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With 30 plus years of experience in the architectural and engineering services field, JPR is able to offer clients a very tailored approach to their projects.

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or over thirty years, JPR has developed a well respected reputation as a consulting firm that is always willing to go the extra mile to exceed its’ client’s expectations. Ever changing, JPR has developed the staff and experience needed to offer a full selection of professional services to a broad spectrum of clients.

From pre-planning to project completion, we tailor our approach accord-

ing to the specifics of the project at hand. This emphasis on superior client service sets us apart from our competitors and has enabled JPR to experience continuous growth during the company history. We are also fortunate to have both the founding and second generations of leadership still actively involved in the day to day operation of the firm, and have implemented plans and strategies to ensure that JPR continues to grow and adapt along-side our clients for years

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and decades to come.

“We’re a service business, focused on the needs of our clients. Our goal is to be their single source for feasible solutions to what are often complex challenges.”

Kenneth Jones Sr.

President/Principal Officer

About Us

The JPR team is highly experienced in all aspects of building and site design.

Design, planning, utility infrastructure analysis, and public input meetings, our staff has the necessary experience to make your project a reality.

Our Company Our full range of services, collaborative approach, and more than 30 years of experience allow us to deliver the innovative, sustainable solutions your project needs.

Whether it’s the construction of a new community center or the renovation of a ballpark, we believe that the work we do together has the potential to make a big impact on your community for years-or decades-to come. That’s why we believe project success goes beyond impeccable design, creative solutions, and adherence to timelines and budgets.

To the team at JPR, the measure of success includes sustainability, customer satisfaction, community impact, and ongoing performance.

Mission Provide superior client service, complete your project on time, and on budget, exceeding your expectations.

No sales staff, just experienced project managers taking care of you.

Dedication Our dedicated staff is ready to work for you. With our extensive project experience and extremely qualified team we are able to overcome any challenge your project might have.

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Our Services

Each project has its own unique strengths and challenges, which often change throughout different phases. We are equipped with the knowledge and ability to deliver a broad cross-section of services to meet your changing needs.

Our Team

Our highly experienced team is remarkably qualified to perform the services needed for your project. Our dedicated staff is ready to work for you.

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elivering a tailored solution to our clients’ complex problems is what JPR has focused on for more than 30 years. Exceptional customer service is what drives us and we will always go the extra mile to ensure our clients achieve the best results for their projects. This stems from a culture of ownership and resourcefulness that

echos throughout the company. With more than 52 team members on staff, JPR’s multidisciplinary approach establishes us as leading experts in many areas. These areas include but are not limited to; Architecture, Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Planning, GIS, Environmental, Surveying, Utility Management, Renwable Energy, Wastewater and many more areas. Our team is

comprised of accomplished professionals who use their creativity and ingenuity to craft tailored solutions that often times meets or exceeds our clients expectations. If you are looking for this type of attention and solution, look no further. Contact JPR to see how we can work together.

Project success begins with a partner who is devoted to making your vision come to life. We build lasting partnerships and projects by: Working with you to define your goals. Building a comprehensive skilled team, tailored to your project. Delivering innovative, sustainable solutions that allow your project and your community to thrive.

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Landscape Architecture

Engineering

Architecture

From concept through details, our services are tailored to each project with a unique approach to form, function and cost.

JPR has extensive experience in providing quality complex civil, structural, mechanical and municipal systems engineering services.

From franchise services, sports centers, & institutional structures to steel buildings & historic renovations, our architectural staff is prepared to provide complete & cost effective planning & implementation.

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GIS

Environmental

The nationwide experience of our staff helps provide creative yet sound, innovative, yet realistic solutions for your community planning needs.

This department can help with utility inventory, highway maintenance, transportation, survey data, parks and recreation, and much more.

This department offers services such as environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, and wetland habitat preservation and mitigation strategies.

Renewable Energy

Land Surveying

From point-of-use wind solutions to bio-mass generation, JPR is continuously developing ways for our clients to benefit from the advancements.

