We Listen
Residents, council and staff tell us what the park needs to be: for whom, for what, and where.
A great park is not a lawn with a bench. It is the place a kid learns to ride, a family spends a Saturday, and a town gathers on a summer night. We design parks around how people really use them, from the pump track to the splash pad to the grading that keeps it all dry.
We designed this track for the City of Corcoran as part of Gateway Park. In March 2025 it hosted a Pump Track World Championship Qualifier. This is the City's video of that day. Press play and watch it ride.
Video: City of Corcoran, March 2025.
A pump track is a continuous loop of rollers and banked turns. Riders generate speed by pumping their body over the rollers instead of pedaling, so the same track works for bikes, scooters, skateboards and balance bikes, for a four-year-old and a forty-year-old at the same time.
For a city, that is a lot of recreation in a small footprint: low maintenance, open every day, and a reason for kids to be outside and active. Paired with a playground, a splash pad and a place to gather, it turns a park into a destination.
The pump track is the headline, but the park around it is what keeps families coming back: a playground, a splash pad, plazas and an amphitheater lawn. Tap any photo to see it full screen.
For the City of Parlier we designed, bid and managed construction of Fig Tree Park at the northeast corner of Avila Street and Tulare Street: a walking and jogging loop around open lawn, shade structures, picnic tables and play areas, with drought-tolerant planting, river-rock bioswales and solar lighting. It opened in October 2024.
The mature trees on the block stayed. The path loops around them, the lawn opens up in the middle, and the planted beds between are native and low-water, with signs that tell visitors what is growing and how little water it needs.
It is the kind of park a city can keep: durable surfaces, solar-powered lights, and landscaping that does not need a big water bill to look good in August.
The best parks are the ones that are never empty.How we judge our own work
Park design is civil engineering: grading, drainage, utilities, accessible routes, construction documents and inspection. Our engineers are on site while it is built, so the park that opens is the park that was designed.
Every park we design follows the same path, and we walk all of it with the city.
Residents, council and staff tell us what the park needs to be: for whom, for what, and where.
Topographic survey and site investigation, so the design fits the ground, the drainage and the utilities already there.
Concept plans, then full construction documents: layout, grading, drainage, utilities, lighting and accessible routes.
Specifications, cost estimates and bidding support so the city gets a fair price from a qualified contractor.
Construction management and inspection, start to finish, with our engineers on site.
Have an empty lot or a tired park? Tell us what your community wants to do outside.
From playgrounds and pocket parks to sports fields and turf restoration, recent and in progress.
Tell us about the site, the neighborhood and what people wish they had. We will help you picture it, fund it, design it and build it.