Client:
City of Crowley
Isabella de la Houssaye, Mayor
(337) 788-4100
Award:
• Louisiana Chapter Of American Society of Landscape Architects, Merit Award, 2001

As a participant in the Main Street Program, the City of Crowley, Louisiana has established goals for the improvement of the downtown area and the historic district. One of these goals resulted in the city receiving a grant from the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry to develop a streetscape master plan. Moore Planning Group, LLC (MPG) was selected to develop this master plan and coordinate the work necessary for grant compliance. MPG worked with the city to successfully meet the following requirements:

• Develop a reforestation plan of the historic Parkerson Avenue, Crowley’s main street - a 115-foot wide divided main street with the art deco-era parish courthouse at its terminus.
• Develop a reforestation plan of the historic Parkerson Avenue, Crowley’s main street - a 115-foot wide divided main street with the art deco-era parish courthouse at its terminus.
• Develop a schematic master plan for the downtown area to restore the turn of the century flavor to the city center.
• Provide a stage for the center’s many fine historic buildings while meeting the transportation, safety, and aesthetic requirements of a city of the new century.
• Provide a master plan that will enable the city to continue to provide and to better accommodate tourist amenities and essential services for the city’s annual Rice Festival which attracts over two hundred thousand people to the area.
• Develop a planting plan for West Hutchinson Avenue, another key boulevard which terminates at the courthouse.
• Develop a planting plan for West Hutchinson Avenue, another key boulevard which terminates at the courthouse.
• Develop a planting plan for West Hutchinson Avenue, another key boulevard which terminates at the courthouse.