From boundary surveys to topographic surveys, from mortgage surveys to right-of-way surveys, the firm’s survey history is one of the most impressive in the market.

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Our Planning Experience Comprehensive planning requires a unique set of knowledge, skills and experiences. At JPR our team has been honing those skills and is ready to overcome your challenges.

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We plan at the beginning to save time later. A good plan means that you don’t have to worry about all of the small details. It sets out the processes that everyone is expected to follow so it avoids a lot of headaches later.

You can’t find a solution until you have a clear idea of what the need is. We use the design process to solve these problems. In this phases we define the steps needed to tackle each project and put our plan into operation.

An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements within a timeline.

We mangage this process from the begining. This ensures that your project will stay on time and on budget.

Jones Petrie Rafinski provides professional, accredited planning services to numerous municipal clients and private developers. Our versatility enables us to cover a wide range of applications from public facilitation to detailed implementation strategies.

• Because we are a multi-faceted firm, we are able to provide our clients with the needed expertise on all levels of planning and development.

• Any viable plan will answer three important questions: Who are we?

What do we want? and What can we do?

• We are experts in outreach and facilitation using the latest methods and media.

• The true strength and value of any planning document is in its ability to bring about practical and healthy change.

• We believe in realistic implementation strategies and partnerships that result in cost effective plans and buildable projects for our clients and the communities we serve

• All successful planning documents require an implementation strategy that is detailed, achievable, and realistic that answers the most important question, How can we do it?

• We design our planning documents to be utilized, be easy to read, and be completely functional.

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Who are we?

What do we want?

What can we do?

How can we do it?

Provides a brief history of your community, a description of its regional setting, an inventory of its natural features, an analysis of the community’s issues and liabilities, a study of its land use patterns, and an overview of its socioeconomic trends and projections.

This is based on stakeholder input, key person interviews, and public participation.

Engaging the community is a crucial part of the planning process. This portion of the plan will assimilate your concerns and comments into one cohesive vision that will drive the plan’s focus.

This is a series of individual component plans such as Housing, Streetscape Design, Transportation, Economic Development, and Infrastructure. Our expert staff will develop a series of goals and recommendations that will change your visions into realities.

Outlines various long and short range detailed implementation strategies.

A key element to any healthy and viable plan is in its ability to produce tangible results. This component of the plan will identify tasks, responsibilities, budgets, and partnerships.

A thorough understanding of the existing conditions will ensure plan recommendations are informed and substantiated.

This critical process will ensure that the resulting plan is a vision by the community for the community.

Based on existing conditions and future trends, these policies will reinforce the vision defined by your community.

This chapter will be a valuable reference for planners, city officials, and community stakeholders alike and will provide a road map for project implementation.

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JPR’s diverse background in public and private develoment, redevelopment and revitalization has allowed us to develop an action-centric focus. Planning for the sake of planning is not in our DNA. We believe that the results early in implementation generates a demand driven process. The JPR process promotes activation.

This is our passion. This is what we do. We work with a diverse range of clients to create outcomes that will influence communities for generations.

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Community involvement is the power to bring positive, measurable change to the communities in which you operate.

JPR regards community involvement as a critical segment of any project.

Our team members begin addressing the community as early as possible in order to help garner public support for your project. The community is a valuable resource and it is important to explain the improvements that are being proposed and how they will benefit them. In order to this, JPR uses a focused community engagement methodology. We utilize a number of tools to help us engage with the public.

We have had great success by using these tools and methodology to gain the support of the community.

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development that builds career pathways for Elkhart’s workforce; and Land Use & Infrastructure – Industrial Park redevelopment and infrastructure upgrade programs.

JPR was responsible for the Land Use & Infrastructure initiative that included facilitating the action team meetings that included business leaders, realtors, and City Staff. JPR conducted an in-depth analysis of the two main

Elkhart, Indiana

Elkhart 2040 Business Diversification Plan

Project Cost lkhart Comprehensive Plan Update Client 2015 Contact $75,000

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City of Eklhart, Indiana 574.294.5476

Project Managers

Kenneth K. Jones, PS, CEO Chris Chockley, PLA, AICP

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The Phase II Economic Diversification Program created focused economicbased outcomes by organizing “action teams” for each opportunity area.

