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Our Team

The planning team (composed of Wightman, The Arsh Group and Fluid Communications) will bring its  qualifications and talent by facilitating a community planning process that will include engaging residents and establishing a robust plan, encouraging vital corridors, and promoting development in opportune areas.

Based on previous experience developing comprehensive plans for communities throughout the region, the team will coordinate with leadership to shape a planning process that will entail regular working meetings with the City of Portage leadership, staff, and involvement of community stakeholders throughout the process.

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Wightman is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm with a dynamic team of more than 200 professionals with offices throughout the region including the City of Portage.
The firm will lead the planning efforts with focus on the areas of 
transportation, infrastructure, and community facilities.

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The Arsh Group Inc. is a Merrillville-based planning firm with more than twenty-five years of local experience providing planning service throughout the region. The firm will focus on land use, urban design and neighborhoods

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Fluid Communications, a Gary, IN based public relations and community engagement firm. The firm will coordinate public engagement activities, utilizing state of art technology for a complete community engagement and participation

©2026 by Fluid Communicatons LLC

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