Franklin Associates is pleased to be among a group of volunteers lending their expertise to a redevelopment site challenge in Baton Rouge. The 14 acre parcel at 5825 Airline Highway is the site of the former Earl K. Long Medical Center, which closed its doors in 2013 and sat vacant…
East Baton Rouge Parish Parks & Recreation Commission’s 10-Year Strategic Plan Update The award-winning Baton Rouge Recreation and Parks Commission (BREC) manages 184 parks and numerous recreation programs and leisure activities throughout East Baton Rouge Parish. Franklin Associates is pleased to be a member of the Wallace Roberts &…
Arts & Culture planning for the OSBR Community Franklin Associates is serving on a team led by Lord Cultural Resources of New York to provide examples of how both physical and performing arts can be harnessed to encourage redevelopment in a blighted neighborhood. In December the team completed and…
Lafayette, Louisiana During the fall of 2013 Franklin Associates has had the opportunity to assist Design Workshop with an extremely exciting opportunity to design a brand new hundred acre public park in the middle of Lafayette, Louisiana. Known locally as “the Horse Farm”, the parcel was owned and operated by…
Franklin Associates is currently working with a team assembled by Lord Cultural Resources of New York to help energize the area known as Old South Baton Rouge through arts and culture. Energize Old South Baton Rouge seeks to use arts, culture, and entertainment to revitalize this vital community. By preserving…
CLIENT— AECOM is an internationally recognized firm hired by Vernon Parish as the lead consultant to assist in developing a comprehensive plan. Franklin was tasked with overall public engagement, community outreach, media relations and meeting facilitation. CHALLENGES — Vernon Parish is largest in the state by geographic size. It is…
Shreveport-Caddo Parish Comprehensive Plan CLIENT — Goody Clancy is a nationally recognized leader in community planning. This firm was hired to create a master plan for the Shreveport-Caddo area on behalf of the City of Shreveport and Caddo Parish. APPROACH — Franklin conducted and reviewed stakeholder interviews to under-stand existing…
CLIENT— Industrial Economics, Incorporated is an internationally recognized firm hired by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/U.S. Department of Interior to assist in developing an early restoration plan for the BP Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA). Franklin was tasked with public meeting facilitation at sites across the…
CLIENT — The single largest non-construction contract in the State of Louisiana’s history was awarded to ICF International in 2006. ICF worked with the State to manage the CDBG-funded homeowner and rental assistance programs known as Louisiana’s Road Home Program following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Franklin was tasked with creation…
Franklin Associates assisted the Houston-Galveston Area Council (a regional planning authority) by developing and delivering two rounds of community communications trainings in 2012. The first round created the Community Ambassador Team for the H-GAC’s Regional Plan for Sustainable Development, offering trainings for interested community representatives to learn about the regional…