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  • Civita Park
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Civita Park

    Client: Sudberry Properties
    Location: San Diego, CA

    What was once a retired sand and gravel quarry is now Civita, a new 230-acre transit-oriented, master-planned community just 3 miles from San Diego’s downtown. The development that has emerged from the mining aftermath has a gardenesque, park-like character. It has been designed as a sustainable...
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  • SDSU Mission Valley River Park + Site Improvements
    Mission Valley, CA View Project

    SDSU Mission Valley River Park + Site Improvements

    Client: Clark Construction | Project Design Consultants
    Location: Mission Valley, CA

    As subconsultants to Clark Construction and Project Design Consultants, Schmidt Design Group is providing landscape architecture design services for improvements to the SDSU Mission Valley site. The design of the 172-acre site transforms the largest expanse of parking lot west of the Mississippi...
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  • Tecolote Shores North Playground
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Tecolote Shores North Playground

    Client: City of San Diego
    Location: San Diego, CA

    Tecolote Shores Park North Playground transforms the dilapidated playground in San Diego’s Mission Bay Park into a vibrant play destination replete with an array of play opportunities for children and fitness accommodations for adults, crafted with accessibility in mind. The playground draws...
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  • Tecolote Shores South Playground
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    Tecolote Shores South Playground

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    Designed to be one of the most accessible playgrounds in the City of San Diego, the design of the Tecolote Shores South Playground utilizes universal design elements to craft a space that takes into consideration a wide array of physical, social, and emotional needs. It offers accommodations...
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  • Nipaquay Elementary School
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Nipaquay Elementary School

    Client: San Diego Unified School District
    Location: San Diego, CA

    The new elementary school for the Civita community, called Nipaquay, an indigenous word meaning “Our Other Home,” is based on flexibility and connectivity. Entering at the welcome center, the design extends directly to a new ‘maker space’ and library and media center, where new curriculum...
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  • 3Roots Sports Park
    Mira Mesa, CA View Project

    3Roots Sports Park

    Client: Mira Mesa Advisory Group
    Location: Mira Mesa, CA

    Once a sand and gravel quarry, 3Roots Community Park creates a new destination for recreation and play in the community of Mira Mesa. The park design draws inspiration from the site history reflected in the geometry of the walkways, the subtle mounding implemented throughout the park, and the...
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  • Civita Creekside Park
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Civita Creekside Park

    Client: Sudberry Properties
    Location: San Diego, CA

    From a barren brownfield quarry Civita continues to grow and emerge as a community with a genuine green heart. Creekside Park is a new important addition to the treasured parks of Civita. The 1.3-acre linear park contains a large community-wide water quality treatment basin taking up approximately...
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  • Metro Park
    Chula Vista, CA View Project

    Metro Park

    Client: Millenia
    Location: Chula Vista, CA

    The recently opened Metro Park provides an active hub for the community of Millenia and residents of Chula Vista. Themed “Performance”, the park creates a forum for civic gathering, concerts, movies, and festivals within the heart of the community. The park’s perimeter includes a woonerf,...
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  • Maruta Gardner Playground at Bonita Cove Park
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Maruta Gardner Playground at Bonita Cove Park

    Client: City of San Diego
    Location: San Diego, CA

    Maruta Gardner Playground is a site dedicated to its community, representing fun and recreation alongside respect and remembrance. The playground’s namesake is Maruta Gardner, a longtime Mission Bay community leader who was killed tragically by an impaired driver. As Gardner, along with the...
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  • E Street Greenway Master Plan
    San Diego, CA View Project

    E Street Greenway Master Plan

    Client: City of San Diego
    Location: San Diego, CA

    The master planned E Street Greenway is located between Horton Plaza and the Interstate 5 Freeway, starting on 4th Avenue and ending on 16th Street. Stretching 16 city blocks, the E Street Greenway traverses two of San Diego’s most cherished historic districts, Gaslamp Quarter and East Village....
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  • San Diego County Youth Transition Campus
    San Diego, CA View Project

    San Diego County Youth Transition Campus

    Client: County of San Diego / DLR Group / Balfour Beatty Construction
    Location: San Diego, CA

    Schmidt Design Group collaborated with DLR Group and Balfour Beatty Construction to transform an outdated and inhospitable penal environment into a groundbreaking juvenile justice campus grounded in rehabilitation. The new, state-of-the-art, LEED-Gold facility serves as a one-of-a-kind national...
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  • Pacific Sky Elementary School
    Del Mar, CA View Project

    Pacific Sky Elementary School

    Client: Del Mar Union School District
    Location: Del Mar, CA

    As subconsultant to OBR Architecture, Schmidt Design Group provided design, community engagement, construction documentation, and construction administration services for the development of the new ground-up 65,000-square-foot K-6 elementary school. The project is located on a 10-acre site, housing...
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  • Riverwalk San Diego
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Riverwalk San Diego

    Client: Hines
    Location: San Diego, CA

    Riverwalk San Diego is a 200-acre master-planned community located in the heart of the Mission Valley. With both the San Diego River and the MTS trolley traversing through the center of the project, this transit-oriented development will replace an existing 27-hole golf course with approximately...
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  • King-Chavez Primary Arts and Athletics Academy
    San Diego, CA View Project

    King-Chavez Primary Arts and Athletics Academy

    Client: San Diego Unified School District
    Location: San Diego, CA

    The modernization of King-Chaves Primary Arts and Athletic Academy transform a dated elementary campus into a vibrant outdoor experience where students are encouraged to explore, learn, and play.  Located in the culturally diverse community of Stockton in San Diego, CA, the project involved a...
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  • BioLegend Headquarters
    San Diego, CA View Project

