Investment Ready Places - APA 2013 Chicago

Investment Ready Places Community Building In

The New American Frontier

#InvestmentReadyPlaces

• RADHIKA MOHAN Mayors’ Institute On City Design

• SCOTT FORD City of South Bend, IN

• JOE NICKOL Urban Design Associates

• ATUL SHARMA Torti Gallas And Partners

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Gateway Cities

Suburban Settlements

The New American Frontier

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The Great Migration

The Great Migration

The New Techno - Mobility

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The Great Reset

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What makes an

Investment Ready Place

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Nourishment For Residents

Stable Supply Of Water

Manageable Infrastructure

Connected Places

Creative Knowledge

Heritage & Living Culture

A New Tool Box

IRP Locator

IRP Checklist

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Town Information Modeling - TIM

“I thought it would be good to get your advice on potential studio project

sites for the graduate urban designers for this coming fall semester.... It

would be great to engage in some of the more challenging issues facing

small working class towns such as some of the sites you have identified

on your investment ready website.....”

-John Griffin, University of Notre Dame

“I just discovered your blog/handbook about Investment Ready Places. My city is a suburban,

mid-sized town taking active steps toward becoming a full-service urban place. We are

investment ready! How do we get added to the IRC map?”

-Pete Sullivan, City Of Redmond, Planning Department

“Love the site. Looks like it covers a lot of ground

that is just as relevant in provincial New Zealand

as it is in the States.

I'm interested in using the IRP Checklist as a way

to canvass the views of local stakeholders and

also get some discussion on the IRP topic going

as it looks to me like a very neat way of

encapsulating what is a large topic.”

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The Mayors’ Institute on City Design Radhika Mohan, AICP/ASLA/LEED GA | Senior Program Manager

APA 2013

PARTNERSHIP

HISTORY

HISTORY Design Thought and Political Activity are Indivisible

--Thomas Jefferson

CITIES

PARTICIPANTS

GOALS 1 EDUCATE: Vocabulary + Awareness

GOALS 2 GUIDE: Understanding Design Process

GOALS 3 GENERATE: Ideas + Solutions

GOALS 4 CREATE: Beautiful Places

TRENDS IN 25+ 1 Project Location

City Center

Neighborhood

Suburban

Greenfield

Brownfield

Waterfront

2 Project Impetus Economic

Environmental

Social/Demographic

Infrastructure

3 Project Format Development

Plan

Policy

4 Project Scale Building

Block

Corridor

District

City

Region

5 Project Goals Sustainability

Historic Preservation

Economic Development

Downtown Revitalization

Code Reform

Transit Oriented Development

Mobility

Urban Infill

6 Project Components Housing

Commercial

Industrial

Mixed Use

Institutional: Education

Institutional: Cultural

Institutional: Civic

Park/Plaza/Open Space

Transit: Parking

Transit: Bus/Rail

Transit: Auto-Oriented

Transit: Bike/Ped

TRENDS IN 25+

1 CODE REFORM

SOLUTIONS

2 OFFICES OF INNOVATION

SOLUTIONS

3 TEMPORARY PROJECTS

SOLUTIONS

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South Bend A Case Study of the New Frontier

Context: A ‘Satellite City”

Facts:

- County Seat, St. Joseph County Indiana - 4th largest City in Indiana - 2010 population – 101,168 - MSA population ~ 250,000

History: - Settled in early 18th Century by Fur Traders - Established as City in 1865 - River played a key role in establishing Studebaker

and Oliver Plow

An Open City

Entrepreneurial Economic Heritage

A Familiar ChallengeAn Open City

Selling South Bend:

A Place to Grow

A New Paradigm: Integrated Hardware & Software

Software: Regenerative Culture

Photo of “The Pool” by Jason Bryant

Software: Social and Civic Capital

Software: Open Government

Results Achieved:

Real time sewer monitoring and

control has reduced wet weather

overflows by 23% and has virtually

eliminated dry weather overflows with

95% reduction.

Software: Beta City - CSO

Software: Beta City – CSO

Software: Beta City – IOC Monitor

Software: enFocus, Innovation and Brain Gain

A New Paradigm: Integrated Hardware & Software

Hardware: Urban Living Opportunities

Hardware: Setting the stage for growth Hardware: Celebrating the River

Before / After

Hardware: Healthy Neighborhoods

Hardware: Platforms for Productive

Innovation

Smart New Direction: Open, Innovative and

Entrepreneurial Place. An Open City

South Bend: The New Frontier is Open

2 TYPES OF TRAITS:

INHERITED + NURTURED

The IRP Nurtured Traits

• Thrifty: Pragmatic use of what is available

• Innovative: Constant tinkering

• Adaptive: Flexible, nimble and quick

• Discovery-driven: Real-time market research

• Sticky: Open to new, often unexpected markets

New Rules for the New Frontier

1. Make no many small plans to realize extraordinary performance

2. Maximize interactions and multipliers

3. Design for both known and unknown possibilities

The Old World Development

Culture

1. Assemble large tracts of cleared land

2. Create a tight master plan

3. Bundle financing (public and private)

4. Build infrastructure (usually public) that

assumes growth to pay for itself

5. Develop parcels (either build-to-suit or

spec)

6. Hope it will all work out as projected

7. Exit strategy

The New World, Investment Ready

Development Culture

1. Focus on areas with high regeneration potential

2. Establish a high social capitalization environment

3. Connect potential end users with potential community entrepreneurs

4. Build the minimum viable product (MVP)

5. Incremental installation of infrastructure

6. Repeat

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