Live at ccac.org/pathtothecap

Most of the projects I’m working on won’t be public for a couple years. This makes it all the more special that I can not only share the work I did with the CCAC, but that they published it on their own site!

Chicago Central Area Committee (CCAC) is a think tank pitching the city government on building a freeway cap - a bridge over one of the city’s highways, atop which a community park or retail courtyard could be built. With hundreds of possible locations and stakeholders who prioritize very different things - equity, pedestrian safety, construction feasibility - they needed a way to explore those tradeoffs intuitively and in real time.

I built a browser-based analytics engine that lets users pick and weight the factors that matter to them, then instantly scores every stretch of freeway in the city so they can see the ideal location given their objectives. The analytics engine is now live on the CCAC website for use by planners and community members alike.

This was one of my first projects at Arcadis. I’ve since adapted the site selection framework I built here to a host of other projects, from datacenters to transit stations, where millions of parcels are being analyzed and billions of dollars are being invested. Trying to contribute to the built environment in an intelligent way. We’ll see how we do!

Thank you to Neil Reindel and Andrew Broderick from Perkins&Will, Mark Hopkins from CCAC, and the rest of the Path to the Cap team for pursuing such an ambitious and worthwhile project in the City with the Big Bean. Special thanks to Jack Maison from CCAC for helping to deploy the project on the CCAC site. Cheers!