GRAEF RECOGNIZED BY WISCONSIN CHAPTER OF AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION

GRAEF, a Wisconsin-based engineering and consulting firm, was recently honored with two American Planning Association-Wisconsin (APA-WI) awards: an “Innovations in Planning” award recognizing GRAEF’s achievements in municipal planning for the City of Oak Creek’s Drexel Town Square project and a “Student Project” award recognizing the final thesis of UW-Milwaukee graduate student and GRAEF planner Craig Huebner, which focused on a Milwaukee streetcar system.

“We are pleased to see our planning team and young talent recognized by APA-WI,” said John Kissinger, CEO of GRAEF. “GRAEF is committed to helping create a vibrant vision for our communities that meets citizens’ needs while remaining dedicated to sustainability, and our planning team is truly an asset in achieving that vision.”

GRAEF received the “Innovations in Planning” award from APA-WI for the Sustainable Development Guidebook GRAEF prepared for Drexel Town Square, an 85-acre site located in downtown Oak Creek, Wis. The guidebook provides comprehensive information covering sustainability and green infrastructure plans for developers. The City of Oak Creek and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District (MMSD) enlisted the help of GRAEF’s planning group to develop a plan for an economically successful and environmentally sustainable town center. The guidebook provides diagrams and photos to aid the green infrastructure planning process and meets the long-term sustainability goals for MMSD, while providing a plan for a major redevelopment within the City of Oak Creek. 

Huebner, a third year student in the joint Architecture and Urban Planning Masters program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, received the “Student Project” award, which recognizes an outstanding student planning project.  Huebner’s final thesis, titled ‘NEXT STOP: Place-making along the Milwaukee Streetcar route,’ identified “nodes” along the streetcar line and proposed urban design solutions for each, including new development proposals at vacant sites and ideas for further strengthening existing buildings and places.

About GRAEF

GRAEF is an employee-owned, full-service engineering and consulting firm with proven expertise in planning; landscape and industrial architecture; operations consulting; and structural, civil, transportation, MEP, and environmental engineering. GRAEF serves public and private clients from its offices in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Madison, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; and Orlando, Florida. For more than 50 years, GRAEF has demonstrated its commitment to continuously adapting to meet the changing needs of the industry and its clients. For more information, visit www.GRAEF-usa.com.