Pland Collaborative

Thank you for you collaboration, support, expertise, and for being a part of our community this year. We’re wishing all of you a happy and safe holiday season!

Along with representatives from Bernalillo County and New Mexico Mainstreet , members of the public, and Santa Claus himself, Bernalillo County Commissioner Steven Michael Quezada and South Valley MainStreet Executive Director Bianca Encinias cut the ribbon at the grand re-opening of Bernalillo County's Dolores Huerta Gateway Park last weekend. The renovations of the park included a new stage and shade structure, trees, seat walls, catenary lighting, and other improvements to this South Valley community park and home of the La Familia Farmer's Market.

Farmington’s Civic Center Plaza has been serving functional gorgeousness since 2017. These recent shots by Matt Oberer prove it. Read more about the project on our site. https://lnkd.in/gqV_nsC9 Greer Stafford Architecture

You may have seen some folks from Pland around Downtown this week, with flashy florescent vests and clipboards. This week we are working on a Downtown Parking Study for Albuquerque's Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency (MRA). We are manually counting on-street parking and flying drones to capture surface parking lots, for the purpose of understanding Downtown's parking supply and demand. Empowering the city with accurate data of Downtown's parking needs can help them create an accessible, dynamic, and thriving Downtown Albuquerque!

We are so proud to announce that Pland Senior Planner Miriam Diddy was awarded with an inaugural Community Impact Award by the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums at their 2024 International Conference!!! Miriam was recognized for her collaborative work with the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design (ISAPD) specifically ISAPD's Indigenous Architecture Days program which Pland partnered with and supported last year!

🦃 ✨ 🥧 Happy elastic waistband gratitude day from all of us at Pland! Our Lubbock office celebrated Thanksgiving early this year with a beautiful potluck. We hope you get to indulge in something equally as sweet.

✈️🌇Take a sight-seeing journey with Mario and Aaron as they travel to Philly to present about green stormwater infrastructure in arid climates at the Greenbuild International Summit!

If you’ve ever met Brian, you know that he’s hilarious, talented, and a great collaborator! But did you know he’s now CLARB - Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards President?! We’re proud of you Brian Verardo Pictured: Brian at the 2024 ASLA + CLARB Licensure Summit, Brian having a mini design charette with our Lubbock team, Brian: Halloween edition

Escape with us on an adventure through the diverse terrains of San Juan County! As part of San Juan County’s Outdoor Recreation Master Plan, our team has biked along the Animas River, gone off-road in Chokecherry Canyon, and camped at Navajo Lake. What’s your favorite recreational spot? Share a snapshot of your favorite outdoor area in San Juan County for a chance to win a gift card! The Photo Contest is extended through 12/20/24. Post your picture on social media with #sjcoutdoors or visit sjc-outdoor.com for more details!

Welcome our first Arizona-based Landscape Architect, Maria Voris, to the Pland Team! Maria is not just a cactus enthusiast, she’s a bona fide cactus rescuer who volunteers with the Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society to save cacti and other native plants. Self-proclaimed “plant nerds,” she and her husband have hundreds of cacti in their yard, including 20 saguaros and over 50 barrels, many from rescue. Her Southwestern oasis wouldn’t be complete without Rio, her native desert tortoise. One of Maria’s favorite projects in her portfolio is a traditional Mexican-American home garden, or barrio garden, designed and constructed in collaboration with the Tucson Botanical Garden. Created to showcase a diverse sample of gardens throughout the nation, her project was selected to be installed as a temporary installation at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington DC and won an Arizona ASLA Honor Award. When Maria isn’t designing award-winning gardens and rescuing prickly plant friends, she is busy doing yoga, cycling, and dancing Flamenco. To learn more about our team, visit our website: https://lnkd.in/ge3jqrnU