GMP Inc. is providing land planning and landscape architectural services for Mountain Bridge, a 700 acre master-planned community in Mesa, Arizona. The community is planned for 1,200 homes in several neighborhoods, 2 neighborhood parks, a recreation facility with a community pool, tennis facility and lake, a 10 acre commercial site and community entry features at a grand scale. Fundamental to the planning of Mountain Bridge is the preservation of 170…
Santaluz, a part of Black Mountain Ranch, and located 30 miles north of downtown San Diego, originally consisted of 4,000 acres of overgrazed non-native grassland. The goal of the project was to create a seamless, integrated landscape design that harkened of a time when the foothills of the region rolled with native shrubs, grasslands, rich riparian channels, and majestic plantings of Coast Live Oak, California Sycamore and Willow trees. GMP…
GMP provided landscape master planning services for Bressi Ranch, a 585-acre master planned community located in Carlsbad, CA. The community was designed with the theme of a historic garden district incorporating elements specific to the history and environment of Carlsbad and the Southern California Region to create a sense of permanence and historical character. Using the land plan developed by Peter Calthorpe following Ahwanee principles to create pedestrian interconnectedness, GMP…
La Costa Ridge is a Tuscan hillside village inspired master planned community in Carlsbad, CA consisting of 262 single family homes on 465 acre sitting atop one the highest points in Carlsbad. GMP developed the design of the projects gated entry to evoke the feeling of entering a Tuscan hillside villa special attention was paid to all hardscape and landscape material selection as well as the geometry of the entry…
GMP provided landscape architectural designs for Agave and Saguaro, a 359-unit attached and detached multi-family town home community located within the master planned community of Windingwalk in Chula Vista, California. Agave, a 2007 SAM Awards winner for Best Landscape Architecture for an Attached Housing, features structures and design elements chosen to strongly reinforce and celebrate the architectural principals of San Diego’s own Irving Gill. The community features exact replicas of…