Transforming Places
Even places that are underutilized or underperforming can be reinvigorated in exciting new ways. We discover and harness assets through judicious visioning, design, branding and implementation to raise each place to a uniquely prominent and competitive position. We are also adept at discovering the partners, the project champions, and the funding to answer multi-faceted needs and make big ideas happen.
URBAN PLANNING
- Creating Visitor Experiences
- Meeting the Housing Demand
- Subdivision Planning and Affordable Housing
- Technology & Medical Campus Planning
- Transit-oriented Development
- Transportation (DOT) planning
- Urban Planning and Design
REDEVELOPMENT
- Redevelopment
- Brownfield Redevelopment
- Land/Facility Reuse Planning
- Redevelopment Strategies & Implementation
- Repurposing Vacant Retail and Office Sites
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- Partnership Building
- Business Plan Development
- Project Visioning
CREATIVE FINANCING STRATEGY
- Financing Strategies & Special Finance Districts
- Funding Strategies and Grant Writing
- Grants Roadmap Services
- Recovery Resources
- TIF District Project Planning & Implementation
- TIF Resources
REAL ESTATE ADVISORY & MARKET ANALYSIS
- Corporate Asset Disposition
- Development Agreements
- Economic Impact Analysis
- Entitlement Facilitation
- Subdivision Planning and Affordable Housing
Shaping Communities
We’re helping build the next generation of small communities and medium-to large urban centers; bringing together the insight, strategic vision, project management, public involvement, and public-private or multi-jurisdictional activities needed at every stage. We help put the elements in place to set a clear and sustainable course for your community’s future.
COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING
- Comprehensive & Sub-Area Plans
- Public Outreach & Participation
CURRENT PLANNING
- Infrastructure & Capital Improvements Planning
- Intergovernmental Facilitation & Agreements
- Project Facilitation
- Zoning & Subdivision Ordinances
- Subdivision Planning and Affordable Housing
MASTER PLANNING
- New Neighborhoods
- Parking Studies
RESOURCE AND ASSET PLANNING
- Bike & Pedestrian Planning
- Farmland Preservation
- Flood Planning and Strategies for Resilient Communities
- Hazard Mitigation
- Natural Resource Management & Preservation
- Park & Open Space Planning
- Regional Transportation Planning
- Resilient Communities
- Resource & Asset Mapping
- School District Planning
- Sustainability Planning & Resource Management
- Transportation Planning
Building Economies
As communities and regions across the Midwest strive to find their role in the global economy, we help frame challenges, assets, and change differently. To build a sustainable economy for tomorrow, we examine emerging economic opportunities, leverage place-based assets, align around a compelling economic vision, set a clear course of action, and define catalytic projects for change.
REGIONAL ECONOMICS
- Economic Development Strategic Plans & Positioning
- Industry Cluster Analysis & Development
- Region Building
- Regional Economic Asset Mapping & Opportunity Analysis
- Regional Innovation Cluster Building & Positioning
- Regional Economic Asset Mapping & Opportunity Analysis
EMBRACING REGIONAL RESOURCES
- Local & Regional Food
- Renewable Economies, Systems & Resources
- Renewable Energy
- Resilient Communities
ECONOMIC POSITIONING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Asset Based Market Positioning
- Economic Positioning Projects
- Fiscal Impact Analysis & Market Assessment
- Strategies for Positioning Places to Succeed
Adding Impact
In everything we do, we aim to achieve greater impact on people’s lives and the places they live. That’s why we have developed a specialized skillset for finding hidden opportunities, visualization and communication, and getting more out of available resources. We can coalesce support, develop and manage the vision, and explain complex ideas along the way.
COMMUNICATIONS
- Communication Tools
- Community Branding
- Drone Aerial Imaging and Analysis
- GIS and Mapping
- GrantWatch Grant Tracking and Roadmap Services
- Informational and Process Diagrams
- Marketing Programs and Materials
- Project Videos
- Storytelling
- Websites
DESIGN
- Experience Development and Design
- Facility Programming
- Illustration
- Interpretive Design
- Landscape Architecture
- Placemaking
- Visioning