    BioLegend Headquarters

    Client: Delawie Architects | BioLegend
    Location: San Diego, CA

    As a subconsultant to Delawie Architects, Schmidt Design Group developed the master plan for Biolegend’s eight-acre headquarters. The design features an amenity rich campus setting and provides a diverse range of passive and active spaces and multiple scales. The design seeks to create...
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  • Children’s Park
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Children’s Park

    Client: Civic San Diego (formerly CCDC)
    Location: San Diego, CA

    The re-visioning of this existing two-acre park near the Children’s Museum and San Diego Convention Center in downtown San Diego is intended to provide a more usable open-space area for the public.  The iconic urban park, originally designed by renowned landscape architect Peter Walker, features...
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  • Chollas Lake Park Playground Renovation
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Chollas Lake Park Playground Renovation

    Client: City of San Diego
    Location: San Diego, CA

    The Chollas Lake Park Playground improvements provided much-needed updates to an underserved community in San Diego. With an average household income nearly 15% lower than the San Diego County average, and more than two-thousand of the neighborhood’s residents living with a disability, the...
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  • Adams Elementary School/Global Vision Academy
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Adams Elementary School/Global Vision Academy

    Client: San Diego Unified School District
    Location: San Diego, CA

    The improvements to the John Adams Elementary strengthen the social, environmental, and aesthetic qualities of the campus and its connection to the Normal Heights community. The vibrant colors reflect the full spectrum of educational, social, and civic ambitions ingrained in the school’s mission....
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  • East County Accessor/Recorder/County Clerk Facility
    Santee, CA View Project

    East County Accessor/Recorder/County Clerk Facility

    Client: San Diego County
    Location: Santee, CA

    Schmidt Design Group is collaborating with the Miller Hull Partnership and CW Driver on San Diego County’s new state-of-the-art ARCC Branch Building. The site design honors the San Diego landscape. Plant selection was heavily influenced by species’ native to the region and drought-tolerance...
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  • The Silver Strand, “Nature’s Bridge to Discovery”
    Coronado, CA View Project

    The Silver Strand, “Nature’s Bridge to Discovery”

    Client: City of Coronado
    Location: Coronado, CA

    The Silver Strand is a narrow, eight-mile long environmentally significant stretch of land where the Scenic State Highway SR 75 and bike path links the cities of Coronado and Imperial Beach just southwest of downtown San Diego. Recognizing that the potential for the Silver Strand was under-served,...
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  • Stone Brewing Co. World Bistro & Gardens – Escondido
    Escondido, CA View Project

    Stone Brewing Co. World Bistro & Gardens – Escondido

    Client: Stone Brewing Co.
    Location: Escondido, CA

    Schmidt Design Group, Inc. collaborated with owner Greg Koch and Architect Andy Kjellberg to design the hardscape, landscape and irrigation for outdoor seating and beer gardens at this popular restaurant and craft brewery in North San Diego County. Most of the one-acre of gardens are within a...
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  • Vive I & II Apartments at Ariva
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Vive I & II Apartments at Ariva

    Client: Sunroad Enterprises
    Location: San Diego, CA

    Vive on the Park includes two five-story luxury apartment buildings housing 550 units over two levels of parking. The landscape design elevates the complex through thoughtful outdoor spaces designed to encourage social interaction, dining, entertaining, contemplation, exercise, and play. The two...
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  • County Administration Waterfront Park
    San Diego, CA View Project

    County Administration Waterfront Park

    Client: McCarthy Building Companies
    Location: San Diego, CA

    The County Administration Center Waterfront Park will open up views and access to the San Diego Bay by converting the large eight-acre parking lots north and south of the Administration Center into a large community and regional open-space amenity. The park will include large civic greens, a...
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  • North Harbor Drive Landscape Improvements
    San Diego, CA View Project

    North Harbor Drive Landscape Improvements

    Client: San Diego Port District
    Location: San Diego, CA

    Schmidt Design Group collaborated with the Port of San Diego to establish a new landscape vision for North Harbor Drive. Nearly 90,000 motorists experience North Harbor Drive on a daily basis making it one of the most visually prominent experiences in San Diego County. The proposed landscape...
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  • Del Sur Neighborhood Park
    Del Sur, San Diego, California View Project

    Del Sur Neighborhood Park

    Client: City of San Diego
    Location: Del Sur, San Diego, California

    Del Sur Neighborhood Park is a 5-acre park located in the Del Sur community of San Diego, California. Working in collaboration with the community, Lennar Homes, and City of San Diego; Schmidt Design Group fulfilled this neighborhood’s unique needs by providing amenities not found the surrounding...
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  • El Cajon Transit District Specific Plan
    El Cajon, CA View Project

    El Cajon Transit District Specific Plan

    Client: City of El Cajon
    Location: El Cajon, CA

    Schmidt Design Group, Inc., collaborated with M.W. Steele Architects to create a framework for future development of a 259-acre district within the City of El Cajon. The public realm strategy sought to employ significant “road diets” throughout the District to increase multi-modal connectivity...
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  • Arts District at Liberty Station
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Arts District at Liberty Station

    Client: obr Architecture
    Location: San Diego, CA

    The improvements at the Arts District create a unique and vibrant town square experience focused on maintaining the historic integrity of the former Naval Training Center while providing an elegant outdoor experience. Program amenities of the Arts District include an”arrival plaza” and...
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  • Linda Vista Skate Park
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Linda Vista Skate Park

    Client: City of San Diego
    Location: San Diego, CA

    Schmidt Design Group, in conjunction with SITE Design Group, designed a custom, innovative, and multi-generational concrete skate park within the existing Linda Vista Community Park. The skate park is nestled in a valley between the existing sloping hillsides, creating prominent viewing areas...
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