Pinellas Gateway Master Plan

The Gateway Master Plan is a blueprint for resilient planning, championing integrated sustainability, community vitality, and economic resilience. Atelier Ten developed a resiliency toolkit for the Master Plan, advancing a triple-bottom-line approach to environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

The 30-square-mile Gateway, Pinellas County’s primary economic hub, spans four jurisdictions and has long faced growth constraints and auto-centric development. Working with WRT and the interdisciplinary team, Atelier Ten helped shape a masterplan that manages water, energy, and natural resources while also promoting efficient, economy-driven land use patterns, increased housing, and public health.

Atelier Ten’s resilience toolkit identified key climate change risks – red tide, rising temperatures, increased precipitation, and sea-level rise – and provides short- and long-term solutions to address them. Resilience strategies include centralized community hubs, flood mitigation, heat island reduction, enhanced stormwater infiltration, renewable energy systems, and land use adaptation to support long-term resilience.

Atelier Ten also advised on resilient policies and codes to support the long-term implementation of sustainability goals on both new developments and existing buildings. Hazard-focused design guidelines include requirements for resilience-based zoning, caps on impervious surfaces, renewable energy requirements, and “stretch” goals to strengthen building performance.