Current Project Team
Regenesis is a world leader in the field of regenerative development—an approach to land use, community development, and the built environment that has defined the leading edge of sustainability practice for more than two decades. Aiming beyond the goal to do less harm, these pioneers are committed to proving that human activity can be a source of health and regeneration, rather than destruction and degradation.
7group is a collaboration between close friends which happens to be a business. We share a vocation – using our experience with green building as an instrument for developing the capacity of people to affect how humans regenerate life through building. We seek to use each unique project’s design and construction process as an instrument for affecting the larger living systems in which that project is nested.
Sherwood Design Engineers is a civil engineering firm that applies innovation and elegant design to the creation and implementation of sustainable infrastructure. Our engineering process emerges from the integration of imagination, experience and collaboration to create beautiful infrastructure designed to enhance relationships between communities and the natural environment.
Introba is one of the world’s largest building engineering and consulting firms with more than 1,000 employees in offices across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Serbia, and Australia. Committed to reshaping the world, our problem solvers combine cutting-edge digital solutions with emerging innovations and industry-leading sustainability strategies to transform the built environment.
Dover, Kohl & Partners was founded in 1987. Our expertise lies in balancing the visionary ‘civic art’ of planning with the practical consensus-building needed to make projects succeed. Dover, Kohl & Partners is best known for public design charrettes, detailed master plans, and illustrative codes that emphasize complete neighborhoods as the basis for sound communities.
Our purpose is to inspire people to be outside and engage in the community around them. As planners and landscape architects, we embrace every opportunity to advance this mission by creating memorable and engaging outdoor experiences. Founded in 1982, RVi has grown into a national firm with a broad range of project experience that inspires our team to think creatively.
Founded in 2016, Ground Plan Studio is a recognized leader in the evolving fields of carbon farming and regenerative business. We have decades of global experience in ecological planning and design, and have worked with the best minds on the planet to solve real world business problems with strategies derived from the enduring and robust models seen in nature.
We focus on Debt/Equity and Joint Venture Partnerships, working with BIPOC developers on projects in underserved neighborhoods that, when completed, will create a significant upside to the communities in which they’re located. All debt is secured via Greenbriar Capital, LLC.
RCCSD is a multi-generational and multi-racial organization committed to utilizing public-private partnerships and community empowerment strategies to promote sustainable development and a regenerative economy in Robeson County and Southeastern NC. Its programs focus on environmental protection, renewable energy development, disaster response, and creative and sustainable solutions to degenerating rural economies through the empowerment and leadership of impacted community members and leaders.
Relevant work by project team members
I'On, South Carolina
Farm at Crossroads Commons, Indiana
Farm at Crossroads Commons, Indiana
Dover, Kohl & Partners
The Plan for I’On includes a continuous public waterfront and marshfront, a wide range of dwelling sizes and types, "live/work" units, and a corner store. In response to the spectacular setting, homes and civic buildings have been built in the classic architectural style of the Lowcountry and are located along canals and footbridges, tidal creeks, lakes, and expanses of saltwater marsh.
Farm at Crossroads Commons, Indiana
Farm at Crossroads Commons, Indiana
Farm at Crossroads Commons, Indiana
Sherwood
The site plan creates an interface between the architecture that equally supports the people and the agriculture of the region that has historically provided for them.
Glenwood Park, Georgia
Farm at Crossroads Commons, Indiana
Glenwood Park, Georgia
Dover, Kohl & Partners
This 28-acre former industrial site was transformed into a complete neighborhood featuring a traditional fine-grained mix of housing types, retail stores, office space, civic buildings, and recreational facilities. The project emphasizes the public realm, walkability, mixed uses, community, diversity, and quality over quantity.
Babcock Ranch, Florida
Wheeler District, Oklahoma
Glenwood Park, Georgia
RVI
The heart of Babcock Ranch is sustainability. Babcock Ranch is America’s first solar-powered community. All homes are built to Florida Green Building Requirements, and all schools are built with LEED certifications.
Philo Ridge Farm, Vermont
Wheeler District, Oklahoma
Wheeler District, Oklahoma
Ground Plan Studio
Philo Ridge Farm is a premier destination demonstrating the best of regenerative agriculture techniques and products for sale at the farm market. Seasonal celebrations and events gather friends and neighbors to enjoy the bounty of the land.
