Nimrod Long and Associates, Inc., is a professional design firm providing land planning, landscape architecture and urban design services in Birmingham, Alabama.

The firm?EUR??,,????'???s design goal is to create works that enrich the community tapestry, improve the quality of lives in the community, and enlarge their own experience as designers. The firm believes the best marketing tool is to leave a legacy of projects that are memorable and have positively affected the people who use them. To achieve this goal it is important to continue to grow as a team, to expand interests, experiences, and expertise.

Nimrod Long III, FASLA, the firm?EUR??,,????'???s founder and president, has always believed that giving clients lasting value in design services and finished product gives the greatest opportunity to gain new commissions, and, more importantly, maintain existing clients. NLA has two principals, Joel Eliason, ASLA, and Dave Giddens, ASLA; the senior associate is Ryan Collins, ASLA. These key people have been responsible for many of the firm?EUR??,,????'???s finest projects.

The firm has a long list of memorable and award winning projects to its credit.

Vulcan Park

NLA is the project landscape architectural firm for the renovation of historic Vulcan Park. The park is home to Vulcan, the tallest (55 feet) cast iron statue in the world. Vulcan was Birmingham?EUR??,,????'???s ?EUR??,,????'??Grand Prize?EUR??,,????'?? winning entry in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. In 1938, the WPA built the park as a permanent home for the statue.

Mountain Brook Village and Greenway Master Plan

Mountain Brook?EUR??,,????'???s village streetscape project grew out of an appeal by merchants for improvements to remain competitive with other local shopping areas. Nimrod Long and Associates was hired to design streetscape improvements for three historic retail villages. The goal of the project was to enhance the existing qualities of the villages with improved sidewalks, attractive lighting, better parking and proposals for appropriate infill development to strengthen the village?EUR??,,????'???s character.

Peachtree Street

Nimrod Long and Associates was awarded first prize in an international design competition for the redesign of Peachtree Street, co-sponsored by Central Atlanta Progress and the city of Atlanta. NLA?EUR??,,????'???s winning entry is based on the belief that the development of quality civic space, whether parks, plazas, or pedestrian corridors, must be firmly tied to the history and physical context of the site. The jury selected the NLA entry out of 112 entries from 13 nations.

Woodruff Park

Woodruff Park, in the heart of the city?EUR??,,????'???s financial district, is Peachtree Street?EUR??,,????'???s most significant open space. The Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta (CODA) identified the park as one of the major pedestrian sites associated with the 1996 Olympics. The park?EUR??,,????'???s Peachtree Street location, central proximity to the Underground, Auburn Avenue, Martin Luther King Jr. National Park, and Olympic venues made it a vital part of the city?EUR??,,????'???s Olympic pedestrian system.

These projects reflect only a small portion of the large body of work completed by this firm. NLA has also done many master plans for large commercial office parks, college campus, and government facilities, and many high-end residential site and landscape plans that have won awards. Nimrod Long and Associates has a staff of 11 landscape architects and has worked on projects throughout the southeast.

To quote the firm?EUR??,,????'???s president, Nimrod Long III, ?EUR??,,????'??I have been fortunate over the years in the individuals that have been a part of my career?EUR??,,????'??+the clients certainly, but also my wife Nancy and my associates. I pride myself that NLA has always worked for the top clients in our market, and our work reflects the range and quality of our clients. I also learned early the value of attracting and retaining the very best people to produce the very best work.?EUR??,,????'??