its 10-mile linear park and urban trail beneath Miami's Metrorail, connecting Brickell to Coconut Grove and Dadeland.

What began five years ago as a bold vision for how Miami could reclaim its public realm is now a living civic destination where mobility, recreation, culture, and community converge.

Plusurbia Principal and Founder Juan Mullerat, who serves on the Board of Directors of The Underline Conservancy, has been part of supporting this vision as it takes shape across Miami's neighborhoods. His work advancing walkable, connected, and inclusive urban environments reflects the same commitment that drives everything we do at Plusurbia: great places begin and end with people.

Five miles down. Five more to go.

Plusurbia was recently featured in the Boca Raton Tribune in a piece spotlighting the Nora District. The article specifically references our role in shaping the master plan alongside the City of West Palm Beach.

Districts like Nora don't happen by accident. They are the result of intentional planning that begins with a deep understanding of place, its patterns of daily life, and its cultural context. When that foundation is in place, it creates the conditions for operators who are equally intentional about their concepts to want to be part of what the place can become.

At Plusurbia, we believe the creation of great places begins and ends with people. That means listening and translating what we hear into environments where urban life can unfold naturally and where communities can genuinely thrive.

Nora is a living example of what that process produces.
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