State Street Master Plan and Implementation West Lafayette, Indiana
Services Provided
Master Planning
Streetscape Design
Urban Design Oversight
People Involved
Eric Lucas
Awards
2020 Society for College and University Planning Excellence in Landscape Architecture Merit Award
2014 Indiana ASLA Award of Excellence
Plan Document
Enhancing a roadway network through public-private partnership.
The RE-STATE: State Street Master Plan is a vision and strategy seeking to RE-imagine, RE-invest, and RE-make State Street, a main thoroughfare that connects Downtown West Lafayette and Purdue University.
It is a commitment to a new State Street that is connected to recreational, educational, natural, and cultural assets; connected to neighborhoods and transportation networks; and most importantly, connected to the heritage, the character, and the people of West Lafayette and Purdue University.
RE-STATE is a shared vision of the City of West Lafayette, Purdue University, and Purdue Research Foundation. Through a series of public meetings, workshops, and stakeholder meetings, MKSK was able to build consensus around outcomes: thriving, vibrant, and economically diverse commercial districts that withstand the cyclical nature of the academic calendar; thoughtful integration of all modes of travel: vehicular, pedestrian, bicycle, transit; a cohesive street character that is of West Lafayette; distinct identifiers for the special districts along State Street; a continuous tree canopy supporting social, environmental, and economic vibrancy; creative use of green infrastructure tying to both functional and placemaking aspects of the street.
MKSK served as the Urban Design consultant to the City of West Lafayette and Purdue University on the $120 million project to redesign State Street, the Perimeter Parkway, and numerous one-way street conversions. The City and University teamed to jointly deliver the project through an innovative public-private partnership model - the build, operate, and transfer delivery method. The project is the first in the State of Indiana to use this model at the local level.
MKSK is also providing technical specifications and 30% reference plans to be used by the developers during construction. MKSK's role included design and drafting of requirements for street trees, landscape, bioretention cells, sidewalks, site furnishings, public art, plazas, new park spaces, wayfinding, and amenity lighting.
