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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Charles Lewis III Memorial Park
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Charles Lewis III Memorial Park

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

    Charles Lewis III Memorial Park is a 5.8-acre neighborhood park in City Heights. This area of City Heights was in great need of open space and the park offers a unique opportunity for those living in this urban community to connect with the adjacent natural environment. The park is the result of a...
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  • Orange Park
    Chula Vista, CA View Project

    Orange Park

    Client: City of Chula Vista
    Location: Chula Vista, CA

    Orange Park is a four-acre community-oriented active park next to the South Chula Vista Library. The park consists of a regulation size soccer field, playground, basketball court, comfort station, shaded picnic areas, and a dog park. A walking path around the perimeter of the multipurpose field...
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  • Briercrest Park
    La Mesa, CA View Project

    Briercrest Park

    Client: City of La Mesa
    Location: La Mesa, CA

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  • Camino Ruiz Neighborhood Park
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Camino Ruiz Neighborhood Park

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

    This 12-acre neighborhood park includes youth baseball fields, a central plaza, picnic areas, children’s play areas, environmental education overlooks, parking, and a restroom/concession building.  The park is surrounded by sensitive open space with a number of unique educational overlooks....
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  • Lake Skinner Recreation Area
    Riverside, CA View Project

    Lake Skinner Recreation Area

    Client: Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District
    Location: Riverside, CA

    Schmidt Design Group, Inc. provided master plan design for improvements to Lake Skinner Recreation Area and Campground for the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District.  Upgrades to the 150-acre open space facility included new concert grounds, amphitheater and stage area, new...
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  • Park de la Cruz Neighborhood Park Improvements
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Park de la Cruz Neighborhood Park Improvements

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

    Schmidt Design Group, in conjunction with Stantec, worked on the expansion of Park de La Cruz Neighborhood Park in the City Heights area of San Diego. The expansion includes ADA upgrades, a .64-acre park expansion connecting the park to Cherokee Point Park, new shade structures and picnic tables,...
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  • Joseph “Joey” Lopes Park
    West Sacramento, CA View Project

    Joseph “Joey” Lopes Park

    Client: City of West Sacramento
    Location: West Sacramento, CA

    The City of West Sacramento transformed a stormwater and sanitary sewer easement site into the Joseph “Joey” Lopes Park, a four-acre public park. The park was funded by a state grant and is activated with programming to fill the needs of the surrounding community. Schmidt Design Group...
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  • Pacific Highlands Ranch Community Park
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Pacific Highlands Ranch Community Park

    Client: Pardee Homes
    Location: San Diego, CA

    The 13-acre Pacific Highlands Ranch Community Park is designed to facilitate community gathering, encourage social interaction, and offer a diverse and unique blend of recreational amenities for the local community. The central promenade functions as an extension of the village center and draws...
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  • Ocean Air Community Park
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Ocean Air Community Park

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

    Ocean Air Community Park includes joint-use multi-purpose ballfields shared with the adjacent Ocean Air Elementary School and a 16,500-square-foot community center certified LEED Silver.  The 18-acre park features a large children’s play area, flexible passive open space, perimeter walking...
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  • Cottonwood Creek Park
    Encinitas, CA View Project

    Cottonwood Creek Park

    Client: City of Encinitas
    Location: Encinitas, CA

    Cottonwood Creek Park is an eight acre neighborhood park located in Encinitas, California.

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  • Public Facilitation Expertise
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    Public Facilitation Expertise

    Client: Various
    Location: Various

    Under the leadership of Glen Schmidt, FASLA, who brings 40 years of experience in leading and facilitating public meetings, we are proud to report an unblemished record of accomplishing community consensus on even the most difficult and controversial projects. On numerous occasions, he has...
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  • Stylus Park
    Chula Vista, CA View Project

    Stylus Park

    Client: Corky McMillin Companies
    Location: Chula Vista, CA

    Millenia is a multi-billion-dollar, mixed-use urban development in the Otay Ranch area of Chula Vista, California. Stylus Park is the first of six uniquely themed neighborhood parks planned for this innovative sustainable development. “Interaction” is the theme of this park and the...
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  • Solana Ranch Neighborhood Park
    San Diego, CA View Project

    Solana Ranch Neighborhood Park

    Client: Pardee Homes
    Location: San Diego, CA

    The design for Solana Ranch Park creates a playful destination for the residents of Pacific Highlands Ranch.  The park embraces the walkable nature of the community, responds to the adjacent natural environment, and celebrates the region’s history.  A tree-lined promenade acts as the central...
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  • Connors Park
    San Marcos, CA View Project

    Connors Park

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

    As subconsultants to RBF Consulting, Schmidt Design Group, Inc., provided design services for Connors Park (also known as San Marcos Elementary School Park) in San Marcos, California.  The 4.65-acre park includes covered and uncovered picnic areas, a shaded play structure, a restroom, concession...
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  • Mast Park Master Plan
    Santee, CA View Project

    Mast Park Master Plan

    Client: City of Santee
    Location: Santee, CA

    Schmidt Design Group initially provided the City of Santee with a series of proposed design alternatives that would transform Mast Park into a more engaging place that fosters a healthy lifestyle. After two public meetings, a preferred alternative was chosen. Some of the main desires of residents...
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  • Rancho Jurupa Park
    Riverside, CA View Project

    Rancho Jurupa Park

    Client: Riverside County Regional Parks and Open-Space District
    Location: Riverside, CA

    Rancho Jurupa Park is a 200-acre recreation and fishing area near the Santa Ana River.  This popular award-winning regional park boasts a natural semi-rural setting of shady cottonwood trees, meadows, and two three-acre lakes.  Schmidt Design Group, Inc. designed the pre-fabricated cabins that...
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