2024 Class of Fellows, Charles Grant Meacci, FASLA, North Carolina Chapter

Bolton & Menk, Charlotte, NC
by Bolton & Menk

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With over twenty years of design and planning experience, Grant Meacci has led a wide variety of transformative projects in both the public and private sectors, working at the intersection of planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to create vibrant places and foster stronger, more equitable communities. He has influenced a generation of students, educated thousands of residents, elevated the discourse with the land development industry, and created influential design policy that has become a model for urban form and design for cities of all sizes. His unwavering passion to ensure that small towns and underserved communities are informed and empowered to shape their communities led him to create a nonprofit foundation to provide pro bono urban design and landscape architecture services. As a founder and the first executive director of the Design Workshop Foundation, Meacci led group through its formation and pivotal first years of service. He subsequently formed a second nonprofit, Community Development Studio, to provide pro bono services to a wider geography, assisting with cultural sustainability efforts, community park projects, and other projects throughout the east coast. Meacci then served as executive director of the Raleigh Urban Design Center, a municipal planning and urban design public practice housed within the city government, where he created public dialogue around the rapid growth in the city. Currently working in the private sector, Meacci has meaningfully advanced the art, stewardship, science, and social responsibility of landscape architecture.

As seen in LASN magazine, September 2024.