Urban Design Partners

Urban Design Partners (UDP) describes itself as a collaborative group of experts in planning, landscape architecture, engineering and urban design. The firm states that it specialises in complex projects ranging in scale from the site to the city, and that it works where innovative design solutions lead to places that connect people, nature and economy.

Its stated disciplines are planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, urban design, and rezoning and entitlements. The company says it has worked to create a culture that removes barriers and resists the creation of silos, arguing that having each discipline stay narrowly focused limits a project's potential.

Instead it describes an integrated design approach in which the entire design team and project stakeholders are engaged from beginning to end. UDP reports more than 20 years of trading and lists offices in Charlotte and Raleigh, with the Charlotte office at 1213 W Morehead Street, Suite 450, and the Raleigh office at 150 Fayetteville Street, Suite 1310.

Its published portfolio is organised into adaptive reuse, civic and cultural, commercial and office, mixed use and urban infill, neighbourhoods and housing, and parks, recreation and trails. Named projects include Optimist Hall, Anker Haus, Chantilly on the Green, Cedar Walk, City Gateway, Academy Village, Dutchman's Creek Greenway, Queen Park Social, Millhouse Apartments, Trilogy Lake Norman, Larue Townhomes and Collins Ridge.

The firm's site lists a leadership team of Paul Pennell, Brian Smith, Brian Richards, Salman Moazzam and Hannah Breed, and a wider team of design professionals.