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Union Square Redevelopment Somerville, Massachusetts	The MBTA's plan to extend the MBTA Green Line to Somerville and Medford continues to move forward, with the opening of the new stations targeted for 2014.  We have proposed a scheme that uses a new roadway alignment to create a new public plaza in Union Square while placing the new Green Line station in the heart of the square rather than on the Fitchburg Line as has been more commonly proposed.   <click on image for more
Brickbottom International Urban Design Competition Somerville, Massachusetts	Matthew Frederick led the "Onion Square" design team to one of eight Honorable Mentions among a field of 200+ international registrants in the 2006 Brickbottom Design Competition in Somerville, Massachusetts. Involving the wholesale revisioning of the Brickbottom District, the project included an MBTA Green Line extension with three new stations, a bike path to downtown Boston, a reconfiguration of long-troubling traffic patterns in Union Square, improved access to the Inner Belt industrial district, a new public common, a Canal Park featuring artist live-work housing, and human-scaled streetscapes featuring fine-grained housing and "Mom and Pop" business incubators.  Additionally, the scheme advanced a strategy for recreating the historic Miller's River, whose previous infilling has caused considerable environmental problems.  Through a reconfiguring of the Somerville storm sewer system, surface water runoff was redirected to create a new canal and natural-sided stream.  A dam redirects water into a recirculation loop that aerates the water and provides cooling for the air conditioning systems of nearby buildings.  Onion Square's scheme was published in Edge as Center: Envisioning the Post-Industrial Landscape in 2007.

< New artist studios and exhibit spaces were designed by the Frederick Design Studio for the Arlington Center for the Arts in the former Gibbs School.	^ As Project Urban Designer with The Cecil Group, Matthew Frederick teamed with Bonz/REA to conduct a feasibility study for the rehabilitation and re-use of this historic mill complex in Amesbury, Massachusetts.	^ Matthew Frederick provided technical consultation and CAD coordination services to Keefe Associates Architects for the new $8M Corpus Christi Church and Community Center in Sandwich, Massachusetts.

^ The $120M redevelopment of the former Hingham Shipyard will bring mixed residential and commercial uses to a long underused site.  Matthew Frederick served as urban designer and designed commercial and housing building prototypes for the project while with The Cecil Group.	< As Project Architect for The Cecil Group, Matthew Frederick led a building reuse study for historic Winter Island in Salem, Massachusetts.  The buildings included a neoclassical barracks, restaurant, and Art Deco seaplane hangar.		^ A comprehensive study for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority identified urban design opportunities and technical constraints in potential air rights development over the 3-mile long Boston Extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike.  Matthew Frederick was Project Urban Designer for The Cecil Group.
	Matthew Frederick provided interior design services and CAD management to Mount Vernon Group Architects for numerous school projects, including the new Roosevelt School in New Bedford, Massachusetts. >

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