CommunityScale

Downtown Hammond, IN Master Plan (CNU award)

With the announcement of new commuter rail service to Chicago and the emergence of a surprisingly robust housing market demand, downtown Hammond is ready to punctuate a decades-long economic decline and jump-start its downtown revitalization.

While at Stantec, worked with urban planner Jeff Speck to craft a master plan to retrofit Hammond’s downtown core into walkable neighborhood through public realm interventions, publicly and privately owned real estate rehabilitation and redevelopment, and a dramatically improved multi-mobility network leveraging
future transit service and existing regional bike corridors.

Speck & Associates and Stantec’s Urban Places won a Merit Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category of the CNU 2023 Charter Awards.

Jeff Sauser

Jeff Sauser, co-founding Principal at CommunityScale, has over 10 years experience leading urban design and planning projects for public and private sector clients in complex urban contexts across the country. His work emphasizes the role of housing policy and production in driving economic development progress and creating opportunities for socioeconomic mobility across the community. He is particularly interested in applying emerging big data resources and AI tools to help clients and communities plan smarter and more proactively.