As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students created complete street designs for Pennsylvania Avenue in Mason City. The City of Mason City has demonstrated a commitment to multi-modal transportation methods by establishing numerous bicycle routes throughout the city; a complete street design of Pennsylvania Avenue builds on the existing […]
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MFA student Ali Hval designed murals with “prairie style” themes for two downtown Mason City locations as part of the community’s “Building Our Brand” campaign. Ali also painted the mural designed for the Brick Furniture building. […]
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MFA student Ali Hval designed murals with “prairie style” themes for two downtown Mason City locations as part of the community’s “Building Our Brand” campaign. […]
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Students from the School of Journalism & Mass Communication created a strategic marketing and communications campaign to encourage civic engagement among Mason City residents and to recruit volunteers to serve on local government boards. Public interest in community and economic development in Mason City, Iowa (pop. 28,079) has been high in recent months as the […]
Students in the School of Art & Art History Graphic Design course designed a community-based mobile app for the City of Mason City. With the smart phones and tablets, the City of Mason City aims to provide a community portal to attractions, services, and resources that will serve both resident and visitors. A Mason-City focused […]
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In a report to the City of Mason City and North Iowa Farmers’ Market Board of Directors, students in the Entrepreneurial Management Institute: Business Consulting class provided recommendations for a permanent location for a community farmers market based on preferred characteristics and potential sites. Mason City’s community farmers market was recently displaced from a highly […]
In a report to the City of Mason City, students in the Entrepreneurial Management Institute: Business Consulting class conducted market research and provided recommendations to attract new riders for the City’s public transit system. By appealing to new target groups and individual riders of the metropolitan public transit system, Mason City officials hope to enhance […]
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