Each action team engaged in focused analysis of the challenges and the opportunities for their respective topic, generated innovative and effective responses which effectively addressed the challenges identified, and activated the community around the planning and development recommendations that were identified.

Three key economic development initiatives that Phase II focused on included: Industry diversification that identifies target industries and a road map for attracting and growing business; Workforce and talent

Redevelopment Support Plan. Finally, the JPR team prepared the Redevelopment Support Plan Funding Strategies and a detailed Business Activation Plan to ensure that the goals and objectives developed for the Elkhart 2040 Diversification Plan are implemented in a logical and realistic manner.

The Plan includes a “Year One” activation plan that weill promote demand driven early success.

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The Elkhart community has eginning in 2019, JPR, challenges related to labor in conjunction with force deficits (9000 unfilled Thomas P. Miller, and positions) as well as business Insight Strategic Consegement difersification. cepts, worked with the City of Elkhart to assess Elkhart’s The Phase I Economic economic diversity and Diversification Plan included identify constraints on future research that identified economic development in while Elkhart’s Base the city. Elkhart Comprehensive Plan that 2015 Industries contribute over $14 Billion in statewide The Elkhart 2040 economic activity, they are Diversification Plan approach also more volatile than the was not a study or traditional rest of the state’s economy. planning effort. The goal of In addition, this volatility the project was to design means that Elkhart struggles and implement a multiwith periods of extremely faceted redevelopment and high and extremely low economic diversification unemployment rates, making initiative that produces short it a challenge for businesses and long-term outcomes. to grow over time.

Rather than conducting Factors such as industrial studies and plans that infrastructure, housing produce individual silos, this availability, automation, and process looked to connect talent development pose the relevant economic and challenges for Elkhart’s longcommunity development term stability. opportunities together.

industrial and manufacturing clusters conditions, reviewed existing and future land uses, identified, and evaluated existing public and private utility infrastructure, and reviewed existing and future modes of transportation and their routes. Based on the information and data collected JPR then analyzed the current Development and Business Incentive Overlay Areas, prepared Redevelopment and Development Strategies, and created a detailed

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Elkhart, Indiana

Elkhart River District Master Plan

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ones Petrie Rafinski, in association with Jeff Speck, Stantec, Insight Strategic Concepts, Zimmerman Volk Associates, PlanningNext, and Development Concepts Inc., worked with the City of Elkhart and Community Foundation of Elkhart County to develop the Elkhart River District Vision and Implementation Plans. The City’s community vision started with developing a thriving urban, mixed-use, walkable community that is a downtown destination emphasizing the rivers and recreational amenities.

In April 2017, the River District planning team, along with the input of 25 private and public stakeholders, presented to the community a River District revitalization vision plan. Immediately, Mayor Neese and the City Council commissioned the

Project Cost $30 Million

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River District Implementation Team (RDIT) of 17 publicprivate members to complete the research, master design, acquisitions, development, and construction with an approved city investment of $30 million in public infrastructure and amenities. The River District construction immediately ensued building four anchor projects including: a 200unit apartment complex, state-of-the-art Elkhart Health and Aquatics center, a Jackson Boulevard signature streetscape, and a mixeduse project including a Martin’s Supermarket and over 170 residential units.

The active private and public investments now exceed $170 million. Fifty percent of the 105-acre River District will be completed by 2022 and an additional

Client Contact

City of Eklhart, Indiana 574.294.5476

$150 million of investment is anticipated to follow.

RDIT members represent all sectors of the community: city staff, local and national professional consultants, community and business leaders, investors, developers, and current property owners who regularly collaborate on all aspects of the plan.

Additional current projects underway in the district include: access to downtown waterways, a contiguous Riverwalk path around the district, renewed park and town green, inviting and charming tree-lined walkable streets and boulevards, on-street parking, buried utilities and a vibrant community of mixed-use activities ready for everyday social engagement.

