Rotary Selects Five Teams to Develop Proposals

The Request for Qualifications – found elsewhere on this website - was sent out electronically and mailed to a broad range of potential applicants in early January 2006, Responders to the RFQ were asked to pull together teams of architects, landscape architects, engineering firms and/or artists to propose a design for a landmark, iconic gateway to be created in the I-65/West Street area. This area is adjacent to the West Street Rotary Greenway created in 1998 for Rotary's International Convention held here in Indianapolis.
Fifteen teams submitted their qualifications, philosophies and statements at the end of February. March deliberations by two panels of experts and stakeholders resulted in selection of the following five teams each of which will receive $7500 stipends to create conceptual design proposals by late June.

• Kevin K. Parsons & Associates
  Project Leader: Kevin Parsons
  Woolpert, Inc.: Infrastructure, Engineering
  Edwards and Kelsey, Inc.: Traffic Engineering Gateway Consulting
  Greg Hull: Conceptualization  Design Consulting
• Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf
  Team Leader: Barth Henrickson
  Boody Fine Arts and Public Art and Practice: Arts Consulting, Project Leadership
  George Neubert: Museum Director, Art Consultant
  Fishers Marantz Stone: Lighting
  Schneider Engineering - 3-D Animation • Engineering
• Ratio
  Team Leaders: Bill Brown, John Jackson
  2nd Globe Studios: Art, Design, Fabrication
  Fink Roberts Petrie, Inc: Structural and Civil Engineering
• CBA, Inc.
  Project Leader: Joann Green
  Brownstone Design:  Environmental Graphics
  Burgess & Nipple: Civil/Site, Transportation Engineering
  Blackburn Architects:  Architect of Record, Public Art,  Administration
  Denton Coker Marshall: Architects, Monument/Icon Design
  Schuler Shook: Lighting Design
  Lord: Cultural Asset Management
  Newlands: 3D Visualization,  Animation
• NiNebark, Inc.
  Team Leader: Eric Fulford
  Electroland: Public Space, Interactive technologies
  Parsons: Transportation Engineering, Life Cycle Costs
  Five2Five Design: Community Outreach Advocacy Architecture
  ACS Sign Systems: Custom Lighting Installations
  William Marquez Innovative 3-D Construction Technology
  Rodney Reid: Historical Awareness, Design
  Klika-Stinson Group: structural design, environmental strategies, engineering services

Visual renderings and materials will then be displayed at several public places for comment by everyone interested. Panels will also reconvene, with attention to public comments, to select a final monumental gateway design by mid-to-late July.

Gateway Committee Rotarians who have worked long and hard in this phase include Jim Kienle, Jennifer Hobbs, Michael Conly, Jeff Mader, Mark Winzenread, Lenore Tedesco, Linda Brimmer, Kevin Markey, and Joe Gaafar. The entire Rotary Environment and Beautification Committee serves as main advisor and facilitator the effort.

The committee, as a part of the Rotary Club of Indianapolis Downtown, works in close conjunction with the City of Indianapolis, BOS Community Development Corporation, Indianapolis Downtown Inc., Clarian Health Partners, IUPUI, IPS, INDOT, Crispus Attucks School and African Heritage Center, Indiana Avenue Cultural District, the Canal District Plan, BioCrossroads, JMK Development, Veolia, and Citizen’s Gas, the Ransom Place and Fayette Street Neighborhood Associations and MEDIC Community Organization.

The Partnership is constantly aware of other projects on line in the community, such as The Cultural Trail and the Indiana Avenue Master Plan, both of which we hope to inform and connect with the effort to create a cohesive, vibrant and new face for our city.
Partners are added continuously as the process grows.

Fundraising activity is gearing up as the final conceptual designs are created. Anyone interested in more information is welcome to call the Rotary Gateways Partnership at 317-849-0133 or e-mail: carolearts@mac.com.