Great parks and open spaces that contribute to a community’s quality of life and economic development don’t just happen; they are planned deliberately by both City staff and, more importantly, the citizens.  Parks, Recreation & Open Space (PROS) plans serve as the guide for future developments and outline the recommendations for park and recreation capital improvement […]

The group behind a proposed three-kilometre gondola connecting to the city’s river valley is confident the sky-high project is achievable, unveiling a plan to tie it into the Rossdale Power Plant. Prairie Sky said it has been consulting with Tourism Edmonton and the city’s transit service. It has also retained Edmonton design company Dialog and Seattle’s SCJ Alliance […]

Each year, the Zweig Group produces rankings for outstanding architecture, engineering, environmental, and multidiscipline firms in the U.S. and Canada. Thurston County’s SCJ Alliance received both the Best Firms to Work For award and Hot Firm award at Zweig’s annual conference in early October in Las Vegas.

Any given moment at Washington’s Chambers Creek Regional Park boasts visitors from all walks of life, and planners at the parks department and local consulting firm SCJ Alliance are working to keep that diverse “visitorship” happy, engaged, and growing.

Representatives from the City of Centralia’s public works department and a civil engineering firm invited residents to ask questions on a recently approved design and construction initiative known as the Centralia Streetscape Improvement Project (CSIP). At a Sept. 25 open house, Engineer Eric Johnston, Principal at SCJ Alliance, was one of a handful of hosts […]