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LOCAL RAPID RECOVERY PLAN The Internationally recognized Local Rapid Recovery Plan (LRRP) Program was a statewide project to revitalize downtowns, respond to the effects of COVID-19 on local businesses, and prioritize actions and strategies in 2021. Favermann Design worked on 11 of the 124 plans for cities and towns. It was focused on providing every municipality in Massachusetts the opportunity to develop actionable, project-based recovery plans tailored to the unique economic challenges and COVID-19 related impacts to downtowns, town centers, and commercial areas across the commonwealth. Back to MP/SP Back to HOME

Our Services Include: Community Planning DA Design Application and Compliance Equity, Diversity and Inclusionary Workshops Business Development Workshops Social Justice Event Planning SOCIAL EQUITY DESIGN AND PLANNING SERVICES Our Workshops & Professional Development Strategies: We work with clients and stakeholders to create an equitable process by design. In turn, we utilize creative public engagement strategies to reach historically under-represented groups and to inspire existing organizational hierarchies to follow equitable practices. We offer cultural efficacy workshops for planners, policymakers, and civic organizations. Our firm trains executive-level staff, managers, and employees to program and plan socially-sensitive project implementation and sustainable procedures. Back to MP/SP Back to HOME

HARVARD UNIVERSITY Over the last few decades, Harvard University has expanded its real estate holdings into the Boston neighborhood of Allston just across the Charles River from the traditional Harvard Campus. Favermann Design was enlisted to be part of a design and planning team to explore ways in which to connect the emerging Allston Campus with the Cambridge campus. Various transportation connections and directional communications systems were studied. Accessible and strategic mobility hubs were the focus of planning consideration. Back to MP/SP

EASTHAM REPORT This final report represents the types and varieties of studies, reviews and reports that Favermann Design completes for our clients. All of the completed investigations, plans or research for public clients is available online. Back to HOME Back to MP/SP

FLOATING LEAF Favermann Design has been involved in a number of design competitions over the years. Often, these are creative exercises to add to the urban fabric. An example of this firm practice is this proposal for a pavilion for the famous Swan Boats at Boston’s Public Garden, Additionally, there was a smaller structure designed to cover a functional stem pipe. Back to MP/SP Back to HOME

THE YORK SCULPTURES The York Sculptures were made by the English sculptor Sir Anthony Caro in the spring and summer of 1974 at York Steel Construction Ltd. in York, Ontario, just outside Toronto. Of the thirty-seven multi-ton pieces that Caro made at York, twenty-three were shown in this exhibition, which was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at the Christian Science Center Plaza. Favermann Design was involved in logistics, shipping between Canada and the US, site planning and sculpture placement. A master plan scale model was built prior to the outdoor exhibition. Back to MP/SP Back to HOME

Back to HOME MASTERPLAN 2020 Esplanade Vision 2020 was a masterplan for restoration and renewal of the over 100 year old linear park along the Charles River. Mark Favermann was one of the major authors of the award-winning study. Staff from Favermann Design spent two and a half intensive years working on this plan with 33 other architects, designers, engineers and planners. Back to MP/SP

1/4 "THE GARAGE" Brookline Teen Center Gateway Proposal Brookline, MA Capturing the history of the former garage where the teen center now sits, we have proposed giant "tools" as gate posts to underscore the notion of 'Tools for Life," social and community life skills learned at the center. A new complimentary sign will be installed as well. Back to Portfolio

NEWS Favermann Design has been designated as a Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE) by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. “The Birds of Audubon Circle,” part of the City of Boston’s Public Art Collection, was installed 20 years ago in 2005. 2025 was the 24th Season that Favermann Design has been a consultant to the Boston Red Sox. Mark Favermann received the Journalism and Communications Award for his decades of writing on the built environment and Public Art from the American Planning Association, Massachusetts Chapter in 2024. Mark Favermann was recognized by the Mass Cultural Council as a Creative Individual Artist for his sculpture. Please follow Mark Favermann’s sculpture portfolio at Instagram: markfavermann. ABOUT Favermann Design is a creative urban design practice specializing in human scale design solutions. We are heavily involved in strategic placemaking, graceful civic branding, vital streetscapes and functional public art. Our focus is on sense of place and sense of arrival translated into community imaging and applying it to identity, accessibility, streetscape enhancement, sustainability, social equity, public art and social media. Creating memorable places and sustainable spacesthrough the creation of community images and civic icons. We apply creative tools and methods to develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for our clients be they corporate, commercial, institutional or civic. Our staff brings a broad vision of urban design to each project while applying the specific details of architectural methodologies, experiential design approaches and urban design strategies. Our firm’s mantra is that community branding underscores a city, town or neighborhood’s essential character. We use our skills and experience to help create quality storefront and façade enhancement, unique wayfinding, beautiful, functional streetscapes and strategic public art to develop a sense of place along with the notion of a sense of arrival and shared visual and environmental experience. Also, we can tell an appealing story by illustrating complex ideas simply and creatively integrating a unique civic narrative into a strong community signature through inventive placemaking. OUR CREATIVE TEAM Our award-winning senior individuals include urban designers, graphic designers, industrial designers, transportation designers and urban planners. They are all highly skilled and expert in their specific areas of concentration. Each brings a highly refined set of technical and aesthetic tools to every project and commission. View PORTFOLIO

CITY OF EVERETT The City of Everett is going through a major revitalization. To underscore this, Favermann Design developed a best practices guidelines to storefront signs and façade improvements for city’s commercial districts. Working with the Community Development Director, the City Attorney and the Building Commissioner, our staff integrated the guidelines into the city of Everett’s Building Code. Back to MP/SP

Trail Signs: Acton and Concord For the towns of Acton and Concord, MA, Favermann Design recently completed a strategic branding and wayfinding system for the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail in the two nearby communities. It seamlessly connects the natural scenic areas with the adjacent commercial districts and points of interest. Up Home

COMMUNITY BRANDING Community Branding allows for enhancing the urban fabric. By adding visual quality and elegant function, it also fixes the holes and tears in the civic tapestry. The process of Community Branding emphasizes distinctiveness, projecting a positive image, while providing a shared sense of arrival and a sense of place. It allows people to be connected to not only location but to experience. More than simply an identity or image, Community Branding underscores the unique character and personality of a particular place as well as strategically informs creative placemaking. Reading Chelmsford Sturbridge Wells Brookline Wakefield Scituate Sunderland Clinton Ipswich Woburn Hudson Easthampton Wellesley Hull 1/1 Home