Missoula Downtown Plan

Missoula, MT | 2019

Cascadia Partners (CP) was part of a multidisciplinary team led by venerable new urbanist designers, Dover-Kohl. CP was charged with analyzing policies to address the lack of new housing development in Downtown Missoula and to make the case for continued growth in Downtown.

In order to identify housing production barriers in Downtown Missoula, Cascadia Partners performed an audit on four zone districts using real estate pro-forma. The results of this analysis provided achievable and impactful tweaks to downtown zones that will make housing more feasible at a variety of price points.

Cascadia’s work also included scenario analysis at a regional scale. The purpose of this exercise was to show the benefits to the Missoula region if Downtown became its growth engine. CP staff modeled three growth scenarios: one that tested “business as usual,” one that tested a build-out of Missoula’s Growth Policy Plan, and one that tested Downtown’s capacity for growth.