Trace Planning & Design

We are a planning and design company specializing in community development and master planning projects. Our firm commonly works for municipal and private clients on a variety of culturally and socially significant projects; however, understanding and addressing environmental concerns are an important component of our work. We advance the limits of sustainable design with innovative, interdisciplinary design concepts. Our corporate nature is collaboration. We work with a wide variety of professional perspectives and experiences, and because we routinely consult with one another, we can handle complex challenges more readily than other firms. We deliver unexpected insights, solve unforeseen problems, and often create work that achieves even more than our clients imagined. Trace’s planning and community design practice creates design solutions that are a synthesis of analysis, environmental responsibility, and cultural contexts. Our commitment to both the real and the imagined, the achievable and the visionary, distinguishes our work. Working collaboratively in focused interdisciplinary teams — on the regional, community, urban district, campus, and site-specific levels — we define and develop ideas, concepts, and strategies that address the great diversity of planning and urban design challenges facing our clients.