Professional Members – Consulting


NCDDA invites you to strongly consider the qualifications of our corporate and professional members before beginning a downtown project in your community.  Our members support your NCDDA as well as making downtowns better across our state.

Arnett-Muldrow & Associates
Contact: Tripp Muldrow • 864.233.0950
PO Box 4151, Greenville, SC 29608
tripp@arnettmuldrow.comwww.arnettmuldrow.com
Benchmark, CMR, Inc. 
Contact: Jason Epley, AICP • 704.933.5990
118 South Main Street, Kannapolis, NC 28081
jepley@benchmarkplanning.comwww.benchmarkplanning.com
Benchmark CMR, Inc. is a private consulting firm which provides local government services in the areas of land use planning, ordinance preparation, CDBG administration, GIS mapping, code enforcement and flexible professional staffing arrangements for municipal and county governments. Our recently expanded services now include staff with expertise in downtown development, historic preservation and urban design, including photo simulation and 3D visualization techniques. Our team includes individuals that have experience on the front lines of local government who work closely with our local government clients to customize solutions for their unique needs. Our focus on the quality of our engagement with our clients ensures the effectiveness of our services and successful implementation of their plans and projects.
Categories: Photo Simulation; Master Planning; Market Analysis; Historic District Guidelines and Historic Preservation; Development Ordinances; Comprehensive Planning; Urban Design
Centralina Council of Governments
Contact: CED Department • 704.688.6502
PO Box 35008, Charlotte, NC 28262
www.4communitydevelopment.org
David E. Gall, AIA
Contact: David E. Gall, Architect, PA • 336.773.1213
938 West Fifth Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101
degarc@bellsouth.net
Glazer Architecture
Contact: Patti Glazer, AIA • 828.254.5853
78 ½ Patton Ave., Asheville, NC 28801
pg@glazerarchitecture.com  •   www.glazerarchitecture.com
HadenStanziale, PA
Contact: Karen Weston-Chen • 704.373.0534
421 Penman Street, Suite 300, Charlotte, NC 28203
kwestonchien@hadenstanziale.comwww.HadenStanziale.com
At HadenStanziale we work in downtowns across the Southeast, from large cities to small towns designing creative, realistic solutions for their challenges. We can assist your community with:
Downtown Master Plans
Streetscape Plans
Neighborhood Master Plans
Corridor Studies
Greenway Planning and Construction Documents
We will bring to your community an urban design practice that is based on an interactive public participation process, building on the existing assets of a community, and developing creative and enduring solutions. We serve the entire state through our offices in Charlotte, Durham and Wilmington.
Hedgehog Holdings LLC
Contact: Frank Gailor • 919.755.2250
PO Box 12929, Raleigh, NC 27605
fgailor@hedgehogholdings.comwww.hedgehogholdings.com
InSight Architects
Contact: John A. Shurley • 704.344.0445
1307 West Morehead St., Suite 101 Charlotte, NC 28208
jshurley@insightarch.comwww.insightarch.com
Insight Architects specializes in projects of all types relating to urban settings and adaptive reuse projects. We have helped transform a shark pool and an historic flower shop into restaurants, a parking deck into a grocery store and a manufacturing plant into a high school, as examples to show our diversity. Insight Architects believes it is important to not only maintain historic and cultural heritage of a building and a downtown, but to enhance the heritage and bring it to the forefront. Insight Architects also has been working with communities on downtown district planning and design projects.Our area of expertise is Architecture, Feasibility studies and Planning.
JDEwards, Transportation Consultants
Contact: John D. Edwards • 404.264.0789
3912 Sheldon Drive, Atlanta, GA 30342
Lappas & Havener, PA
Contact: Lauren Smith • 919.419.1199
215 Morris St., Durham, NC 27701
lsmith@lhpa-nc.comwww.lhpa-nc.com
McBrideHess Design Group
Contact: Timothy Hess • 919.954.8200
1073 Bullard Ct., Raleigh, NC 27615
tshess@mcbridehess.comwww.mcbridehess.com
Founded in 1990, McBride Hess Design Group is a boutique land planning firm specializing in urban planning, campus planning and landscape architecture.  MHDG has designed over twenty residential planned and mixed use communities and has a vast experience with over sixty industrial, office, and institutional projects.  Its work includes numerous public projects including seventeen universities and colleges and five small downtown revitalization streetscape projects.  The firm focuses on providing direct principal to client interaction throughout the design and construction process.  The firm has alliances with specialist in market analysis, strategic planning, branding, public/private partnering, marketing, sales, and development.
McClure Nicholson Montgomery Architects
Contact: Charles McClure, AIA • 704.332.6763
2108 South Blvd., Suite 110, Charlotte, NC 28203
cmcclure@mnmarchitects.comwww.mnmarchitects.com
Norcom Development Inc.
Contact: Thomas Norman • 704.332.4146
PO Box 32068, Charlotte, NC 32068
norcom@norcomproperties.com
O’Brien Architecture PLLC
Contact: Michael O’Brien, AIA • 704.333.5336
1125 East Morehead St. Suite 101, Charlotte, NC 28204
OBrienAIA@aol.comwww.obrienaia.com
O’Brien Architecture provides neighborhood and downtown development concepts, plans and strategies.  Two things make us special: 1) our emphasis on meaningful participation from stakeholder groups, and 2) our focus on short-term, market-based strategies to accomplish long-range visions.  Our work has been recognized with prestigious awards from the International Downtown Association, the National League of Cities, the NC Main Street Center and state and local chapters of various professional organizations.  We also have experience as developers of both new infill construction and the reuse of existing, often historic, structures, so we understand the realities of the marketplace and the pro-forma.
Area of Expertise: Master Plans and Development Strategies
Progressive Contracting Company, LLC
Contact: Joni Martin • 919.718.5454
145 Charlotte Ave, #201, Sanford, NC 27330
jmartin@progressivecci.com
Rivers & Associates, Inc.
Contact: Myriah Shewchuk
PO Box 929, Greenville, NC 27858
mshewchuk@riversandassociates.comwww.riversandassociates.com
Rodney Swink, FASLA
919.389.2289
25 Babock Ct., Raleigh, NC 27609
Rodney.swink@att.net
Rodney Swink consults with local governments, non-profits, and firms interested in community development and downtown revitalization.  His expertise includes:

  • The Main Street Program™ as a strategic process for downtown development
  • Analysis and assessment – understanding a community’s unique circumstances and identifying strategies for moving towards a desired future
  • Community visioning and strategic planning – helping set a clear, consensus-based direction for community efforts
  • Community facilitation – leading groups through a process of problem solving
  • Revitalization incentives – knowing federal, state and local incentives for downtown development and how to apply them for the best results
Services Group Inc.
Nicholas A. Bendistis ● 800-408-5222 Ext. 103
PO Box 70  Malvern, PA 19355-0070
nbendistis@servicegroupinc.com  ●  www.servicegroupinc.com
Service Group is a contractor exclusively serving the improvement district industry by providing contracted services. Those services include Environmental Maintenance (Clean Team Ambassadors), Supplemental Safety (Safety Ambassadors) and Hospitality Services (Hospitality Ambassadors).
Stout Studio Architecture
Contact: Gray Stout, AIA • 704.603.8117
5 Acron Lane, Salisbury, NC 28144
gray@stoutstudio.comwww.stoutstudio2.com
The Lawrence Group
Contact: Craig Lewis • 704.895.8470
PO Box 1836, Davidson, NC 28036
craig.lewis@thelawrencegroup.comwww.thelawrencegroup.com

 

Lawrence Group is an urban planning, building design, development and project delivery firm with offices in the Carolinas, Austin, New York, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. The firm’s expertise includes architecture, interior design, town planning, urban design, landscape architecture, real estate development, graphic design, and construction management.Under the leadership of Craig Lewis, AICP, CNU-A, LEED AP, Dave Malushizky, AIA, LEED AP and Rob Richardson, AIA, the talented team of town planners and architects of the Carolinas office provides our clients with expertise in creating resilient downtowns and urban neighborhoods. We are dedicated to the needs of public, private and non-profit clients that seek to strengthen their communities through sustainable planning. Our broad range of experience includes downtown master planning, historic renovation/preservation, remodeling and adaptive reuse, urban single-family, multi-family, mixed-use, form-based codes, streetscape and urban design, recreation and civic facilities.
Urban Resource Group 
A Division of Kimley-horn and Associates, Inc.
Contact: Patrick B. Hart, RLA, LEED AP • 919.653.2910
333 Fayetteville St, Suite 600, Raleigh, NC 27601
Pat.hart@kimley-horn.comwww.kimley-horn.com
Responding to the changing needs of downtown areas is a specialty of Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. and its Urban Resource Group division. Our proven success in streetscape master planning, design, and construction observation results from a finely tuned balance of landscape architecture, roadway design, traffic engineering, civil engineering, and stakeholder engagement. Our planners and landscape architects emphasize the development of a pleasing visual environment, distinctive image, and strong sense of place. Our award-winning, proven approach can help you make the ideal real.  NC offices: Cary, Charlotte, Durham, and Raleigh.
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLL
Contact: Nellie K. Shipley, FASLA • 919.755.2107
PO Box 831, Raleigh, NC 27602
nshipley@wcsr.comwww.wcsr.com