Kawasaki/Theilacker and Associates is pleased to announce the promotion of Don Ueno to Senior Principal and the firm name change to KTU8A (Kawasaki/Theilacker/Ueno and Associates). Ueno, a California registered Landscape Architect, has twenty?EUR??,,????'??+one years of professional experience in commercial and multi-family residential development and parks, recreation and urban design.

KTU&A has also named Michael Peltz and Pat Higginbotham as principals and James Kuhiken and Mike Singleton as senior associates. All four are California registered Landscape Architects. KTU&A, established in 1970, is a San Diego?EUR??,,????'??+based landscape architecture and planning firm.

Wilidan Associates has announced the appointment of John C. Wieneke as division manager of landscape architect services in the firm’s Los Angeles regional office. A registered Landscape Architect in both California and Arizona, Wieneke has over 13 years of experience in landscape architecture, urban design, planning and redevelopment. He received his bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Illinois and his master’s degree from Harvard University.

John K. Sterzer and Allen W. Gross, principals of Sterzer Gross Associates, have opened a planning and design office in Scottsdale, Arizona. Specialists in land use planning, environmental reports, zoning, parks and land related master planning and habitat design, the firm also offers landscape architecture, zoological parks master planning and habitat design, native plant revegitation and salvage and low?EUR??,,????'??+water?EUR??,,????'??+use planting.