Polk Stanley Wilcox designed and managed the team in repurposing the historic Choctaw Station into the home of the UA Clinton School of Public Service. Insertions of a sculptural stair and elevator into the open lobby highlight the total reorganization of floors, without changing the exterior’s ornate iron and stone-work. In addition to the renovation work, the Clinton School later undertook a significant post-occupancy sustainability assessment and ‘greening’ effort to make the renovated Choctaw Station building as energy-savings and operationally efficient as possible. PSW Architects provided LEED consulting to the Clinton Foundation for this program. In 2014 the building and facilities management group received both LEED Gold EB (Existing Building) and Two Green Globes certification, making Sturgis Hall one of the very oldest inhabited structures in the world to achieve these two ratings.
In 2009, Polk Stanley Wilcox also designed the School’s expansion into the Arkansas Studies Institute, located in the historic Porbeck & Bowman Building (1882). The space includes two classrooms, a seminar room and administrative offices. The multi-building school approach allowed the River Market District to act as a campus.
