The ideas competition invited views for the future of the Grand Concourse, the 'Champs Elysees of the New York Bronx'. Urban Progress' proposal is based on the conviction that the Grand Concourse does not need star-architecture; it needs community life. POWERline provides a toolkit for reprogramming the street from the bottom up. The result is a lively and attractive street. Powered by solar energy, providing economic power and learning energy; for and by the peoples of the Bronx.

The plan divides the section of the street into three parts. The center section is for tru-traffic. But both sides are ‘localized'. The proposal provides a toolkit of street-level interventions. A ‘plug-in wall' powered by a solar roof; a Summer Class as a place for free education; a Basket Ball Court; a trunk market and more. The container building serves as the hub in the center of it all. The Tool Kit has the building blocks to ‘localize' the Grand Concourse and transform it into a lively and attractive street.

The proposal was selected to be exhibited at the AIA Center for Architecture in November 2009.