When Glen Schmidt became a Clairemont resident almost 40 years ago - and a Bay Park fixture for almost 32 of those years - he brought his commitment to community with him. While the award-winning [...]
San Diego has found a faster and cheaper way to open parks in neighborhoods that lack them, including many older communities and lower-income areas south of Interstate 8. Through a partnership with the San Diego [...]
Plans are forging ahead for a new pocket park on Cañon Street in Point Loma's Roseville neighborhood, as the city's selected an architect/consultant for the project, meaning public workshops on it can begin this spring. [...]
Liberty Station is getting a trio of new hotels. The three new hotels include the 181-room Hampton Inn & Suites, the 247-room Embassy Suites and the 222-room Towne Place Suites. They are going in on [...]
Featured in the SD Metro February 16, 2017 KTUA, a San Diego-based planning and landscape architecture firm, has transformed the parking lot of the formerly shuttered Cabrillo Hospital into a gathering and green space for [...]
When Glen Schmidt founded his landscape architecture and planning firm, Schmidt Design Group, in 1983, he brought a new ethic to the profession that was not widely shared at that time. “Early in my professional [...]
The American Society of Landscape Architects, San Diego Chapter (ASLA SD), announces the recipient of the 2016 $5000 Community Grant: the Cabrillo National Monument Visitors Center in collaboration with the San Diego Native Plant Society. [...]
Beginning in the early 1950s, the commercial landscape architecture firm of Wimmer Yamada was regarded as the landscape architecture firm of choice for San Diego’s most progressive architects. Founded by Harriet Barnhart Wimmer in 1954, [...]
This article was originally published in SD Metro and North Park News, August 2003. By Delle Willett. When I was growing up in the 60s it seemed like my choice of professions was limited to [...]
East Hotels at Liberty Station is a trio of new hotels going in along Harbor Drive on the former site of Navy recruit barracks, where most recently Wally Park operated. The three hotels will share [...]