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Walkerton Indiana Redevelopment Master Plan

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ones Petrie Rafinski, in association with Sturtz Public Management worked with the Town of Walkerton to develop the Downtown Redevelopment Master Plan.

What can we do?

How can we do it?

The plan proposes a set of principles and recommendations that will build on the cooperation and leadership developed within the planning process.

Recommendations regarding policy, market, social and cultural initiatives are included as well as physical improvements such as streetscape and development opportunities.

The implementation process identifies recommended steps toward development, funding strategies, and phasing.

The Redevelopment Plan provides the framework for creating a unique and solid foundation for downtown revitalization and growth. The Town’s major strengths and weaknesses were analyzed and considered as part of the overall plan.

The characteristics of this master plan were developed through deliberate conversations between the residents of Walkerton, area stakeholders, and the Planning Committee.

A market analysis was performed with a focus of retail and economic development.

These findings were used by the planning team to inform the process and help develop recommendations and strategies.

The planning process identifies four key components including: Who are we?

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omprehensive Plan: The rerouting of U.S. Highway 31 one mile east of Town prompted the community to pursue the development of a Comprehensive Plan. The Town obtained a Planning Grant through the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs. This grant enabled the Town to address the impacts the relocation will have as well addressing many other community goals.

A significant portion of the plan was dedicated to contending with the new location of U.S. Highway 31. Although the new interchange was out of their jurisdiction, the Town wanted to maintain some level of control over its development. Jones Petrie Rafinski (JPR) facilitated an inter-local agreement between the St. Joseph County Area Plan Commission and the Town. This included the County’s adoption of a future land use map that extended beyond the Town’s existing limits, the ability of the Town to review improvements that occur within the County but fall outside of the Town’s boundaries, and a mutual agreement between the County’s Redevelopment Commission and the Town’s for the creation and management of a newly proposed multijurisdictional TIF district.

Streetscape: The relocation of U.S. Highway 31 left a large state highway bisecting the downtown. In 2009, Jones Petrie Rafinski assisted the Town of Lakeville with design and beautification plans for the downtown portion of the newly down-graded Michigan St./U.S. Highway 31. We worked closely with both the Town Council and the Redevelopment Commission to determine what the downtown meant to the community and how it should be depicted in the streetscape design.

This heavily themed design incorporated symbolic elements that were related to the natural wetlands and lakes surrounding the Town and included ornamental street trees, street lighting, decorative crosswalks, plaza spaces, and bike lanes.

Funding was obtained through a Group IV grant. JPR provided all necessary services, including facilitating multiple meetings, to ensure that the grant was successfully submitted and awarded.

A market analysis was performed with a focus of retail and economic development.

These findings were used by the planning team to inform the process and help develop recommendations and strategies.

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Project Cost $2.2 million

Client Contact Martha Tyler 574.784.8311

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Proposed Concrete Sidewalk (Typ.) he City of Kendallville actively pursues opStreet and the railroad tracks. A 6.majority of the tions to transform their downtown corridor project will include tearing out and fully replacing to enhance its overall economic vitality. sidewalks and curbs. As part of the project, KenOne of the first phases is to KENDALLVILLE improve the dallville will also upgrade its downtown electrical DOWNTOWN - PROPOSED PLAN ENLARGEMENT streetscape within the three blocks of their historic capacity for festivals and events as well as install JANUARY 18, 2017 downtown core. The streetscape had not been decorative lighting, planters, benches and other updated since 1987 and needed significant imfeatures. provements. This streetscape project is expected According to the Mayor of Kendallville “The goal to boost the downtown appeal and connect with of making our downtown a destination point other efforts to make downtown more attractive. has many facets and the new and improved Due to the size and complexity of this project, the streetscape will be an essential element of this.

