Guest Lecture for Gresham Smith
Building Communities One Project Site at a Time: In Conversation with Amanda Popken on the Role of Architects and Engineers with...
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Popken PopUps
& Community Engagement
We've changed our name - Popken Development is now Popken PopUps!
amandapopken
- Jun 29
- 1 min
Incentivizing Mode Shift: the Try Parking It App
Over two weeks, the Popken PopUp team hosted a popup "Commuter Coffee Bar" experience for Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) train riders...
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amandapopken
- Jun 8
- 1 min
Trail Business Sites & Placemaking Opportunities for DFW's newest Trail, Discovery Trail
Along with naming and branding for DFW's newest trail, our Alta-led team was asked to recommend placemaking and economic development...
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amandapopken
- Jan 3
- 1 min
Hello 2023: We're Rebranding!
Popken Development is becoming Popken PopUps - same great team, same services, same logo, new adorable name. We're also launching a new...
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amandapopken
- Dec 1, 2022
- 1 min
Place Type Zoning for Taylor, Tx
After completing the update to their comprehensive plan, Envision Taylor, city leaders knew they needed to update their zoning to match...
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amandapopken
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Jeff Speck Speaks to Transpo Experts in Uptown
The most walkable neighborhood in Dallas is undergoing a major transformation, with the two-way conversion of McKinney Ave and Cole Ave...
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amandapopken
- Jan 21, 2022
- 1 min
Branding the Fort Worth to Dallas Hike & Bike Trail
There's a new trail in town, spanning 5 cities in DFW! It's fully funded and designed but while the last few segments of this 65 mile...
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amandapopken
- Jul 28, 2021
- 1 min
Reverchon Ballfield Restoration
The City of Dallas is restoring the historic Reverchon Ballfield as it approaches 100 years old, to add some polish and make sure it...
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amandapopken
- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
A Plan for Bandera, Cowboy Capital of the World
Simplecity Design is changing the way a city's Comprehensive Plan set the course of growth and development. Not only will the plan for...
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amandapopken
- Jul 30, 2020
- 2 min
Our Commitment to Diversity & Sustainability
Begins with the understanding that our world and our experience in it has been designed to get the results we experience in our everyday...
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amandapopken
- Jun 9, 2020
- 1 min
Dallas Slow Streets Pilot Now Accepting First 10 Applications
In response to COVID-19, the City of Dallas is announcing a pilot grogram called Dallas Slow Streets. The program allows neighbors to...
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amandapopken
- May 6, 2020
- 3 min
City of Dallas Gets the First Permanent Parklet in DFW, A Pilot for a New Program
The first permanent parklet in Dallas, to be installed at Veracruz Cafe in the Bishop Arts District. Parklets may soon be popping up in...
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amandapopken
- May 5, 2020
- 1 min
A Conversation on Active Towns
With this strange world of COVID-19 and Stay at Home Orders across the country, a conversation with John Simmerman of Active Towns is...
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amandapopken
- Jan 23, 2020
- 2 min
Try Parking It & Save!
The transportation demand app, Try Parking It, is North Texas’ proimary resource for alternative transportation commuting and ride-share...
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amandapopken
- Jul 9, 2019
- 3 min
DSGN Designs a New Dallas Library for Vickery Meadow
As the City of Dallas prepared to design its newest library, they knew that community outreach & buy-in would be critical. Years before,...
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amandapopken
- Jun 20, 2019
- 1 min
Placemaking for the Win! Workshop with Keep Texas Beautiful
At the Keep Texas Beautiful 2019 conference, we lead a workshop to talk Placemaking: how projects can create a welcoming neighborhood, spur
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amandapopken
- Jun 3, 2019
- 1 min
Placemaking in Downtown Plano
We took over a parking space to design a gathering space for the StrongTowns Regional Gathering and to talk bicycle parking with Downtown Pl
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amandapopken
- Aug 24, 2018
- 2 min
AP Development Wins Grant for Bike Parking Prototype
The North Central Texas Council of Governments announced awardees for their Green, Blue, Grey Grant program today and AP Development made...
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amandapopken
- Jun 11, 2018
- 2 min
Bark & Brew Arlington Talks Placemaking
Arlington, Tx is known to many as the largest city without a public transportation system. Nestled between Dallas and Fort Worth, it's a...
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amandapopken
- Mar 1, 2018
- 2 min
The Decorative Sidewalks of Prague
If one were constructing a monument to their fame, fortune, or success in business in the most important city in the Holy Roman Empire, perh
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