Revitalizing Suburban Downtowns: Mount Vernon & New Rochelle

Mount Vernon and New Rochelle are similarly sized, first-ring suburbs of the New York City metropolitan area, with comparable challenges, land use patterns, and histories. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated pre-existing trends in remote work, declines in transit use and increases in e-commerce. These trends upended existing relationships between work and home life, transportation patterns, logistics, [...]