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BEST-IN-CLASS PLANNING FIRM DIRECTORY a Regional Cities Transformation Toolkit Resource BEST-IN-CLASS PLANNING FIRM DIRECTORY A Regional Cities Transformation Toolkit Resource Fourth Economy Consulting 700 River Avenue, Suite 333 Pittsburgh, PA 15212 412.325.2457 [email protected] INTRODUCTION The “Best-in-Class Planning Firm Directory” is the fourth tool in the regional transformation toolkit commissioned by the IEDC. The directory is a one-stop- shop resource of leading firms that provide technical, management, and strategy services for Indiana’s regional cities. As regional leaders envision new futures and chart new paths, stakeholders from every corner will likely push for improvements and developments that will require planning and design, technical knowledge, and experience. Regional leaders should seek the support of advisory organizations experienced in addressing the issues and opportunities each community faces. These firms operate within a broad marketplace that seeks to plan and execute projects aimed at improving the quality of place and economy. They work with private and public sector clients on the local and regional level, and address urban and regional planning projects with any number the following areas of expertise: • Architecture and engineering • Public-private partnership (P3) • Brownfield/Industrial lands development development • Business or workforce development • Real estate • Charrette services and public engagement • Recreation and tourism • City and Regional planning • Redevelopment or revitalization strategies • Civil engineering and practices • Community development • Site remediation • Corporate site selection • Smart growth and sustainable • Development incentives strategy and development programming • Strategic planning • Economic development planning and strategy • Transit-oriented development • Feasibility analyses • Transportation planning • Infrastructure planning and build • Urban design/Downtown redevelopment • Land-Use and land planning • Urban redevelopment or revitalization • Market analyses • Mixed-use development With such a vast and varied field, a directory of experienced, leading, top- performing firms will save regions time and energy in seeking out the right firms for their projects. 1 DIRECTORY OVERVIEW The directory is broken into two sections, “General” and “Feature” listings. General Listings A collection of 63 of the best planning and advisory firms addressing urban, regional, and economic development matters. These firm listings include basic information about their company and give a direct point of contact for RFP solicitation or consulting services. General listing companies were selected for collection and profiling based upon a handful of selection criteria that sets them apart from their peer organizations. • Firms contracted within a case study region • Award recipients for practice and project outcomes through the APA and ULI • Recognition among ZweigWhite’s annual “A/E/C’s Hot 100 Firms,” a ranking of top-performing companies in the A/E/C industry • Selected listings in fee-based business development directories at the IEDC, APA, and PLANetizen Feature Listings Group of 14 firms responding to our solicited RFI. These profiles include in-depth organization and project experience information. Respondents invested extensive efforts into profiling their firms and overviewing their project experience in response to targeted questions with four specific themes. These themed survey items were aimed squarely at prompting participating firms to describe past experiences addressing clients and projects similar to those found amongst Indiana’s regional cities. Each firm was given the ability the share as many as 4 project examples for each of the 4 sections. This concentrated selection of companies not only meet the selection criteria used for “General Listing,” but also developed specific summaries of project synopses, outcomes, and supporting project materials that they believed would be relevant to Indiana’s regional communities based on general descriptions of the Regional Cities Initiative. Project materials for specific projects can be found within the online toolkit platform. They are organized by firm, and include all project materials in the order they occur here. 2 Specializations & Experience Firms were also invited to rate their firms’ degree of expertise and experience on 26 practice specialties. • Brownfields + Industrial lands re-use • Real Estate Development • Campus + School Planning • Recreation + Tourism • Charrette Services • Redevelopment + Revitalization • Community Development • Regional Planning • Comprehensive Planning | General Plans • Site Remediation • Economic Development Planning • Small Town + Rural Planning • Environmental + Natural Resources • Smart Growth • Housing Development • Strategic Planning • Infrastructure Planning • Sustainable Development • Innovation- and Technology-based ED • Transit-Oriented Development • Land-Use + Land Planning • Transportation Planning • Landscape Architecture • Waterfront Development • Mixed-Use Development • Public-Private Partnership (P3) Development As your regions begin looking for specific services or knowledge, this section will assist you in determining the firms with the right kind of targeted industry knowledge. Feature firms will have their exact rating, while General listings either include or exclude categories based upon their responses. Using the Directory Estimates suggest there are over 10,000 firms in the US offering these services to public sector clients. This directory captures 81 of the most active, top- performing, and most demanded firms within. Even still, not all of these firms are identical or equally qualified. These companies differ in terms of size, service offerings, and their respective industry sub-groups. Examples: AECOM is the largest company in the A/E/C industry, best known for urban engineering, design, and construction. Yet their firm understands the value of their industry knowledge concerning real estate, design, land-use, etc. to public sector planning and economic development, so they have autonomous practice groups offering parallel services. Avalanche Consulting, AngelouEconomics, and Biggins Lacy Shapiro & Company, are all considered economic consultancies in the economic development field. Yet, BLS&Co. focuses on traditional economic development practice pertaining to site selection and corporate attraction, while Avalanche and Angelous concentrate on providing research and insight such as market analyses, strategic planning, and feasibility and incentive studies. 3 FEATURE FIRMS The following 14 firms responding to our solicited RFI, investing extensive energies into profiling their firms and overviewing their project experiences. Each firm was given the opportunity to share project examples with summaries of project synopses, outcomes, and materials in response to four targeted prompt categories. Each of the four sections were designed to prompt responses that would shed light on the firms’ experiences with clients and projects that possess qualities similar to Indiana’s regional cities. The sections are summarized below. There are asterisks on both sides of the titles for project case examples with project materials within the toolkit. Some firms provided their own hosted links to projects instead of uploading files; these links will be in the project summary sections. RFI Four Project History Prompts SECTION ONE: Integrating Planning + SECTION TWO: Client History in the Midwest Economic Development Your firm's experience in providing services to Midwestern clients. Your firm's experience in providing services where there is an explicit marriage of urban/regional planning + economic development. INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION In isolation, economic development or urban/regional planning practice As our client is in the Midwest, it is important to show that you have cannot account for the complexity of the economic, social, and spatial issues experience working in that region. addressed in broad-based redevelopment and revitalization projects. Any planning aimed at redevelopment and revitalization for our client will need to come from firms who understanding of urban-regional and economic development planning as dynamic and integrated service offerings. PROMPT PROMPT How does your firm address the intersection of economic development and What Midwestern clients have you provided urban-regional or economic urban-regional planning in your organization and services offered? Use the development planning services for in the past? Using the spaces below, space below to answer this, offering a description of at least one current or provide the client location, project overview, and the project outcomes. recent project within the past 12 months that illustrates this. SECTION THREE: Redevelopment & Revitalization in SECTION FOUR: Highlights of Project Success Practice Selected projects highlighting your most successful work in action. Your firm's experience providing services where a key client goal is the achievement of broad-based redevelopment and revitalization. INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Its one thing to offer services to regions where the local economies and Up to this point in the RFI, we've been specific about the kinds of projects communities are thriving and healthy. Your services are complimenting and outcomes we'd like for you to share. In this fourth and final section, we'd already-successful locations and building onto their strong foundation. But like for you to offer us a picture of project success from your portfolio of does your
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