Donna Walcavage

Landscape architect Donna Walcavage has joined the Manhattan practice of design firm Stantec as a principal landscape architect. Walcavage has been involved in the planning and design of landscapes and public spaces in the New York City area for decades. With specific focus on dense urban areas, she specializes in streetscapes, urban waterfront redevelopment, bikeway and pedestrian facilities as well as public parks and greenways.

Donna McCurdy, business manager, and Richard Conant, FASLA, president, celebrate 40 years of service with Foster Conant & Associates, based in Orlando, Fla.

Orlando's oldest landscape architectural practice, Foster Conant & Associates, is celebrating 40-year anniversaries for two of its employees this month. Richard Conant, president, and Donna McCurdy, business manager, have both been employed with the firm for 40 years. In today's constantly changing environment, it's unusual to find employees with such tenure. They both started working at the firm in 1973, shortly after the firm's incorporation in 1969. In the past four decades, they have survived three recessions, enjoyed relationships with many great clients, designed numerous challenging projects, worked with many delightful colleagues, seen incredible changes in technology, and amassed a wealth of knowledge and history for both the firm and the central Florida area.

Leigh Kyle

Brad Lents

Lucas Shellhammer

Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects, a San Diego-based firm, has promoted Leigh Kyle to managing principal, Brad Lents to senior associate, and Lucas Shellhammer to associate. In their new roles, all three will continue to advance the firm's mission. Collectively, the trio has years of institutional and civic landscape architecture, site planning and design experience, and have applied their considerable talents to many high profile projects. A landscape architect with the firm since 2004, Kyle has served as project manager for a wide variety of built and planning work, including San Diego's Downtown Parks and Open Space Implementation Plan; the 30-acre Los Angeles State Historic Park in downtown Los Angeles, and the master plan for the Inn at the French Laundry in Yountville, Calif. During his five-year tenure with the firm, Lents has contributed his skills to the new San Diego Federal Courthouse, the Mercado del Barrio, Commercial and Imperial Avenue Implementation Plan, the Southeast Community Plan Update and the Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge. Shellhammer is currently a project landscape designer for the Living Lab in the City Heights neighborhood and the housing development Fincas de Mercedes, just outside Guatemala City. He has assisted in the production of construction documents for urban enhancement and mixed-use development for Mercado del Barrio in San Diego, Palomar Pomerado Hospital in San Marcos.

Michael Kroll

Miller Legg was recently awarded the five-year landscape architecture services contract with the Florida Department of Transportation District 6 covering Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties. Services under contract will include conceptual landscape, hardscape and irrigation design, plans production, cost estimating, tree removal/relocation, plan reviews, agency coordination, field reviews/inspections, maintenance agreements and public meeting coordination. "For over 18 years, Miller Legg's FDOT award-winning landscape architecture team has provided the department with dozens of successful landscape enhancement and design projects," said Michael Kroll, principal.

Mia Lehrer

Mia Lehrer + Associates was nominated for a People's Design Award for Nature Gardens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. As part of National Design Week, the public voted for the award from a pool of 20 works that emphasizes how innovative design makes a difference in our everyday lives. In the heart of L.A.'s urban center, it offers visitors a chance to experience local wildlife within the city's boundaries. The Nature Gardens were designed by Mia Lehrer and her staff, in collaboration with the Natural History Museum staff, CO Architects and Cordell Corporation.

Linda Barfield

Linda Barfield has joined Homestead Gardens as general manager for its landscape division in Davidsonville, Md. Barfield is a graduate of Louisiana State University where she earned a bachelor of landscape architecture and is a registered landscape architect in the state of Maryland as well as Puerto Rico. She comes with a wealth of experience having spent the previous six years with the Puerto Rico Tourism Company in the planning and development division.

Jeff Brophy

Land Design South, a land planning / landscape architecture firm, promoted Jeff Brophy to managing partner of the firm. In addition to maintaining his current role with clients and project oversight of the site planning division, he will be in charge of the firms overall management and day-to-day operations. Brophy is currently the president-elect for the Florida Chapter of ASLA, on the Palm Beach County Development Review Advisory Committee and an active member of Palm Beach County's 6 Pillars Task Force.