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In partnership with Shepherdsville’s local leaders, Luckett & Farley designed a holistic wellness center to enhance community amenities, creating a vibrant hub for recreation and connection in this growing Louisville suburb.
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The City of Louisville sought to enhance Jefferson Memorial Forest’s accessibility and ecological resilience, ensuring it remains a cherished natural resource for generations. Focused on the Tom Wallace Lake Recreation Area, the city aimed to improve access, expand recreational amenities, and preserve the surrounding environment.
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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.
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Louisville Metro Parks sought to revitalize the historic Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Chickasaw Park in Louisville’s West End to address longstanding community concerns, environmental challenges, and the need for safe, accessible recreational spaces. The city envisioned a transformation that would foster community trust, improve public amenities, and restore the natural beauty and functionality of Chickasaw Pond, creating a vibrant hub for recreation, education, and environmental stewardship.
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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.
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The City of Newport reimagined Festival Park to enhance its role as a vibrant community hub, supporting recreation, festivals, and events while addressing ecological concerns tied to increased river flooding. The new master plan streamlines the park’s layout from three tiers to a single elevated platform above the frequent floodplain, ensuring long-term usability, maintenance ease, and aesthetic appeal in response to climate change.
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The Saga Spirits Distillery Master Plan was developed to honor tradition while embracing innovation, ensuring the campus reflects generations of craftsmanship while setting the stage for future growth. Rooted in Kentucky’s bourbon heritage, the Henderson family sought to create a brand that celebrates this legacy and its deep ties to place. Luckett & Farley’s multidisciplinary team created a strategic roadmap that integrates sustainable design, thoughtful site planning, and immersive storytelling, resulting in a seamless convergence of nature, architecture, and the art of distillation.
The Master Plan is structured into five key sections, each addressing critical aspects of the project:
- Visioning Session: The Planning Team collaborated with branding and marketing consultants to establish a design direction that emphasized nature, art, and Kentucky’s landscape, creating a sense of awe while shaping the distillery’s identity and visitor experience. developing a structural framework that enhanced the visitor experience while honoring the distillation process
- Site Analysis: The location presented unique challenges, bordered by industrial, commercial, and agricultural landscapes, while also being in proximity to other distilleries and a secondary site, the Kentucky Castle. The analysis informed key design decisions by evaluating topography, drainage, viewsheds, and zoning, ensuring the site aligned with the brand vision while creating a cohesive and immersive experience.
- Final Site Concept: This phase defined the optimal layout, integrating campus planning, circulation, security, and utilities while balancing visitor experience, production efficiency, and safety. The design also accommodated tax incentive requirements, ensuring financial viability while maintaining a seamless brand experience.
- Final Architectural Concept: This phase provided a more detailed framework, addressing specific program requirements for tourism, hoteling spaces, entertainment areas, and eco-tourism, while also ensuring the distillery functioned as a fully operational facility. It included conceptual floor plans, design narratives, and recommendations for mechanical, electrical, and fire suppression systems, merging production and hospitality into a cohesive architectural vision.
- Budgets and Phasing: This section outlined preliminary cost estimates and implementation planning, ensuring that tax incentives, infrastructure, and phased construction aligned with financial and operational goals.
Distilleries are highly complex facilities requiring multidisciplinary expertise to integrate operations, visitor experience, and branding. This was especially true for Saga Spirits, where complex programmatic requirements and phased development demanded a strategic, flexible approach. Luckett & Farley’s, in-house team, with deep industry knowledge in the distilled spirits sector, played a critical role in shaping a cohesive and strategic vision. While different disciplines contributed at various phases, our process is most effective because we can organically collaborate at any stage, allowing for open-ended solutions that lead to better outcomes.
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As a growing suburb of Louisville, Bardstown sought to enhance resources for its citizens and strengthen its charming historic downtown. The vision centers on developing a premier downtown recreational complex and park adjacent to city government facilities and local amenities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.