Richard Meier & Partners has completed 3 new mixed-use buildings as part of their ?Teachers Village? master plan in downtown Newark, New Jersey. The development, led by RBH Group, centers around two Charter Schools completed by Meier & Partners in 2013, to provide a variety of retail spaces and 123 residential units marketed specifically at teachers.

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Richard Meier & Partners has completed 3 new mixed-use buildings as part of their ?Teachers Village? master plan in downtown Newark, New Jersey. The development, led by RBH Group, centers around two Charter Schools completed by Meier & Partners in 2013, to provide a variety of retail spaces and 123 residential units marketed specifically at teachers.
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Located along Halsey Street in a 5 block area south of Market Street and west of Broad Street in the heart of Newark?s downtown area, the Teachers Village development was envisioned as a vibrant new community that integrates seamlessly into the city?s historic core. Each building has been designed relative to its context and in accordance with the Newark Living Downtown Plan, a set of guidelines and strategies developed in 2008 by SOM in partnership with then-mayor Corey Booker aimed at revitalizing the Newark city center. The new buildings meet these guidelines by adopting the scale and rhythm of their context; all of the new building facad...