Wheeler District, Oklahoma
Wheeler District, Oklahoma
Wheeler District, Oklahoma
Dover, Kohl & Partners
The Wheeler District is a new community in the center of Oklahoma City, located along the southern bank of the Oklahoma River less than two miles from downtown. This new urban village aims to grow over time to become the most walkable, bikable neighborhood in the region, with a focus on family and a range of housing options and building types not available elsewhere in the city.
ReFarm Cafe
Lions Gate Water Treatment, British Columbia
South Main, Buena Vista, Colorado
7group
ReFarm Cafe offers a unique dining experience and is designed to optimize a healthy community of individuals who value our natural environment, sustainability, have a concern for the future, and a commitment to healthy food, grown with responsible intentions.
South Main, Buena Vista, Colorado
Lions Gate Water Treatment, British Columbia
South Main, Buena Vista, Colorado
Dover, Kohl & Partners
The South Main development extends downtown Buena Vista to the Arkansas River. Neighborhood streets are oriented to create views to the mountains as well as to the riverfront. The South Main Square, which abuts a new riverfront park, is surrounded by mixed-use buildings, and provides a central gathering space for residents and visitors.
Lions Gate Water Treatment, British Columbia
Lions Gate Water Treatment, British Columbia
Lions Gate Water Treatment, British Columbia
7group & Regenesis
The Lions Gate wastewater treament plant is renowned as a community amenity bringing value to the neighborhoods it serves, and it became known as a “fresh water and energy generation plant, producing nutrients for the surrounding gardens that are so beautiful that people want to go there to get married”, as opposed to a hidden or undesirable sewage treatment facility.
Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, Georgia
Lions Gate Water Treatment, British Columbia
Sherwood
Atlanta Habitat for Humanity’s Browns Mill Village community provides safe, affordable homeownership opportunities for families in South Atlanta.
Center for Food & Agriculture, California
Sherwood
As a multi-functional project, the center will be focused around not only the farmer’s market but also providing the community with educational resources including test gardens, a teaching lab and programs for culinary arts.
Willow School, New Jersey
Regenesis
Students and visitors are engaged in “the story” of the school’s environment, and the use of nature-based designs help to demonstrate the connections to the planet. Students don’t just observe, but are experiencing and participating with the whole system.
The Bend, Tennessee
Trent Preserve, North Carolina
Dover, Kohl & Partners
This neighborhood plan imagines a new future for a riverfront industrial site from which Chattanoogans were fenced off for over 100 years. The property will once again become a busy place where a lot of people will be employed, but now it will be a complete neighborhood where people can also live, where creative office workers can come to work, where people can come to be entertained, and where people can enjoy generous public spaces, walkable streets and the waterfront. Its close-in location will allow this to be the region’s “first 21st Century, car-optional neighborhood.”
Trent Preserve, North Carolina
Trent Preserve, North Carolina
Ground Plan Studio
Trent Preserve is a unique and special landscape in eastern North Carolina, with a future use as a children's education center. Demonstrating the importance of "biophilia" in conserved and restored native forest, meadow, wetland and riverbank landscapes, Trent Preserve will also begin development of light impact agroforestry and other forms of perennial agriculture.
Draper Lake, Florida
Sherwood
The design team created buffers necessary to preserve habitat in the Draper Lake, the surrounding wetlands, and the native scrub vegetation.
San Gabriel Park, Texas
Santa Lucia Preserve, California
RVI
Park improvements blend the built environment within the landscape, highlighted by the habitat restoration of the three springs to promote the recolonization of the endangered Georgetown Salamander. After a 30-year absence, the species was recently confirmed at the site.
Ramboland, Pennsylvania
Santa Lucia Preserve, California
Santa Lucia Preserve, California
7group, Sherwood, Introba, Ground Plan Studio
Ramboland will be a living laboratory, demonstrating that our cities can heal our ecosystems while supporting the lives of all citizens, including those with special needs, far better and less expensively than we do today.
Santa Lucia Preserve, California
Santa Lucia Preserve, California
Santa Lucia Preserve, California
Sherwood & Introba
(as Integral Group)
The Santa Lucia Preserve, a 20,000-acre property spanning multiple coastal watersheds, is both a residential community and a functioning nature conservancy, where homeowners act as invested stewards of the land.
Playa Viva, Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Playa Viva, Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Playa Viva, Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Regenesis
By engaging with community groups through educational projects geared towards sustainability, and by primarily hiring local people, Playa Viva has been a positive driver for the community on multiple fronts.