City of Kendallville commissioned JPR to assist in Building improvements through façade grants, the the development of a Streetscape Master Plan. ever-growing number of family-friendly downtown The JPR team worked closely with the City’s Mayor activities, the parklet experience, ‘The Alley’ culand City Staff and facilitated public workshops tural space renovation, as well a planned pocket to create the Downtown Kendallville Streetscape park near City Hall will all serve to breathe new life Master Plan. After preparing the plan and cost esinto our beloved historical downtown.” timates JPR worked with the City’s grant writer to JPR, upon the award of the grant, continued to submit the project to the Indiana Department of work with the City to prepare the necessary conOffice of Community and Rural Affairs for possible struction documents and specifications, facilitated funding. In 2018, Kendallville was one of three additional public meetings, met with the downcommunities to be awarded funding through the town business owners to present the final plans, Main Street Revitalization Program. assisted with the bidding process, vetted bidding The City’s $1.1 million streetscape project will contractors and provided Construction Observatransform the downtown corridor between Rush tion services.

Project Cost $1.1 Million

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Suzanne Handshoe, Mayor of Kendallville 260.347.0352

Project Manager

Chris Chockley, PLA, AICP

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he City of Decatur found itself dealing with many of the same issues as other small communities. They desired to develop a new Comprehensive Plan that would be used as a tool to attract new business, to retain existing business and population, to assist in a logical plan for redevelopment, and to find ways in which to utilize their natural resources.

The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs assisted the City in obtaining a Planning Grant. Utilizing tools from our arsenal of public input techniques, Jones Petrie Rafinski was successful in obtaining a high percentage of community participation which translated into a plan that was readily accepted by the City as well as its residents.

The plan included detailed recommendations for their downtown and waterfront districts, the creation of a Redevelopment Commission, the formation of a TIF District, an annexation plan, and many other communityfocused strategies.

Project Cost $56,000

Client Contact

Dan Rickord, Mayor of Decatur 260.724.7171

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Chris Chockley, PLA, AICP

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he proposed streetscape revitalization project for the City of Auburn is located in the heart of the downtown area. It includes 2-blocks of 6th Street, from Cedar to Jackson Streets and 2-blocks of Main Street from 7th to 5th Street. The focus of these improvements was to provide the community with pedestrian friendly streetscape environments, which in turn will increase public awareness and interest in adjoining businesses.

The proposed street corridor improvements included new sidewalk pavement utilizing a combination of concrete and colorized pavers.

The new pavement and pedestrian friendly design utilized the pavers to break up the space with patterns and banding along the sidewalk and crosswalk within the intersection of 6th and Main Street. New vintage style “pedestrianscale” street lights will replace the existing “cobra-head” lights currently mounted on PLAN KEYNOTES wooden utility poles. The new light poles will offer brackets for festival banners and electrical 1. Angled parking 10. Curbed planters outlets for holiday decorations.

Sign poles and 2. Paver sidewalks 11. Raised intersection sign frames will be of an ornamental design to fit 3. Driveway access 12. Crosswalk the overall theme of the design. New benches, 4. Dumpster Enclosure Bench 6’ bike racks, and trash 13. receptacles will be installed.

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early three decades of studies and investigation by the Park Board clearly demonstrated the desire of residents to have a facility that would provide for comprehensive and diversified programming year-round. New Haven made the first step towards accomplishing this goal by renovating an existing building to develop their Community Center which now provides the community with a variety of amenities and programming.

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Screened enclosures will be included for several trash dumpsters located along 6th Street. Curbed planter islands for street trees and decorative plantings will be installed. The street tree varieties were carefully selected and placed within the sidewalk-zone to allow for uninterrupted sightlines for motorists and visibility of store fronts.

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This next phase of the project intends to develop the property surrounding the Community Center to build on the success of the Community Center thus far and to be a grand example of the New Haven Parks and Recreation’s Vision: “Building the community and increasing

the quality of life through people, parks, and programs.”

The proposed improvements will provide a diverse range of amenities that offer recreational opportunities for all ages that will assist in strengthening the community and enhance the quality of life for all of those in the community. The improvements include a multifunctional outdoor plaza, inclusive playground, accessible splash pad, restroom and storage building, four pickleball courts, basketball court, open space, a trail connection and site lighting improvements. As this project becomes the hub of New Haven, the City already anticipates the future expansion of this project which will be easily achievable due to the thoughtful and forward-thinking design and layout of each

space. The limits of where this project could go are unknown, but preparations have already been made for future expansion of the Community Center to incorporate a recreational center that could double the size of the existing facility, the inclusion of a synthetic ice rink on the pickleball courts with adjacent concession space, open space for future programmed spaces and the development of a safer vehicular entrance to the property.

