Established in early 2017, Site Collaborative is a landscape architecture firm cultivated from the desire to create memorable, sustainable places while providing exceptional client services, unique design solutions, creative project approaches, and detailed technical focus, all blended with a highly collaborative spirit. From their main office near downtown Raleigh, Site Collaborative works with municipal governments, architects, engineers, and site developers throughout the country, with a specific regional focus on North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. The firm creates spaces that intermingle aesthetics, constructability, ecological processes, and the unique human experience - specifically parks, greenways, public lands, campuses, urban redevelopments, and suburban site retrofits. Typical services include site analysis, community engagement, public meeting facilitation, conceptual design, master planning, 3D visualization, final design, construction documentation, site permitting, bid administration, construction observation, post-occupancy analysis, and owner's representation.


Danville Riverfront Park; Danville, VA

This critically important, 4-acre parcel at the nexus of Main Street, Memorial Drive, and the Dan River is set to be completed in late 2025. The $16 million project will serve as a celebratory reminder of Danville's industrial past with an emphasis toward promoting activities and economic development in the rapidly redeveloping Downtown Danville. Working with a significant flooding risk and stormwater runoff from much of the surrounding impervious parcels, a key project goal was integrating green infrastructure, resilient park spaces, and low-impact development techniques into this unique urban setting along the majestic Dan River.PHOTO CREDIT: SITE COLLABORATIVE

 




Doyle Thomas Park Splashpad; Danville, VA

Danville's first three splashpads, spread throughout the city within neighborhood parks, were created by Site Collaborative, who led design, permitting, and contract administration from 2022 through early 2025. As one of the three, the splashpad at Doyle Thomas Park creates an opportunity for two very distinct communities on both sides of the park to gather, play, and cool down through a historically referential yet forward-looking design with playful and bold elements. PHOTO CREDIT: SITE COLLABORATIVE




Gateway Plaza Redevelopment; Raleigh, NC

Site Collaborative recently completed the renovation of a 1960s-era shopping center just north of downtown Raleigh. Along with the two existing buildings totaling over 78,000 square feet of roof, the six-acre site underwent a complete overhaul. Improvements included removing 1.5 acres of asphalt, planting 85 trees, creating a small central plaza for events and performances, developing an informal pedestrian alley, emphasizing native landscaping, enhancing the pedestrian system, installing 10 above-ground stormwater cisterns, and creating six small and one very large bioretention cells. PHOTO CREDIT: SITE COLLABORATIVE




Robertson Millpond Preserve; Wendell, NC

Robertson Millpond Preserve - home of the western-most Bald Cypress swamp in North Carolina created partially by the migratory patterns of the extinct Carolina Parakeet and partially by the nearly 200-year-old mill dam - is now part of Wake County's Open Spaces and Nature Preserves. From 2017 to 2020, Site Collaborative led the design and permitting of land-based and water-based access points in addition to recreational opportunities, including an ecologically sensitive parking area, a floating dock, visitor staging areas, a kayak/canoe route, a pier for fishing and sitting on helical piers, and stormwater treatment devices to protect the sensitive pond habitat from stormwater runoff and visitors. PHOTO CREDIT: SITE COLLABORATIVE

As seen in LASN magazine, October 2025.