Better Cities Film Festival 2023!
What do better cities look like? Let’s talk about it! The St Catharines Edition of the Better Cities Film Festival returns from Oct. 27th –...
From concept to completion, we’re with you through every stage of land development.
The development process is complicated, and we’re here to help. As a legacy developer interested in addressing social needs, while making a positive impact on the built environment, you recognize the importance design details have on place making—and how critical execution is to brand integrity.
Our team has the creative skills and experience to begin working with you at the early concept stage all the way through construction. We help you foster good relationships with municipalities, neighbours, and home buyers. In short? We believe in the importance of neighbourhoods and the people they serve.
Our firm offers a comprehensive service to the land development industry.
Specializing in urban infilling and intensification using New Urbanist principles, Better Neighbourhoods maximizes property value and return on investment. We only participate in projects that we believe will improve the surrounding neighbourhood, and offer services in everything from planning and urban design to development management and engineering.
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What do better cities look like? Let’s talk about it! The St Catharines Edition of the Better Cities Film Festival returns from Oct. 27th –...
We are proud to announce that our Certified Planning Technician, Mohammad Kamruzzaman, has been awarded with the 2019 Merit Award for Infill Design by the...
Whether we like it or not, the planning industry is surrounded by auto-dominated culture. Planners are in a constant battle with vehicle-oriented street design and...
Congratulations to our our Mohammad Kamruzzaman, recipient of the 2017 CACPT Infill Design Award. The Canadian Association of Certified Planning Technicians has recognized Mohammad for...
Village on the Twelve will be comprised of about 300 housing units within 16 Acres. The Concept Plan includes many forms of housing that cater...
We are excited to have been hired to work with Bayshore Group to design and develop the site of the vacant GM Factory in St....
On July 21st, 2016, Better Neighbourhoods is bringing together industry professionals from across the Niagara Region to a workshop regarding the future of urbanism in...
Detroit, as with many large US cities, is absent of residential life in its dowtown…but, there are signs of regeneration and life. All vacant buildings in the downtown...
We are back from Detroit, and our annual pilgrimage to the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU 24). As many know, Detroit, MI went bankrupt in July 2013....
As of October 1st, 2015, Glenn E. Barr Associates was renamed as Better Neighbourhoods Inc. Operating as Barr Associates, the company was originally founded in...
This year, we were recognized with two landmark awards at the 12th annual Niagara Community Design Awards! 2016 Winner for Small Scale Projects – 24...