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UPEA offers planning and landscape architecture services for local government, corporate, and institutional clients. We are noted for a “climate responsive” approach unique to the Great Lakes Region. This philosophy results in a landscape or facility that is visually appealing as well as functional in all seasons.

We have served clients on an assortment of projects including: community master planning and zoning, site planning for college campuses, shopping centers, institutional facilities, parks, waterfront redevelopment, and historic redevelopment.

Design concepts seek to balance competing values, such as the design of appealing communities versus financial feasibility, the protection of the natural environment versus the need for economic development, and pedestrian friendly designs and facilities versus easy snow management or traffic flows.

• Community Planning & Development
• Comprehensive and Master Plans
• Downtown Revitalization
• Economic Studies
• Urban Design and Site Planning
• Waterfront Development
• Parks and Recreation
• Watershed Studies and Plans 
• Economic Development
• Campus Planning
• Grant Application & Administration
• Zoning, Land Use and Site Plan Review permitting 
• Marinas
• Traffic and Pedestrian Flow Analysis
• Zoning Ordinances
• Brownfield Redevelopment
• Winter Design and Planning