Hutchinson Downtown and Growth Area Planning

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For more than 20 years, HKGi has worked with city staff and community stakeholders to develop plans and design and implement improvement projects to guide redevelopment and enhance the character and the visitor experience in downtown Hutchinson.

In 2003 HKGi completed the award-winning Downtown Revitalization Master Plan. A decade later, HKGi led the creation of the Downtown Action Plan, an update that reflected completed implementation initiatives and emphasized a new set of action-oriented initiatives. In 2023 HKGi began work on a new update to help guide the next chapter in downtown’s transformation, and in 2025 we assisted the city with two additional downtown planning initiatives: exploring strategies and concepts for a new festival street and evaluating development concepts for a key redevelopment site along the Crow River.

These plans have helped the city build on its many advantages: the Luce Line State Trail and the Crow River run downtown, both of which offer attractive outdoor experiences; the downtown has a traditional development pattern with ample sites for infill and redevelopment projects; the downtown features several historic properties; and Hutchinson enjoys an active arts and cultural community with passion for the city.

In 2021 HKGi also worked with city staff and stakeholders to explore potential development concepts in several of Hutchinson’s growth areas.  These concepts identify development patterns, yields, and infrastructure needs for several study areas in the northern, eastern, and southern growth areas of Hutchinson.