In 2015, the City of Wooster initiated a process to create a downtown strategic plan and selected OHM Advisors to lead the project. Through a community-based design process, the team worked together with the City, Main Street Wooster, and business owners and conducted extensive research to discover people’s desires for their downtown. One outcome of the project was the development of a downtown central plaza. The plaza adaptively reused a public parking lot, converting a single, auto-centric space into a dynamic multipurpose community park and plaza. Additional future projects from the initiative include the planning and design for a new streetscape and the conversion of two existing alleyways into pedestrian connectors.
This award was presented to Main Street Wooster, The City of Wooster, and OHM Advisors.