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~ , < Urban Edges, Denver, Colorado Who We Are Urban Edges, Inc. is a planning, design and development firm. We help our clients find creative, yet pragmatic solutions to environmental and social needs. Our goal is a better relationship between people and their surroundings - both natural and man-made. We have a solid history of helping our clients work successfully with limited resources to realize outstanding results. Urban Edges addresses problems by bringing together the appropriate disciplines in a coordinated team approach. In addition to proven project planning and management services, our clients benefit from top expertise in landscape architecture, wildlife biology, land use law, engineering, economic development and finance. We insist on excellence in all our projects and we have earned a reputation for vision, a pioneering spirit and persistence. Several Urban Edges projects have received local and national awards. Robert M. Searns, AICP Robert M. Searns is the founding owner of Urban Edges, Inc. - an urban design and planning firm based in Denver, Colorado. Bob is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Architecture and holds a Master of Architecture degree. He has an undergraduate degree in Economics. He has been practicing planning since 1971. Bob offers a broad range of skills from traditional planning and site layout to specialty skills in waterfront and public amenity development. He has directed implementation of several successful large-scale waterfront projects including Denver's Platte River Greenway - a la-mile, $10 million urban river recreation corridor - and major riverfront improvements in Arapahoe County, Colorado. His Arapahoe County project was the winner of the 1986 American Planning Association National Current Topic Award. He has planned a number of community development, park and open space projects for clients in the Rocky Mountain West and Great Lakes region. He has directed fund-raising efforts for several large-scale projects and has drafted comprehensive planning policy statements. His work history places a strong emphasis on getting projects implemented. Bob is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners by virtue of meeting experience requirements and passing the AICP national exam. He also holds a Colorado Real Estate License. He has been a speaker at a number of national planning conferences, and has had articles published in Landscape Architecture and other national publications. He has served on panels including the Colorado Governor's Open Space and Agricultural Lands Committee and the Canada National Capital Waterfront Workshop. 38 Wendy N. Booth - Landscape Architect/Research Associate Wendy offers a strong background in landscape design, landscape construction and computer graphic systems. Wendy is also an experienced writer and researcher. At Urban Edges, Wendy served as the project landscape architect for the Grand Junction Waterfront. She worked with the Urban Edges staff on numerous other design and planning efforts, including the Arkansas River State Recreation Area Concept Plan and the Colorado Springs Midland Corridor Masterplan. Wendy has prepared graphic and written promotional material for the award winning Arapahoe Greenway, the Arkansas River State Recreation Area as well as Holly Dental Associates and Kimball Real Estate in Ithaca, New York. Wendy keeps up to date on the use of computer design and drafting services and desktop publishing for the landscape architectural/planning professions. For three semesters Wendy taught both beginning and advanced Autocad at the Community College of Denver. Wendy is a member of the Denver Autocad Users Group. Prior to joining Urban Edges, Wendy operated a landscape architecture and construction firm. She handled marketing, design and contract administration. Wendy worked with residential, commercial and institutional clients throughout the Denver metro area. Wendy graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture. Before enrolling at Cornell, Wendy studied urban development, economics and architectural history at Northwestern University in Evanston, illinois. Wendy continues to learn about horticulture and computer related topics at the Denver Botanic Garden and the Community College of Denver. Wendy is a member and active volunteer for the Denver Botanic Garden. She is also a member of the Denver Art Museum, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Nature Conservancy. Jones & Jones, Seattle, Washington Grant R. Jones, Grant R. Jones is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a senior partner and co-founder of Jones & Jones, Architects & Landscape Architects, Seattle, Washington. He began his career as an architect (B.A 1961, University of Washington), but over the next three years while working in the Seattle office of landscape architect Richard Haag and studying under the late poet Theodore Roethke, his interest quickly shifted to the landscape-at-Iarge. He later received an M.A. in landscape architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, culminating in a Frederick Sheldon Travelling Fellowship (1966-1967) for travel through South America and Europe.