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Landscape
Architecture
As a leading landscape architect in New York State, Saratoga Associates blends environmental sensitivity with creative design to shape meaningful and resilient places. Our landscape architecture team specializes in parks and recreation, green infrastructure, trails and complete streets, and public spaces that enrich community life. With decades of experience serving regions like the Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, and the surrounding Steuben, Tompkins, and Ontario Counties, we partner with public agencies, developers, and institutions to design vibrant, people-centered environments. Contact us to learn more about our landscape architecture services and get started on your project!
providing access
activation + connectivity
Our Approach
Saratoga Associates’ work encompasses parks and public landscapes, urban streetscapes, plazas and waterfronts, transportation corridors, academic and corporate campuses, brownfields and historic sites. With clients ranging from public agencies and private developers to cultural and educational institutions, we strive to make compelling places emerge out of respect for the nature, history, culture and use of a site.
Our site design begins with a clear articulation of achievable project goals and a program of proposed features and activities. Thorough research ensures that projects reflect a sense of place and express an understanding of environmental and ecological conditions. Our technical expertise makes for projects that are delivered efficiently and with great attention to detail.
We are active stewards of the environment. Using the latest in product technology, best management practice standards, and common sense, Saratoga Associates works to reduce the environmental impact of projects and project maintenance as a matter of course.
Community engagement
With over 50 years of experience, we know that each successful project relies on intentional community input and support. Our belief in public outreach supports our conviction that by creating regenerative landscapes, we can fortify not just the ecology and environment, but also the community. We specialize in working closely with clients, stakeholder groups, and project teams to provide visually compelling, sustainable design solutions.
Planning, Visioning, and Implementation in Plattsburgh: Like many of its neighbors in the northeastern United States, the City of Plattsburgh is a regional urban center which has had to balance its numerous assets with the forces of change in the twentieth century. Its once thriving downtown, and resort- and industry-based waterfront, endured a period of decline which has recently begun to be reversed.
Revitalization is in the Name
Landscape
meets planning
We know that navigating grant-funded processes can be overwhelming. That’s why we’ve created resources to help you get the most of your funding, build public support, and ultimately achieve the right project for your community.
Common Obstacles and Questions
- How do we get money from the State?
- How do we manage money from the State?
- What's the fine print (MWBE, reimbursement, etc)?
- How do we implement our idea (vision to action)?
- Where do we go from here?
