Kodak Hawkeye Regenerative Campus

The framework established a phased strategy beginning with environmental and structural due diligence, site stabilization, utility modernization, and reuse of the most viable historic buildings. The feasibility approach prioritized retention and rehabilitation of the campus’s substantial existing concrete structures, while exploring selective mass-timber infill, additions, mezzanines, and other hybrid structural systems where new construction could be integrated with the historic industrial fabric. This approach could accommodate contemporary uses with substantially less structural intervention while conserving embodied carbon and preserving the scale and character of the Hawkeye complex. Later phases considered an innovation and research district, mixed-income housing, neighborhood services, and a renewable district-energy system utilizing the site’s hydroelectric potential. The plan connects industrial-heritage preservation with brownfield recovery, employment creation, housing, technology, clean energy, public-private finance, and long-term tax-base growth.