Commercial / Retail / Municipal & Agency
Commercial and retail projects are quite different from the other categories mentioned. While site furnishings and theming are important in streetscapes, the theming is often more specialized and detailed in the commercial and retail projects. The landscape elements are often significant architectural features.
Streetscapes / Parks / Trails / Open Space
Streetscapes, Parks, Trails and Open Space is a wide and varied category. While many of these elements may be part of a larger project, they are sometimes treated as separate projects, or at least separate plans and working within these categories requires unique skill sets.
Project Experience
Steve’s broad range of design and construction experience falls into three main categories:
Land Development
Streetscape / Parks / Trails / Open Space
Commercial / Retail / Municipal and Agency
There are often elements from all three of these categories within a project. For instance, large land developments often include parks, open space with trails, and of course streetscapes, as well as other elements and that fall into the other categories. An attempt has been made to categorize the projects in the most logical category.
Land Development
Land Development is a large category and much of Steve's experience through the 90's and early 2000’s, during the development boom (the real estate bubble as it was called by some) was devoted to the land development category.
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Land Development
Land Development is a large category and much of Steve's experience through the 90's and early 2000’s, during the development boom (the real estate bubble as it was called by some) was devoted to the land development category.
Working closely with Land Planners, he helped many large developers gain entitlement approvals. Then he and his teams, most often lead by the developer, which often included Civil Engineers, Surveyors, Mappers, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineers, Dry Utility Consultants, Lighting Consultants, and the like, refined the concepts in the design development process. The construction document phases followed swiftly and effectively and the plans gained the necessary approvals from the local agencies. Construction of some of these projects lasted years, while others lasted only months. Steve still considers this ne of the most challenging, and rewarding, areas of landscape architecture because of its inherent complexity.
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Streetscapes / Parks / Trails / Open Space
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Commercial / Retail / Municipal
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