Turnberry Traditional Town Development (State College, PA)

ELA Group was engaged by a developer to provide design and engineering services for a multi-family development in Ferguson Township. The 126-acre site was designed with a mix of dwellings, including single-family, townhome, and apartment dwellings, neighborhood clubhouses, and open space. The development’s total build-out includes more than 900 dwelling units.

ELA Engineers designed the main road through the development as a mixed-use collector road with a capacity of more than 6,900 vehicles a day. This new road connected two existing collector roads and tied the community together strategically. This design provided vehicle volume relief on an adjacent local highway.

A roundabout feature was designed along the new mixed-use collector road, providing traffic calming measures while maintaining free-flowing traffic circulation. The roundabout was bordered on one side by a pedestrian sidewalk connected to a public transit pick-up/drop-off point and on the other side by a ten-foot-wide shared-use path to provide off-road multi-model transportation alternatives. Ornamental fencing was placed around the roundabout, and decorative street lighting fixtures were installed to promote a pedestrian-scale/pedestrian-oriented neighborhood.