Rik Adamski

Place-Based Community Revitalization | Third Places, Storefronts & Local Economies | Speaker & Advisor

Dallas, Texas, United States

About

I lead ASH+LIME, a firm focused on bottom-up, place-based community revitalization. I work in downtowns, neighborhoods, corridors, and aging shopping centers to help communities create places with more life, more local energy, and more reasons for people to show up and stay. My work often centers on small businesses, storefront activation, and stronger third places, the everyday places that make a community feel active, rooted, and real. I believe every place has more potential than standard planning approaches often know how to see. The work is to find it, build on it, and map the next practical steps that can turn good intentions into visible momentum. I’ve helped move projects from talk to action in more than 30 communities, from rural towns to major cities. I don’t do plans that sit on the shelf. I help communities build traction, make progress visible, and move forward.

Experience

  • President at ASH+LIME
    Oct 2013 - Present · 12 yrs 10 mos

  • Adjunct Professor at University of North Texas
    Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Congress for The New Urbanism (6 yrs 1 mo)
    • Board of Directors - North Texas Chapter
      Feb 2013 - Feb 2019 · 6 yrs 1 mo

    • President - North Texas Chapter
      Feb 2016 - Jan 2019 · 3 yrs

  • Project Manager at Bowman-Melton Associates, Inc.
    Jan 2013 - Oct 2013 · 10 mos

    • Conducted research on cutting-edge street design standards • Created and presented presentations for senior City of Dallas officials • Reviewed and edited bicycle and trail plans • Wrote proposals for over twenty projects • Rewrote and redesigned all promotional materials, including the company website.

  • Planner at City of Fort Worth
    Dec 2011 - Feb 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Researched and recommmended cutting-edge strategies for Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) • Advised the Fort Worth Police Department on Public Safety policies for multi-family housing • Assembled data and created reports on pedestrian- and bicycle-related accidents • Served on the Fort Worth Pedestrian Safety Plan and Walk! Fort Worth Committees; helped to develop the Pedestrian Safety Action Plan • Reviewed site plans for the Fort Worth Development Review Committee (DRC) • Used ArcGIS to create detailed maps