Luckett and Farley collaborated closely with the City of New Albany to revitalize its downtown corridor. The relocation of the city hall to a beautifully restored historical building on Main Street was a catalyst for improving pedestrian safety and the overall visual appeal of this prominent area.
Chickasaw Park focused on a series of improvements to provide increase programmatic activities and accessibility to Chickasaw Pond by implementing a portion of the park’s larger master plan.
Luckett & Farley works often for the Louisville Zoo. Recently the design team re-imagined the old train depot station to create a multi-functional event space.
The City of Newport wanted to ensure Festival Park was effectively utilized to support the community and bustling commercial district for recreation, passive activities, festivals, and events while also being sensitive to ecological and use issues associated with increased flooding along the historic Cincinnati River.
Luckett & Farley provided campus master planning for the University of Louisville Foundation. The site is approximately 44 acres on the University of Louisville’s Belknap Campus (formally the site of Kentucky Trailer Manufacturing Company). The property will now house a research park, including both academic and private programs and activities. The research park will focus on technology, science and engineering for green technologies. In addition to research facilities, incubator space is available for start-up companies associated with the College of Business and the Speed School of Engineering.
The master plan for the City of Fulton parks involved the evaluation of six park sites within the city boundary. The project involved working with the community and the parks board to determine program elements for each park and further providing visualizations and video flyovers to generate enthusiasm within the community and assist in fundraising. The goal for these parks was to preserve and enhance existing parks within the city while responding to current outdoor recreation trends in a sustainable and fiscally responsible manner.
To allow Jefferson College to continue to attract students, promote a lively academic environment, and provide a higher level of sustainability, Luckett & Farley developed a master plan for their main campus in downtown Louisville to improve safety and define a greater sense of place.
The removal and renovation of two major buildings within the scholastic core on Western Kentucky University’s campus were the catalyst for the Hilltop planning study. The study evaluated and assessed the pedestrian and vehicular circulation opportunities associated with the Hilltop, both a defining topographical character of the campus and the WKU scholastic services core. Addressing these building changes, Luckett & Farley developed a plan that will maintain a walkable campus, limit or remove vehicles, reduce traffic congestion and parking demand, minimize pedestrian and vehicular conflicts, and remove parking from the hill rerouted Hilltop Drive.
We prepared the design as a task order under an IDIQ A/E design contract for the 88ABW, Civil Engineering Group at Wright-Patterson AFB. Luckett & Farley was tasked with updating the Human Effectiveness (Human Performance Wing, “HPW”) Master Plan to replace a 2006 pre-BRAC master plan. Updating the plan included documenting space, infrastructure and adjacency requirements of the HPW, and providing concepts for the consolidation of administrative, laboratory, and support functions. HPW functions are currently dispersed in facilities throughout Area B at Wright-Patterson AFB. The facilities vary in degree of physical condition and adequacy to serve the HPW needs. The current conditions create inefficiencies and limit collaboration. Consolidation will facilitate “net-centric” research, improve delivery time, lower costs in developing products, and speed up integration and delivery of training programs.
Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company retained Luckett & Farley, along with consultant Sigma Planning Group, to assist the Facilities Group in developing a five year master plan. The utility owns or leases 68 properties located within 12 operational areas throughout Kentucky and northern Virginia.
We developed the master plan to assist the Facilities Group in more efficiently and effectively managing its construction and maintenance activities at the facilities. In general, the plan included developing a quantifiable prioritization methodology for directing these activities based upon each facility’s condition. With multiple facilities located within each operational area, part of the outcome of the plan included factors that would allow the utility to determine whether to invest in repairing/upgrading individual facilities within an operational area or relocating all the facilities into a single master facility (consolidation) within that area.
The Jefferson Memorial Forest Tom Wallace Lake Recreation Area, comprises approximately 27 acres of Louisville’s Jefferson Memorial Forest, which holds the distinction of being the largest municipal urban forest in the United States. Luckett & Farley oversaw the development of a master plan for the Tom Wallace Lake Recreation Area. Additionally, we provided architecture, engineering, and landscape architecture services as they related to the development of the master plan.
Luckett & Farley developed a master plan for Northern New Mexico College in order to capture a long-term vision for the college, looking ahead 10, 20, and even as far as 50 years into the future.
The need for the plan was generated when various sites were being considered for upcoming construction projects like student housing. The resulting plan consists primarily of a land use study with consideration given to current and projected trends in population and enrollment, as well as educational programs and activities.
The initial effort to begin the master plan included verification of the existing conditions, including campus boundaries, contours, existing buildings, paving, parking, roads, walks, and utilities. Additionally, the team identified adjacent properties for future acquisition that will be needed to realize the vision of the master plan and accommodate the projected growth and prosperity of the college.
During the planning process, numerous design issues were explored, including but not limited to the following:
Luckett & Farley provided architectural and engineering design services for master planning and design of Phase I construction for the state veterans cemetery located in Grant County, Kentucky.
Emerson Park was designed by Luckett & Farley for Louisville Metro Parks as a new corner lot park in Louisville’s Schnitzelburg neighborhood. The park includes a small paved walking path, seating, and a bandstand for concerts and picnic activities for the historic German neighborhood.