Founded in 1990, site design group, ltd. (site) is an award-winning landscape architecture, urban design, and architecture firm based in the South Loop of Chicago. As landscape architects, urban designers, planners, arborists, architects, horticultural experts, and creative thinkers, they have a staff of 27 diverse and innovative professionals. They are enlivened by their surroundings and strive to produce creative spaces that inspire, restore, and bring communities together. site is certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) in Chicago and other statewide agencies.
At site, they successfully facilitate open conversations that engage participants who are often working with diverse agendas. They transform complex design challenges into places that clearly reflect identity and are strong statements of beautiful and functional spaces. As designers, creative thinkers, and engaged citizens, they understand the value of exterior environments that create a sense of place. Successful placemaking leads to the long-term care and use of these spaces by the public. At site this is the goal in all they do: create spaces that are well-loved and well-utilized by the communities they reside within. Throughout 30 years in business, they have made their name in Chicago for leadership and innovation in urban design and landscape architecture, commitment to design excellence, and community-based planning approach. Each project brings a measure of social responsibility, placemaking, and land stewardship.