Fort Wayne SE, IN
MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE TO CREATE A DETAILED DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
The City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, updated its plan for the Southeast quadrant of the city. While this was mostly an in-house effort led by City staff, the City engaged the services of Yard & Company to prepare a detailed development strategy for key focus areas within the Southeast. The priorities for this work included enacting a diverse, creative and active engagement strategy that connected stakeholders to the process; offering an immersive design charrette experience for specific opportunity areas; making recommendations for housing, retail (with particular focus on small-scale minority-owned businesses), commercial, light industrial, adaptive reuse and supportive infrastructure such as streets (both as places and for mobility); and all with implementation strategies that were focused on what could be done within the first year.
Services
Planning | Development | Activation | Operation
Timeframe
2019 - 2020
Client
City of Fort Wayne Community Development Division
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana
PROBLEM
How can a strategy address a large region of a city while remaining focused enough to create real investment opportunities and impact?
SOLUTION
Develop an inclusive focus area scorecard that enables residents to strategically choose focus areas for reinvestment.
ACTION
Design and implement an active and action-oriented charrette that details reinvestment and growth tactics in the focus areas, with an eye towards immediate action.
