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<br />bbpc <br /> <br />Basile Baumann Prost Cole & Associates, Inc. <br />Public/Private Development Advisors <br /> <br />Associates is also currently undertaking an economic impact evaluation of a proposed people-mover in <br />Montgomery County, Maryland. <br /> <br />In these efforts, BBPC Associates has been retained to understand development potentials for various <br />uses around the stations, including assessments of market and financial feasibility. Also working closely <br />with citizen task forces, BBPC Associates provided plausible analyses which led to a consensus to <br />proceed with particular land use plans. <br /> <br />Baltimore, Maryland <br /> <br />The City of Baltimore has initiated a new rapid transit to complement its continued resurgence in center <br />City revitalization. With massive growth pressures being experienced in the Owings Mills' portion of <br />suburban Baltimore County as a result of transportation and shipping improvements, the County Office <br />of Planning and Zoning retained BBPC Associates to conduct a series of transit impact and development <br />programming assessments. As a result of BBPC Associates' guidance, a "town center" designation around <br />the transit station was proposed and approved as a master plan amendment to encourage joint <br />development in this area. BBPC Associates staff members previously evaluated potential at all stations on <br />the starter line as well as for a downtown people mover. <br /> <br />Atlanta, Georgia <br /> <br />The first major rapid transit system developed in the south was in Atlanta. Opportunities to capture <br />significant private investment to complement development of the transit station near the busy Atlanta <br />airport encouraged both public and private sector parties to retain BBPC Associates to assist in <br />investment decisions. <br /> <br />In Decatur, BBPC Associates assisted a prominent Texas developer (Gerald D. Hines Interests of <br />Houston) to investigate joint development potentials. In a project promoted as the premier joint <br />development project involving public and private development interests in a major southern city, the <br />Urban Mass Transit Administration sponsored the effort in part. BBPC Associates' development <br />program was unanimously approved by the City of Decatur in late 1980. <br /> <br />In East Point, BBPC Associates' predevelopment programming activities resulted in successful public <br />adoption of the Old Fourth Ward Redevelopment Plan in 1980. The plan centers on an inter-modal <br />transfer point composed of a below-grade subway connection to the planned private uses, a feeder bus <br />station and commuter parking facilities, <br /> <br />-4- <br />