How Green Infrastructure Captured the Heart of Lexington: Town Branch Commons - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Recorded On: 10/28/2023
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Weaving 2.5 miles of green infrastructure and multi-modal transit through Lexington, Town Branch Commons represents a decade of public-private partnership, investment, and painstaking coordination. Hear from project leaders, including the designer behind the concept, a former agency lead behind its realization, and a local landscape architect who worked on its implementation.
Learning objectives:
- Dive into the behind-the-scenes process underpinning large-scale urban transformations and green infrastructure projects—including the complexities of interagency and public-private partnerships extended over a decade.
- Learn project-specific tactics to preserve the essence of a visionary design concept through rigorous funding requirements and other procedural challenges.
- Examine stewardship for longer-term design team collaborations—especially in the context of changing firms, business models, and regional markets.
- Learn about navigating public and private properties at a downtown scale, applicable especially to those working on public landscapes and planning initiatives in mid-sized cities.
Kate Orff, FASLA
Founder and President
SCAPE
Kate Orff is the founder of SCAPE, a landscape architecture and urban design practices with offices in New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. She is also a Professor at Columbia University. Kate is the author of Toward an Urban Ecology (2016) and Petrochemical America (2012) with the photographer Richard Misrach. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017.
Jeff Fugate
Associate Professor of Extension
University of Kentucky College of Design
Jeff Fugate is an Associate Professor in the UK School of Architecture, where he co-leads Studio Appalachia and Studio Louisville. Fugate has a two-decade career in community development prior to joining academia. His current research interests lie at the intersection of community-engaged design solutions for contemporary social and climate-related challenges. Prior to joining the University, Fugate led the Lexington Downtown Development Authority, where he successfully implemented multiple public space and community development projects. Fugate holds degrees from the University of Kentucky and MIT and serves on the Lexington Affordable Housing Fund and Fayette County Industrial Authority.
Patrick L. Henry, ASLA
Studio Design Leader
Gresham Smith
Patrick is an experienced design leader for Gresham Smith's Land Planning market. He is energized by the feedback intrinsic to large-scale public projects. Patrick led the design documentation and construction administration of the $20M Town Branch Commons project, a 2.2-mile urban public space and green infrastructure project in Lexington. He has also guided the detailed master planning at Clarks Landing, Louisville Metro Parks - Bingham Park, Louisville Metro Public Works - Olmsted Parkway Improvements, and the New Albany City Hall Plaza.
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