by Natalie Young | Sep 21, 2023 | Blog, Featured Posts, Past Projects
During the Spring 2023 semester, IQC worked with the town of Westville, OK, on an array of projects to revitalize the town and improve accessibility and connectivity. One of the main objectives of the project was to design a concept for converting a large, empty...
by Natalie Young | Sep 19, 2023 | Blog, Featured Posts
The Oklahoma and Central States AIA Awards Banquet was held this past Friday, September 15, 2023. There, IQC’s own Ron Frantz was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award and received a standing ovation. This award commemorates Ron’s lifetime of...
by Jake Lange | Nov 1, 2022 | Blog, Featured Posts
Garden Oaks Elementary School In 2021, the Alpha Community Foundation of Oklahoma purchased a vacant Oklahoma City Public School building with the goal of converting the facility into a community center. The former Garden Oaks Elementary School is now set to be...
by Rebecca Blaine | Jul 18, 2022 | Blog, Featured Posts
This summer the IQC (Institute for Quality Communities) partnered with Kay County TSET (Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust) and to host the first ever Oklahoma Towns: Walkability and Placemaking Summit. Due to COVID-19, the highly anticipated biennial Placemaking...
by admin | May 12, 2022 | Blog, Featured Posts
Two IQC project partners recently won nearly $150,000 in funding from Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) to enhance public spaces and walkability.Both of these IQC projects were made possible in part by sponsorship from the Oklahoma Municipal League,...
by OU IQC | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog, Events, Featured Posts
This fall, we hosted a new program called the Quality Communities Retreat sponsored by the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and Oklahoma Municipal League. Between two retreat sessions, we gathered representatives from eight Oklahoma communities, along with a...
