CONSULTING PRACTICE

Fred Glick Design PLLC is a sole-proprietorship with primary offices in Mercer Island, Washington (Puget Sound) and Sun Valley, Idaho. The firm has project offices in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Glick provides senior level consulting, planning, urban design and landscape architecture services to a variety of public and private sector clients throughout the western United States. Mr. Glick is a recognized expert in consensus building on a range of challenging projects, including process facilitation, community outreach, and project stewardship. For projects requiring a greater depth of resources, the firm provides support personnel to implement Mr. Glick's project design and direction. Fred Glick Design PLLC is a certified Small Business Enterprise. Mr. Glick is a registered landscape architect in the states of California, Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

Throughout his career, Mr. Glick has strived for a comprehensive approach to all projects undertaken. His philosophy includes the pursuit of design excellence, creation of sustainable sites and communities, and inclusion of the client in all matters pertaining to both. Mr. Glick listens carefully to all involved project participants, both public and private, taking great care to integrate their interests in project development. This approach has proven successful time and again, as evidenced by the comments received from a number of Mr. Glick's clients, some of which are found below:

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

"It all started right here in Portland, and you had a lot to do with Portland's success."

             — Richard Feeney, Executive Director, Governmental Affairs, TriMet (Banfield Light Rail Project, Portland, OR)

"The process has been a phenomenal success – 500 individual properties affected with no major public relations problems. Thank you for your yeoman efforts."

             — Jody Fischer, Director of Public Affairs, TriMet (Banfield Light Rail Project, Portland, OR)

"I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the outstanding work product you delivered for the Gold Line light rail project in Los Angeles."

             — Ed P. Reyes, Councilmember, First District, City of Los Angeles (Metro Gold Line Light Rail, Marmion Way Corridor)

"The work you did to bring together our agency needs and to generate an urban design response to the community's significant concerns was outstanding."

"Within six weeks of starting work, you coordinated and led four public workshops at two-week intervals, analyzed key project issues, developed a dialogue with all participants in the process, and created an urban design approach that enabled all parties involved to agree to a corridor master plan that worked."

             — Steven Brye, Project Manager, Los Angeles Metro (Metro Gold Line Light Rail, Marmion Way Corridor)

"The project design is a showpiece that reflects the craftsman heritage of the neighborhood."

             — The Getty Conservation Institute, The Los Angeles Historic Resource Survey Report, 2008 (Metro Gold Line Light Rail, Marmion Way Corridor).

"Your ability to coordinate with a number of agencies while working with more than a dozen involved communities during preparation of an urban design master plan for half of Council District 1 was a great asset for the project."

"Your work has significantly raised the bar for other City projects."

             — Carlos Rios, Project Engineer, City of Los Angeles, Department of Transportation (Northeast Los Angeles Linkages Urban Design Master   Plan)

"Fred's oversight included developing the urban design & landscape plan alternatives for the corridor, leading public engagement meetings, creating the bike routing memorandum, preparing the visual analysis and contributing to the safety analysis section of the AA Study. Fred was an excellent team member and brought creativity to the table." 

             — Dolores Roybal-Saltarelli, Project Manager, Metro Los Angeles (Regional Connector Transit Corridor, Los Angeles, CA)

"The Newport Peninsula Urban Design Plan managed by Fred Glick helped put Newport on the map.  Sunset Magazine even cited Newport's Bay Front as the best waterfront in the west. Mr. Glick's involvement made that happen."

             — Michael Shoberg, Director of Planning, City of Newport, OR (Newport Peninsula Urban Design Plan)

"I believe you have done an exceptional job of site planning for Otter Village."

             — Bob Cortright, Department of Land Conservation and Development, State of Oregon (Otter Village Cluster Development Plan)

"The meeting was well-planned, extremely comprehensive, magnificently executed, and most certainly well received by the public."

             — Boris N. Georgeff, Rogue River Projects Coordinator, Army Corps of Engineers, (Elk Creek Lake Master Plan for Resource Use)

"While many people from the Corps and other agencies helped to ensure the success of the meeting, I especially want to compliment Fred Glick for doing an excellent job of planning and public involvement."

             — Jurgen Hess, Forest Landscape Architect, Rogue River National Forest (Elk Creek Lake Master Plan for Resource Use)

PROJECT SUB-CATEGORIES

Within each of the categories of work found on our home page, the various projects highlighted feature the following sub-categories: LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT • Corridor planning & design • Multi-modal bridge retrofits • Bikeways and bike routing plans supporting light rail • Downtown identity enhancement • Pedestrian right-of-way design • Transitway programming, planning & design in historic districts • Transit plaza design • Corridor urban design & landscape architecture WATERFRONT • Riverfront revitalization • Bayfront boardwalk design • Riverfront industrial lands - adaptive re-use • Waterfront park, recreation & open space - master planning • Oceanfront park & pedestrian facilities • Waterfront state park sewer system upgrade - landscape assessment • Resource use planning - reservoir enhancement • Highway corridor management plan - Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING • Linkages master planning • Downtown streetscape planning & design • Transportation corridor partnership planning • Alternative modes analysis • Infill & redevelopment strategies - national historic districts • City center urban planning • Urban design guidelines - light rail corridors • Pedestrian bridge concepts - neighborhood connectivity • Central business zone railroad depot - adaptive re-use plan • Pedestrian promenade concepts LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE • Oceanfront parks • Residential sites • Hospital campuses, courtyards, special facilities • Institutional facilities • Historic sites • Landscape reclamation • Public access areas, Army Corps of Engineers • Visual simulations - landscape screening for large industrial sites TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT • Transit station area assessment • Central city development planning • Town center planning • Facility planning & design • Transportation alternatives analysis - city centers • Multi-purpose transit plaza • Urban revitalization - multi-use sites, multi-modal corridors MASTER PLANNING • Resource use - lakeside recreation • Coastal destination resorts • Deferred maintenance plan - county park system • Regional trail planning & design • Cluster development plans • Retirement centers • Civic centers • National volcanic monument administrative headquarters • Corridor management strategy design charette