Hosted at the Center for Architecture in New York City, this workshop convened planners, designers, advocates and community leaders to reframe the Cross Bronx Expressway as a site of healing, investment and structural repair. Co-organized by ORG, the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization and Felixx Landscape Architects, the event marked the beginning of a collaborative concept action plan for the corridor’s transformation.

The evening opened with context-setting remarks by Lance Jay Brown, President of the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization and longtime advocate for equitable urban design, who underscored the historical legacy of the expressway and the broader systemic impacts of infrastructure-driven displacement. Presentations followed on the corridor’s environmental and mobility challenges, alongside reference projects including the capping of Antwerp’s Ring Road (ORG), studio research from CCNY and Hunter College, and landscape frameworks from Felixx.

Attendees then broke into three concurrent roundtables, Why, Who and How to map out values, coalitions and implementation strategies. Discussions surfaced priorities around air quality, equitable mobility, community governance and the need for planning processes that repair exclusion and displacement.

Framed as both a coalition-building exercise and a foundation for future action, the workshop laid the groundwork for sustained engagement and scenario development aligned with the federal Reconnecting Communities initiative.