CONSULTANT TEAM

THE LAKOTA GROUP provides services involving Planning, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Historic Preservation and Community Relations. The firm, located in Chicago, was established in 1993 to serve a wide range of public and private sector clients in urban, suburban, and rural settings.

Lakota's professionals are widely recognized for their large-scale and small-scale planning and design projects and community participation processes. In its first 16 years, Lakota completed more than 600 projects in over 200 towns and cities involving 64,000 acres of land, 31,000 units of housing, and 52 million square feet of building space. Projects have included comprehensive plans, parks/plazas/trails/greenways, waterfronts, downtowns, historic preservation plans, commercial areas and corridors, town centers, transit-oriented developments, industrial and business parks, corporate campuses, medical districts, mixed-use developments, large community areas, an 8,000-acre new town, and 26-mile river corridor.

The firm's approach is reflected in its name, Lakota, which is a Native American word meaning allies. Lakota's professionals share a strong respect for land, a sense of community, and a desire to bring people together to work as allies for positive change.
Lakota will be the project leader, planner, and urban designer for the MacArthur Boulevard Redevelopment Study.

THE COMMUNITY AND LAND USE ECONOMIC GROUP (CLUE) specializes in Economic Analysis, Business Development Planning, Policy, and Evaluation Services for traditional downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts. The firm's senior partners have almost 40 years of experience in commercial district revitalization and management in cities and communities throughout the country.

The firm has first-hand experience with the daily challenges and long-term opportunities of commercial district economic development. Local and county governments, business improvement districts, development authorities, and private real estate interests rely on the market expertise of CLUE. The firm provides its clients with a thorough understanding of market conditions and trends in rapidly changing retail and business environments.
CLUE will analyze market trends and opportunities for the MacArthur Boulevard study area and create a corridor business development plan, prepare development scenarios as well as assist in the crafting of the final plan.

GEWALT HAMILTON ASSOCIATES is a professional engineering and transportation planning firm licensed and registered in the State of Illinois. For nearly three decades, Gewalt Hamilton has been providing civil and transportation engineering services to municipal governments, townships, county and state agencies, school districts, park districts, community colleges, and private organizations. Established in 1981, the firm is committed to providing creative, responsive, and cost-effective solutions for projects that positively impact our communities and our environments. Headquartered in Vernon Hills, with branch offices in Chicago and Gurnee, Gewalt Hamilton staff includes 52 professional engineers, surveyors, transportation planners, environmental specialists, CAD technicians, and construction managers.

The firm's professional engineers are registered in the states of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Tennessee, and the Province of Alberta, Canada.
Gewalt-Hamilton will analyze transportation planning and parking management issues for the MacArthur Boulevard study area.