It was a bright, sunny, spring-like day in Bridgton yesterday for our second outreach initiative. The Bridgton Main Street Streetscape Project open house event attracted numerous residents and business owners who stopped by for informal discussions with the Ironwood design group team and Town staff. The next outreach event will be a walking place audit [...]
A team of professionals from Ironwood Design Group, HEB Engineers, and Maine Traffic Resources has been commissioned by the Town of Bridgton, Maine to facilitate public outreach and visioning, streetscape design development, and cost estimating associated with proposed improvements to Main Street between the Civil War monument located at High Street and Pondicherry Square at [...]
Late in 2015, the Town of Nottingham and the Marston Property Exploratory Committee (MPEC) hired Ironwood design group and CMA Engineers to create a conceptual plan for the 45-acre, town-owned Marston Farm property. Recreational fields, community gardens, and walking trails were identified as possible Marston property amenities during a recent NH Listens workshop, and thus, these [...]
Ironwood design has entered into the popular design arena of Houzz.com as a way for potential clients to see the residential capabilities of our group. (Go to: http://www.houzz.com/pro/ironwooddesigngroup/__public). Throughout the Northeast, allied professionals in architecture and interior design reference each other's work here as well. Our posted images feature the firms expertise in all [...]
We are excited to report that on Wednesday evening the Dover City Council approved the construction contract for this transformative project. The new "Complete Streets" design for Silver St., from the Spaulding Turnpike to Central Avenue (4300lf.) will feature traffic calming elements, bicycle lanes, LED street lights, bioretention treeways, a very large rain garden with outdoor classroom, outdoor [...]
Laconia has become the first community in the state to adopt a point system in their Architectural Guidelines. Ironwood worked with SMP Architecture Inc. and Hawk Planning Resources LLC. to come up with a comprehensive point system that will help applicants understand Laconia’s architectural focus before coming to the Board. For example, different areas of [...]
We are very excited! On Friday a beautiful Landscape Forms Neoliviano bench was delivered to our office. Later this week the new bench will be installed outside our front door at the South Tower of the Newmarket Mills. This is just in time for the Newmarket Heritage Festival taking place May31, 2014. If your in the [...]
Two rain gardens were constructed to intercept and filter rain water before it enters Brickyard Pond. In recent years, the pond has seen an increase in algae due to excess nitrogen from neighboring lawns. The Marshall Farms homeowners banded together and received government funding to do this project. With design help from Ironwood design group the project was [...]
We finally have enough followers to have our own web address. We can officially tell all of you to "Like us on Facebook" by clicking on this Facebook Link. We hope to add a button on our webpage in the future.www.facebook.com/ironwooddesigngroup
Save The Date: JANUARY 15th, 2014 Gateway Concept Perspective The Town of Exeter is about to embark on an exciting planning study, one with the potential to significantly transform Portsmouth Avenue. A Planning Board subcommittee looking at zoning and land use regulation alternatives chose to research the applicability of a form-based code approach to planning [...]