Adaptive & Restorative Development
Adaptive and Restorative development are complementary processes for repurposing underutilized or decommissioned infrastructure and environments to create new value.
Development
At its core, Adaptive Development centers on the infrastructural, environmental, social, and economic relationship of people to place. It’s a human-centered approach that adapts neighbouring commercial and civic properties and the recreational, educational, food and entertainment potential they enable to enhance the lived experience.
- Human-centered
- Market based mixed-use
- Architectural integrity
- Site integration
- Restorative development
Adaptive at Work
The Bradshaw Lofts was an underutilized commercial warehouse reimagined as a mixed-use hospitality and educational space that partnered with the University of Waterloo's Digital Media campus in Stratford to couple premium accommodations for its students with the Bradshaw condominium, hotel, and Airbnb experience.
Development
As a single point of contact for communities and corporations looking for infrastructure revaluation solutions, we leverage our experience leading restorative development teams to provide long-term socio-economic gains.
Decommissioning industrial or institutional infrastructure is a challenge for both the corporations or organizations that own them and the communities formally employed by them. Within that challenge is an opportunity to reimagine and reconnect infrastructural components back into the working economy and the jobs they create.
- Community engagement
- Controlled transfer of liability
- Brownfield remediation
- Resource and opportunity mapping
- Adaptive Development
Restorative at Work
Working in partnership with the City of Thorold and HOPA, the Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority, Bioveld Canada (a BMI company) purchased the 200-acre former paper mill along the Welland canal to repurpose as a networked multimodal hub with commercial space for large-scale tenant build-outs.
A partner perspective.
“I have been impressed in my work with BMI”
BMI strives to see a bigger picture surrounding each project. The combination of initiatives that BMI brings to the table creates the opportunity for high-quality integrated development, which is sensitive to and benefits the local context.
A partner perspective.
“I have been impressed in my work with BMI”
BMI strives to see a bigger picture surrounding each project. The combination of initiatives that BMI brings to the table creates the opportunity for high-quality integrated development, which is sensitive to and benefits the local context.
Connect
All projects start with a conversation. Feel free to message us here or contact us directly.