All I Want for Christmas Is a Grant or Two
‘Tis the season to be jolly – and to enjoy giving and receiving gifts from family and friends. Wouldn’t it be nice if your municipality could get a few gifts, too – like some nice big checks to help pay for infrastructure improvements? Well, your wish can come true – if you’re willing to put… Read More »
Tags: Brownfield, Community, Development Services, Environmental, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Funding, Grant, Grant Program, Landscape Architecture, Municipalities, Planning, SMART Objectives
Downtown Planning Reinvigorates Urban Cores
By Matt Ashby In the era of strip malls, big box retailers, and suburbia, countless communities across the country are struggling to keep their downtowns thriving. As stores and restaurants locate around many city and town perimeters, the communities’ urban cores are being neglected. However, thanks to the efforts of a nationwide Main Street Movement,… Read More »
Tags: Downtown, Downtown Planning, main street amaerica, Planning Services, Strategic Planning, Urban Core, Urban Planning, Urban Revitalization
Building Bridges without Tangling Traffic
By Dave Pantzlaff, PE Quite often in our world of designing bridges for clients, we come across situations where we cannot simply close the road, take out or rehabilitate the existing bridge, and provide a detour for the public while the bridge is under construction. Maybe the bridge is on a dead-end road, providing the… Read More »
Tags: ABC, Accelerated Bridge Construction, Bridge Design, Chippewa County, Construction Staging, Crawford County, Detour, Kewaunee County, Madison, Menasha, New Alignment, Temporary Bypass, Traffic, Wisconsin
