South Downtown Corridor Improvements Project

Indianapolis, Indiana

KPA was part of a multi-disciplinary design team for this downtown transportation enhancement and ‘gateway’ project. Included with the street reconstruction were enhanced entries into the City from I-70 at the McCarty Street ramps, Madison Avenue, McCarty Street, South Meridian Street, and Merrill Street. These streets serve and surround the expanded corporate Faris campus of Eli Lilly & Co., and a new visual ‘high image’ streetscape was required. KPA designed the project that includes new streetscape plantings throughout the street rights-of-way. New Saturn ring street lights, deciduous and coniferous street trees, flowering bulbs, perennials, shrubs and ornamental trees complete the palate. Each street hosts a varying, yet integrated application of plantings designed for both function and aesthetics. The area was irrigated to insure prolonged plant life and to maximize the vegetation impact. KPA also provided construction inspection and administration.