Boulder IDEAS Competition

In a ceremony held during its Jan. 29th City Council Study Session, the City of Boulder announced winners for its Civic Area Ideas Competition. Of the reported forty plus entries submitted from around the country, “Civic Art” won for the category of Best Civic Facilities and Functions. The “Civic Art” team was comprised of ion community solutions assisted by students of the College of Architecture and Planning - Denver and the ENVD Program - Boulder.  ion, a non-profit technical resource center Co-Directed by Allen Harlow and Ray Kramer, incorporated the work of Patricia Kasch, Michael Blea, Wesley Allingham and Tom Magnuson into the winning entry.

Boulder Center for the Performing Arts

Boulder Center for the Performing Arts is a non-profit seeking to build a Concert Hall facility in the City of Boulder’s Civic Area.  Once built, the facility will include a thousand person state of the art multipurpose performing arts venue.  ion has provided preliminary concepts for the BCPA as an anchor to the Civic Center Area. 

Pueblo Historic East Side Initiative

Located in Pueblo, the East Side Neighborhood Initiative is responsive to community efforts for reinvestment in this largely Hispanic core neighborhood. The Strategic Plan has provided the City of Pueblo and the neighborhood with a series of recommendations that include broader housing choices, enhanced civic opportunities, improved neighborhood services, additional recreational activities and access to healthier food choices. 

Here we growcery

“Here We Grow” is the creation of Celebrity Chef, Craig King. The well received documentary is a chronicle of food deserts and the impacts upon America’s under-served neighborhoods. An outgrowth of the film is Mr. King’s vision for food pantries in the core of communities to be located in all regions of the United States. The vision for the “Here We Growcery” incorporates the tenets of sustainable agriculture – “Farm to Fork” – balanced with healthy eating and active living and food access principles.  

Boulder Emergency Family Assistance Association: Lot 12 Transitional Housing

Located in North Boulder directly across 16th St. from EFAA’s Hayman Center, the Lot 12 four-plex supplements the organization’s stock of transitional units in the community.

* Members of ion contributed to this work under the direction of community by design

HARP Vision Plan

The Urban Land Conservancy (ULC), in partnership with The Denver Foundation/Strengthening Neighborhoods, the City of Denver’s Office of Economic Development and the Holly Area Redevelopment Project ( HARP) Steering Committee prepared a Vision Plan to help guide reinvestment in this area.  The HARP includes a six-block area including and surrounding the former Holly Square Shopping Center located between 33rd and 35th Avenues and Hudson and Holly Streets. This work placed a focus on viable and sustainable solutions built upon the community’s Good Neighbor Policies.

* Members of ion contributed to this work under the direction of the author of the plan; community by design

HARP Master Plan

Building upon the success of the HARP Vision Plan, a strategic master plan was prepared to further define and refine reinvestment opportunities in the area.  One outcome is the recent funding by the Anschutz Family Foundation of the Nancy P. Anschutz Community Center and Jack Vickers Boys & Girls Club.

* Members of ion contributed to this work under the direction of the author of the plan; community by design

Salina Residence

Members of ion's core staff donated their services to one of the residents of Salina, CO. who lost her home in the Four Mile Canyon fire.