Each year, CNU's Legacy Projects partners with our Congress host region to empower local leaders, advocates, and residents to implement New Urbanist principles and build places where people and businesses can thrive and prosper. Each Legacy Project culminates in a three-day workshop on site to explore opportunities, identify crucial roadblocks, engage local residents in visioning, and generate top-of-the-line design and placemaking strategies and deliverables.

Once host communities determine their own needs and areas of focus, CNU’s expert designers—national leaders in architecture, planning, placemaking, and revitalization—partner with local leaders and advocates to prepare the scope of work, host the on-site workshop, and create the final design deliverables. Those final documents are visual, engaging, strategic, and meant to be implemented immediately.

In February 2017, as part of CNU 25.Seattle, CNU will bring its Congress Legacy Projects to two Seattle-area communities: