Press Releases

Global landscape architecture and urban design firm Civitas is continuing its decades-long relationship with the City of San Diego to develop design concepts for the highly anticipated renewal of Ocean Beach Pier...

The University of Denver (DU) has selected architects Anderson Mason Dale Architects, and landscape architecture and urban design firm, Civitas, for the University’s newest endeavor on its distinguished campus: STEM Horizons...

Civitas has unveiled its design of the four-season oasis, Central Commons Park, which will be open year-round and feature unique seasonal amenities including an ice-skating rink, a staging area for concerts, picnic areas with tables and BBQ stations, fire features, and several patio spaces perfect for outdoor gatherings...

Civitas Design for Revitalization of Finlay Park Moves Forward...

Announcing the Winners of The Waterfront Center’s 2020 Excellence on the Waterfront Awards Program — Civitas to receive Honor Award for Minnesota lakefront...

Tampa’s Civitas-designed Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park has won double honors in the 2019 American Architecture Awards, the nation’s highest public awards for design excellence, with an award for the park design and a separate award for the W-designed River Center...

A new Civitas study of the busy Port of San Diego was presented to Port Commissioners to rave reviews. The fully achievable vision energizes the working waterfront’s mile-long North Embarcadero as a world-class destination, creating vibrant, inviting, pedestrian-friendly and sustainable public space...

ASLA-NY has honored Civitas with a 2019 Design Award for the Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park in Tampa, Florida. The transformed 25-acre park redresses social justice issues and engages its West Tampa community, including with a reengineered river for calm-water paddling education...

Two Denver projects are taming big streets: Civitas is reframing the conversation in favor of nature, community and culture on Denver’s iconic Alameda and Hale Parkways, providing traffic calming measures while enhancing pedestrian amenities, habitat and environmental resiliency...

In honor of its 35th anniversary, Civitas has created a new website and logo as a means of shifting the conversation from projects to philosophy of practice. New Marketing Director Blake Jordan spearheaded the effort, updating messaging to express the evolving Civitas mission and culture...