Welcome to our new website! Like so many of our clients and friends, here at Gossman Group we decided to use some of our time at home during the Pandemic to reassess and refresh both personally and professionally. While still very busy with several projects we took some time to look back over the last five years of Gossman Group and where we were headed in the next five years. We’ve captured our thoughts in our new website where we hope our commitment to collaboration and our passion for our role in contributing to a community’s vitality and prosperity are clearly shown. Designed by web design company FreshySites, our new website focuses on our services and, through our redesigned project pages, highlights the success of our clients. In fact, the success of our clients, both private and public, will be something you will see a great deal of in this new section. We want to share how historic communities like Findlay and Tiffin, Ohio have implemented their community visions and how new communities like Evans Farm in Lewis Center, Ohio are putting down roots that will sustain them for a century. At Gossman Group we are not content to just nudge lines or do a pretty plan. We want to see that plan implemented, that building constructed.
You will also notice that I’ve appeared on the “about” page. Yes, as we start 2021 and over the next 6 months, I will be transitioning from my 30 year local government career to private consulting. I’m excited to join Craig’s talented pool of design and planning collaborators and look forward to adding more resources in the areas of public engagement, strategic planning, small city planning and zoning. I’m also pleased to add the I’ve recently been certified as a Strategic Doing™ Workshop Leader. Strategic Doing™ is a discipline that focuses on teaching people how to form collaborations quickly, move them towards measurable outcomes and make adjustments along the way to address the complex challenges we face in our communities.
As we begin 2021 Gossman Group looks forward to the several projects we have moving forward which just goes to show you that our communities are resilient and made up of talented individuals that will not be deterred. In Morgantown, WVA, we are assisting the Morgantown Area Partnership with a Planned Unit Development (PUD) proposal for a new mixed-use development between the city’s historic downtown and West Virginia University. The development will replace existing sub-standard, and frankly scary, single family student group homes with new modern apartments, public open space and commercial services. In Findlay, Craig is working on a new development for an empty lot in the 500 block of South Main Street in Findlay. The original Argyle building was destroyed by fire in 2012 and the lot has sat empty since it was cleared after the fire. These and other projects, like a very cool new music venue in Marysville, Ohio, will be highlighted in my next few news postings as we spend our winter quarantining and zooming!