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Amy Stelly

down with my bare hands,” says Amy Stelly about the hulking concrete I-10 overpass that towers over Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans’s storied Treme neighborhood. Speaking with her today, it’s clear she’s never lost that determination. Stelly worked as an architectural designer on residential projects for Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk’s firm in Miami and later spent several years as an urban designer for the City of West Palm Beach. Since moving back to her family’s 100-year-old home in 2012, just a block

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