1999 MASLA Honor Award for Public Planning
In 1992 the City of Mound, a small community on Lake Minnetonka, commissioned HKGi to manage their downtown revitalization effort called Mound Visions, a community-based approach to reinvigorating Mound’s downtown through promotion, business enhancement and redevelopment. The ongoing Visions Plan includes a number of initiatives that together will create a new, pedestrian-oriented "main street" in the midst of a new retail district.
Initiatives recommended by the Plan include the Lost Lake Canal, a restored canal that once carried pleasure boats from "the Big Lake" to Mound during the area's resort heyday; the Lost Lake Greenway, a trail and custom-designed boardwalk/pier structure connecting the new downtown to the Canal; and the realignment of County Road 15, which will route through traffic around the downtown core and also open up additional space for new downtown development.