Civic & Community

Attracting and retaining residents often drives community capital improvement plans. Our team understands the importance of proving access to parks and shelters, the availability of cultural facilities, and knowing you’ll have quick response times from your police and fire departments. Given our experience and wide range of capabilities, many city and state officials make us their go-to source for all their community projects.

INVISION served as Associate Architect to Robert A. M. Stern Architects for the design of Jacksonville’s Main Downtown Library — an iconic civic landmark that celebrates the city’s architectural heritage while embracing its role …
INVISION designed the new headquarters for the Florida Department of Revenue, creating a unified and efficient campus that embodies functionality, sustainability, and employee well-being. Situated on a 47-acre site in …
The City of Grimes needed to accommodate a largely expanded public collection and desired to serve as a new community hub for the latest neighborhood additions. They commissioned INVISION to design a new public library, the …
The City of Colfax had outgrown its existing leased space and desired to relocate to a vacant building they had acquired – a turn-of-the-century armory building. The big question for the design team was ‑how are we going to …
This volunteer project was an expansion of the existing Cedar Falls Veterans Park, initiated by a group of citizens. The community wanted to expand the use of the park by providing communal space in the form of a park shelter …
The Warren Opera House went from being the center of Greenfield public life in the 1890s to a disused relic by the 1980s. After the building was gifted to Main Street Greenfield, it spurred the foundation of the E.E. Warren …
Following the flooding of their existing facilities in 2008, the city of Cedar Falls worked with INVISION to master plan a new facility. The site was chosen for city growth and sized for future expansions. The city wanted the …
Utilizing Vision Iowa funds, the city of Waterloo undertook a downtown revitalization project in 2012, termed River Renaissance,” working with INVISION to plan and design a gathering place for civic events. The goal of the …