At Proformus, we believe great places don’t happen by accident, they emerge through intention, process, and design. Our work focuses on unlocking development potential at every scale, from site-specific strategies to district frameworks, always with an eye toward creating places that are vibrant, adaptable, and built to grow with people over time. →

Placekeeping | Land Use & Development | Urban Planning | Mapping

Chatham Arch 10th Street Traffic Calming Initiative

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📍Indianapolis, Indiana

Placekeeping | Urban Planning

Our tactical urbanism project in the historic Chatham Arch neighborhood of Indianapolis will transform two key intersections, 10th Street & Park Avenue and 10th Street & Broadway—into age-safer spaces with curb bulb outs. We are partnering with AARP to complete the neighborhood’s vision.

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Thinking Big by Thinking Small

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📍Chicago, Illinois

Urban Planning | Land Use + Development

In our latest white paper, we introduce ChiGRUPPEN and the Hyperlocal Parcel Model, a new development framework designed to break up massive project sites into smaller, community-scaled pieces. Instead of waiting for a single developer to shape entire neighborhoods, this model empowers everyday Chicagoans - through individual parcels or cooperative half-blocks—to build the city from the ground up.

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Smart Blocks 

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📍Muncie, Indiana

Urban Planning | Land Use + Development

The Smart Block Model ideates an approach to build a more resilient and sustainable Muncie while allowing for flexibility and breaking up the rigidity of normal land-grabbing necessary for development.

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Mass Ave Next

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📍Indianapolis, Indiana

Placekeeping | Urban Planning | Mapping

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An illustrated street scene featuring a shopping area with a retail store, a residential building, a market, and a museum, with pedestrians and a bicycle on the sidewalk, trees, and garden flowers in the foreground.

Freight Street District

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📍Elkhart, Indiana

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Indy Health District*

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📍Indianapolis, Indiana

Placekeeping | Urban Planning | Mapping

Jeffery Tompkins, founder at Proformus, served as a co-lead planner for the 1,500-acre Indy Health District—the largest planned health innovation district in the Western Hemisphere. In partnership with Perkins&Will as part of the METICULOUS team, he helped shape the urban framework surrounding IU Health’s $4.3B downtown hospital investment.

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Martin University Master Plan* →

📍Indianapolis, Indiana

Placekeeping | Urban Planning | Mapping

Jeffery Tompkins and the team at METICULOUS led a multi-phase master planning process for Martin University grounded in form-based principles that prioritized spatial character, walkability, and context-sensitive design. Our approach reimagined the campus not as an isolated institution but as a central node within a broader neighborhood fabric—integrating it physically and functionally with partners like Edna Martin Christian Center, OneVoice, KIPP Indy, and the Martindale-Brightwood CDC.

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