Franklin, IN

Comprehensive Plan

HWC completed an update to the City’s 2002 Comprehensive Plan. This update focused on new opportunities and goals for future development within the City and supporting recent successful efforts at downtown revitalization. Major ideas identified during the plan included a renewed focus on core neighborhood revitalization, emphasis on improving aging infrastructure, continued reinvestment in downtown redevelopment, encouraging a broader mix of housing options, and developing the I-65 gateway corridor to maximize its full potential.

In 2015, our team completed the I-65 Economic Development Plan for Franklin with a focus to improve economic success of the community’s primary eastern gateway along I-65. The I-65 Interchange Economic Development Plan was intended to redevelop the interchange and create a dynamic gateway into the community. The planning process focused on 420 acres and included interchange-specific strategies and communitywide economic development goals.

Now complete, the gateway has resulted in new restaurants, retail, and commercial investment in the corridor totaling over $220 million.