Place Partners is a specialist place making consultancy with an interdisciplinary approach to the creation and revitalisation of great people places. Place Partners has extensive experience in working with local communities in urban and rural environments across Australia, Asia and the UAE.
Place Partners’ robust new site, developed by UIS, features an interactive World's Best Places map, which allows users submit photos, categorize and comment on some of the best places across the globe. The site also includes a dynamic learning Hub, where users can read the company’s Blog, check out place making case studies, or see a list of upcoming and past events. http://placepartners.com.au/

Main Street Buffalo is Urban Intereactive Studio’s most recent EngagingDowntons site. UIS worked closely with the mainstreet manager in Buffalo, Wyoming to create a website that empowers the local community and helps promote a strong, vibrant and beautiful downtown Buffalo for visitors and potential investors. Committed to designing an engaging web presence that exemplified the National Mainstreet Four Point Approach (Economic Restructuring, Design, Organization, and Promotion), the project team worked with UIS develop a site that demonstrates how alive Buffalo is with shops, merchants, restaurants, professionals, green space, and cultural events. The site hosts an array of community resources including volunteer opportunities, identification of and contact information for board committee members, historical and tourist attractions, real estate and business listings, educational event listings for the area and more. Main Street Buffalo site users are encouraged to get involved in their community activities and provide valuable feedback via the site’s community questions section.. mainstreetbuffalo.org

Will County’s Land Use Department hired Urban Interactive Studio to migrate its website from a static html site to a robust Content Management System to enable staff from different divisions to update the website themselves. The new website, built on Drupal, was designed to help the Land Use Department efficiently and effectively communicate with the public about planning projects, programs, events, etc. in a transparent, consistent, and timely manner. The site intuitively guides users through the process of locating relevant information, whether it be learning about their Neighborhood Stabilization Program, or requesting a building permit. Will County residents can also view upcoming public meeting agendas and meeting minutes, find out about their county’s local recycling and energy conservation programs, and even learn about the area’s historic landmarks all in one convenient online portal. http://willcountylanduse.com/

mix1 is a beverage company providing high quality, all-natural products that support health, wellness and performance through truly functional nutrition. Together with Fireant Studio, a Denver-based Interactive Agency, UIS built mix1's new Drupal website, including highly dynamic displays of social media content, featured athletes and team members. The site also features a store locator and eCommerce section. Take a closer look at mix1life.com

Progress Galveston is one of many project websites built on UIS' EngagingPlans platform. It serves a resource for sharing information on the process to improve the City of Galveston’s planning policies and development regulations and to engage citizens and stakeholders in the process. ProgressGalveston.com

The AmberWatch Alert System was built for the Amberwatch Foundation to be used as a tool to protect kids against child predators. UIS built the Drupal web application that allows visitors to sign up for email alerts and submit suspicious behavior. Administrators can review incidents and start investigations on the backend. Our application helps staffers to coordinate their investigations, keep track of local contacts across the United States and send email alerts targeted at subscribers for specific zip codes. http://besafe.amberwatchalert.org.

PlanningToolExchange.org is an online hub for the best tools, resources, organizations and practitioners in community planning. It allows urban planners to find and contribute new projects and ideas to help grow an information bank for communities everywhere. UIS helped the Orton Family Foundation to create the complex structure of multiple interconnected content types, categorization and multi-site infrastructure of the website. The site features an interactive home page that scrolls through featured entries and displays all organizations and projects listed on a map. UIS also conceptualized and fine-tuned the workflows for user-submitted content and community building. http://planningtoolexchange.org

‘Cliffes Commercial District is Urban Interactive Studio's first EngagingDowntown's website. The district's focus in working with UIS to create this new intereactive community portal was to support the local economy in Westcliffe and Silver Cliff, Colorado. The site hosts community resources such as interactive maps, real estate and business listings, public events, tourist attractions and historical information in one convenient location online.

EngagingDowntowns enables organizations to offer one central place online for citizens, tourists, investors or Realtors to find and share local businesses, event announcements, news, historical information, mobile tours, and real estate. Users can also provide their own feedback about community happenings and get engaged through social media. http://cliffscommercialdistrict.com/