NEWMAN GARRISON + PARTNERS ARCHITECTURAL FIRM ANNOUNCES
EXPANSION OF MASTER PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN STUDIO
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 17, 2009
Contact: Sheri Gailliard
Phone: 949-756-0818
sgailliard@nggpartners.com
NEWPORT BEACH, CA – Newman Garrison + Partners architectural firm has expanded
its master planning and urban design studio with the addition of two senior planning and
landscape architecture executives to the firm’s professional staff. Headquartered in
Newport Beach, CA, Newman Garrison + Partners is an architecture and land-planning
firm with a successful history that includes more than 75 years of combined experience
and the design of more than 500,000 residential units in urban and suburban locations
worldwide.
Kevin Newman, CEO of Newman Garrison + Partners, announced that Michael Doty and
Glenn Taylor, both previously with Irvine, CA – based PBR, a planning, design and
environmental research firm, have joined Newman Garrison to lead the planning and
design studio, which will concentrate on community planning and urban and resort design
nationally and internationally.
Newman said the decision to expand his firm at this time is the result of extensive due
diligence he and his staff have undertaken over the past several months to get a better
“boots-on-the-ground” read on the health of the regional housing markets by meeting with
both builders and city planners. For the first time since the beginning of the year, he says
he sees meaningful signals that both the economy and housing markets are improving.
“As the housing market continues to stabilize, we see signs of recovery on the horizon that
we believe will begin to reinvigorate the land development industry as landowners start to
plan their sites for development within the next 2-3 years,” Newman said. “Another
reason for expanding the community design studio now is the availability of such great
professional talent as Mike and Glenn. We are confident that with their leadership, our
community design studio will be ahead of the land development curve that we see coming,
and they will bring their knowledge and expertise to our firm at precisely the right time for
us to take advantage of new opportunities as the real estate industry rebounds.”
Although his firm is currently focused primarily on the design of mixed-use and residential
development in urban locations, Newman said he expects the scope of work to broaden as
the housing markets improve to include development on the edge of urban areas as well
as increasing opportunities for community and resort development in the U.S. and
worldwide. Additionally, he said his firm will establish landscape architecture and interior
design studios in the near future.
“Our goal is to be a full-service, fully integrated design firm with the highest caliber of
professional capabilities for every aspect of development from land planning to interior
design,” Newman said. “As we look to the future, we believe land developers and
builders will want to consolidate and streamline the planning and design processes to
achieve greater efficiencies and to promote optimum collaboration among the creative
talents that design their projects. Gone are the days when multiple planning and design
firms are retained by a client to work on a single project. We believe the new model will be
a developer or builder retaining a single firm to work on several projects.”
Formerly executive vice president of PBR, Doty has extensive experience in all facets of
planning for master-planned communities, resorts, new towns, residential subdivisions,
commercial centers, business and industrial parks, and mixed-use projects. An expert in
site analysis and identifying opportunities for community development, he is an
accomplished leader in program development and project management. Doty has
directed numerous highly visible, large-scale community planning projects in the U.S.,
Mexico and Pacific Rim countries.
Doty began his career with PBR in 1971 as a landscape architect and was promoted to
executive vice president of all of the firm’s design projects in 1985. Prior PBR, he was a
manager of landscape architecture at Lester Walls & Associates and before that he was a
community planner at The Irvine Company, one of the nation’s leading land planning and
development companies and owner/developer of the Irvine Ranch in Orange County, CA.
A licensed landscape architect in California and Hawaii, Doty earned a bachelor’s of
science degree in landscape architecture from California Polytechnic Institute in Pomona,
CA.
Before joining Newman Garrison + Partners, Taylor was a senior associate at PBR. He
has more than 30 years of large-scale master planning experience which spans the wide
spectrum of projects from mixed-use, commercial/industrial projects to specific site
planning of hillside residential developments. His experience also includes new town and
planned communities, recreation resorts, special facility planning and golf course-oriented
communities.
Taylor’s resume encompasses some of the nation’s top planned communities and largescale, mixed-use developments. His project portfolio includes Rancho Mission Viejo in
Orange County, CA, where he assisted in long-range master planning for this 42,000-acre
working cattle ranch. He also participated in the strategic planning of the successful 5,000acre, 12,000-home Rancho Santa Margarita community within Rancho Mission Viejo, and
provided detailed site planning studies for its 300-acre town center, 500-acre office
business park, and 140-acre corporate/office complex.
Taylor's most recent activities includes master planning for a new destination, lakeoriented resort community in Nebraska and the design of Riverbend Crossing a 4,000acre recreational resort community in Tunica, MS. He also has experience in international
master planning, including resort and marina planning of the Costa Palma Resort in
Mazatlan, Mexico and master planning of the successful, world-known Sunset Beach
Resort, located in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Taylor’s career also includes planning and design positions with The Glenn Company,
Newport Beach; EDAW, Irvine, CA; Vail, Speck, Taylor, Irvine; County of Orange and
County of Riverside planning departments; and the City of Monterey planning department.
He earned a bachelor of science degree in urban and regional planning from California
Polytechnic Institute, Pomona.
For more information, please contact Sheri Gailliard, Marketing Manager, Newman
Garrison + Partners sgailliard@nggpartners.com or 949-756-0818.
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