The folks at KTU+A Planning and Landscape Architecture use their hands and minds to create award-winning, creative and sustainable projects locally and beyond. But their hearts belong to Uptown.

Founded 47 years ago this July by landscape architects Frank Kawasaki and Michael Theilacker as Kawasaki Theilacker & Associates (KT&A) and joined shortly thereafter by Don Ueno, the firm’s first official office was at Fourth and Robinson avenues in Hillcrest. Outgrowing this office, the firm moved in 1988 to Governor Business Park and changed its name to KTU+A.

These days, their office is located at 3916 Normal St. in a building that was once the Farmer Brothers’ Coffee warehouse and distribution center (1944), and more recently, home of the San Diego LGBT Community Center.

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