The City of New Haven is thrilled to begin this next step in expanding its Community Center to better fit the community’s needs and can’t wait to see what the future holds.

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Client Contact Mike Clendenen 260.749.2212

Project Manager Nathan Deig, PLA

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Northwest Gateway Planning Study

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ones Petrie Rafinski was hired as part of a team to provide planning and design services for a key gateway entrance into Elkhart County. It was suffering from both a lack of identity and a lack of growth.

This project included an economic development strategy, a branding and identity scheme, and a multi-modal accessibility plan.

Each of these components required in-depth research and a detailed study to ensure that all aspects of the plan acted as a cohesive whole.

Revitalizing the area through a balance of land uses, targeted business clusters, environmentally friendly design approaches, and connectivity planning were major focuses of the project.

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Chris Godlewski, Director 574.971.4678

JPR’s scope of services expanded to include implementing the Plan. Our project team surveyed property owners and business owners within the district to assess their level of interest and commitment. In addition, we conducted an in-depth review of current and projected TIF increment to ensure that our recommendations for TIF-funded projects and incentives would be realistic and achievable. The last phase has been to identify and investigate potential developers for the area.

his major entrance into the City of Elkhart was facing considerable challenges. Numerous commercial vacancies were eroding the tax base, the interior site configuration was inadequate for today’s retail venues, and the area projected a bland and unimpressive welcoming.

The development team assembled for this project concentrated on reactivating the retail center in order to serve visitors and residents, on creating a memorable gateway into Elkhart from the Toll Road, and on leveraging visitor spending from the hotel complex. These strategies combined to produce a sound and viable plan that will guide the area for years to come.

Project Cost $1.25 million

Client Contact

Eric Trotter - Assistant Director Planning 574.294.5471

Project Manager Kenneth Jones, PLS

Elkhart County, Indiana Project Manager

Kenneth Jones, PLS

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South Bend, Indiana

South Bend Five Year Park Master Plan

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he City of South Bend commissioned the JPR team, including the nationally renowned park and recreation planning firm, GreenPlay, LLC, to provide planning services to assist in the development of their 5-Year Park Master Plan. As a city with a population over 100,000, it has a rich tradition offering a multitude of park programs to fulfill the wants and needs of a diverse population. Nonetheless, the city wanted to gain a better understanding of how it could improve upon its 57 parks and 1,200 acres of park land to meet the growing demands of a 21st century city.

The development of the plan

Project Cost

$50,000 Cosulting Fee

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consisted of formulating goals and objectives with an emphasis on establishing an inclusive public dialogue. During the planning process the project team held 26 public meetings, conducted a statistically valid survey, and received online survey responses from more than 1,000 people. The information gathered from these forums helped in the assessment and analysis of South Bend’s needs with respect to parks and open space, recreation, community building strategies, and organizational structure. Furthermore, the analysis identified the necessary funding requirements for deferred maintenance and capital improvement projects.

Client Contact

South Bend Parks & Recreation 574.299.4765

The completion of the City of South Bend 5-Year Park Master Plan resulted in a $5 million parks bond to begin funding critical projects identified during the analysis. The plan now serves as a user friendly framework for the city’s ongoing stewardship of its existing natural resources, as well as a guide for further enhancement to meet the needs of an ever changing city. The document provides a clear set of goals, policies, standards, and objectives for achieving the parks mission statement - building community through people, parks, and programs.

Project Manager

Chris Chockley, RLA, LEED AP www.JPR1Source..com

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325 S. Lafayette Blvd.

300 Nibco Parkway,

108 W. Columbia Street

South Bend, IN 46601

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Fort Wayne, IN 46802

P: 574.232.4388

Elkhart, IN 46516

P: 260.422.2522

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