LandDesign is an award-winning design firm offering urban design, planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture solutions to public, private and federal sector clients across the globe. With offices across the United States, the LandDesign team effectively brings innovative, buildable, sustainable and ecologically responsible projects to life worldwide. We believe in creating places that matter.
Terra Firma drives value creation. Founded by Private Equity pioneer Guy Hands in 1994, Terra Firma has a 30+ year track record of investing in transformational private equity, operational real estate and infrastructure plus. Since establishment, Terra Firma has invested €18 billion in 43 businesses with an aggregate enterprise value of over €52 billion.
Terra Firma means ‘solid ground’. It reflects our consistent and distinctive approach to investment. We buy asset-rich businesses in essential industries that can be transformed through fundamental change in the long term. As such, we invest time, money and expertise into transforming the strategy, operations and finances of the businesses we acquire, recognising that long term success is not achieved purely by focusing on short-term objectives but through dedicated partnership, integrity and tenacity.
As our name implies, we’re not just a planning and design firm. Instead, we address the full scope of placemaking — planning and urban design, context-specific coding, community engagement, implementation, and the marketing of great places — and put our focus on the kind of viability that turns vision into reality. United by a mutual passion for creating timeless and endearing places, we’re a unique collection of professionals — planners, designers, coding fanatics, economic strategists, and storytellers schooled in journalism, public relations and marketing — rigorous in our insistence that every skill, every strategy, every tool serve the goal of making places in which families and businesses of all kinds can thrive for generations to come.
Operating in both the United States and Canada, we’re relentless connectors. Our extensive relationship building and broad network of strategic partnerships allows us to transcend the limitations of a static, in-house staff with custom project teams, tailor-assembled to the specifics of each unique engagement.