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SDSU Mission Valley Site Improvements
Mission Valley, CA View ProjectSDSU Mission Valley 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 ProjectTecolote 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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3Roots Sports Park
Mira Mesa, CA View Project3Roots 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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Metro Park
Chula Vista, CA View ProjectMetro Park
Client: Millenia
Location: Chula Vista, CA
Metro Park, currently under construction, will provide an active hub for community of Millenia and residents of Chula Vista. Themed “Performance,” the park will create a forum for civic gathering, concerts, movies, and festivals within the heart of the community. The park’s perimeter...
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Maruta Gardner Playground at Bonita Cove Park
San Diego, CA View ProjectMaruta 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, CA View ProjectRiverwalk
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 ProjectChildren’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 ProjectChollas 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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The Silver Strand, “Nature’s Bridge to Discovery”
Coronado, CA View ProjectThe 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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County Administration Waterfront Park
San Diego, CA View ProjectCounty 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 ProjectDel 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 ProjectLinda 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 ProjectCharles 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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Solana Beach Coastal Rail Trail
Solana Beach, CA View ProjectSolana Beach Coastal Rail Trail
Client: City of Solana Beach
Location: Solana Beach, CA
The Solana Beach Coastal Rail Trail is a 1.5-mile linear park running along the length of the City of Solana Beach. Schmidt Design Group, Inc.’s design of the trail was created with the help of significant community feedback and workshops. The Solana Beach Coastal Rail Trail Linear Park is...
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Orange Park
Chula Vista, CA View ProjectOrange 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 ProjectBriercrest Park
Client: City of La Mesa
Location: La Mesa, CA
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Camino Ruiz Neighborhood Park
San Diego, CA View ProjectCamino 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 ProjectLake 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 ProjectPark 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 ProjectJoseph “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 ProjectPacific 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 ProjectOcean 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 ProjectCottonwood 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
Various View ProjectPublic 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 ProjectStylus 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 ProjectSolana 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 ProjectConnors 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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Rancho Jurupa Park
Riverside, CA View ProjectRancho 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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Paradise Creek Educational Park
National City, CA View ProjectParadise Creek Educational Park
Client: City of National City
Location: National City, CA
Paradise Creek is an urban stream in National City that connects San Diego Bay to the watershed of the surrounding city landscape. The Paradise Creek Educational Park restored a 1/2-mile stretch of the creek to its natural state as a wetland and salt marsh. Restoration included removal of...
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West Lewis Mini Park
San Diego, CA View ProjectWest Lewis Mini Park
Client: City of San Diego
Location: San Diego, CA
This “pocket” park was created by the drive of the surrounding community, which saw a lack of open space in their neighborhood and went to the City with a desire for a new park. Schmidt Design Group, Inc. helped realize the neighborhood’s vision. After a series of community workshops, we...
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