For immediate release: April 20, 2005

Design Workshop expands its Phoenix office
and moves to larger quarters

Following growth in both commissions and staff in recent months, the Phoenix office of Design Workshop, an international award-winning landscape architecture, planning and urban design firm, has moved into new and larger quarters at the Hayden Ferry Lakeside office complex on Rio Salado Parkway in Tempe. The firm’s Phoenix office, which opened in August 1986 with two staff members, has grown to a current staff of 13. The move from their previous South Mill Avenue location and will give the office more space for client meetings, design charrettes and staff.

“Design Workshop is involved in urban design planning and implementation in cities throughout the West,” says Kirby Hoyt, one of two principals in the Phoenix office. “We look forward to further expanding our client base here in Arizona.”

The Phoenix office has developed a talented urban design, community planning and resort design team, which includes the recent addition of principal John Suarez from the firm’s Denver office. Tom Snyder leads the office as the operations manager; Snyder coordinated the design and construction of the new office space, as well as the move itself. The Phoenix office is currently hiring designers.

Among its current projects are the Tempe Center for the Arts, the dynamic mixed-use community of Main Street Commons in Gilbert, Arizona, and the master plan for the new community of Valle San Pedro in the state of Baja California, the fastest-growing region in Mexico. The firm also created a new master plan for the Festival Ranch near Buckeye, recently began design on the Biltmore Fashion Park in Phoenix and created the master plan for the Kierland Commons mixed-use retail district in Scottsdale.