Comprehensive + a la carte services

We recognize that every space, place and project is different and special. From full service master plans and creative visioning to site specific design solutions and focused community development strategies -- Teska's team responds to a wide range of project types, scales, and complexities.

PLANNING & ZONING
  • Comprehensive Plans
  • Special Area Plans
  • Strategic Plans
  • Special Service Areas
  • Transit Oriented Development
  • Zoning and Codes
  • Development Review

Fundamental to every assignment is the goal to build strong, attractive, livable communities. Our work is client focused, with each product articulating the goals and implementation choices of the individual community.

ENGAGEMENT
  • Workshops
  • Focus Groups
  • Facilitation
  • Mind Mapping
  • Web Development
  • Interactive Ideation Tools
  • Visualizations + Infographics
  • Marketing Campaigns
  • Surveys + Polls

More fun, more done. Our in-person and virtual outreach and facilitation methods are considered, creative, inclusive and effective. Teska ensures concerns and aspirations are understood allowing for collaborative ownership of plans.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
  • Tax Increment Financing
  • Fiscal Impact Analysis
  • Special Service Areas
  • Grant Writing
  • Funding Strategies
  • Market Studies

Behind every good plan is a financial strategy that works. We help clients match appropriate design and planning solutions with the revenue streams needed to make their projects a reality.

SITE DESIGN
  • Public Parks and Playgrounds,
  • Campus Design
  • Educational, Healthcare, Resort, Office
  • Planned Community Amenity Design
  • Historic Estate Residential Design
  • Site Capacity Studies for Highest and Best Use

Our site design work compliments a property's natural features while balancing market suitable goals and client aspirations. Teska assists developers, homebuilders, municipalities and institutions with reworking environments to create an authentic sense of place.

 

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
  • Strategic Plans
  • Housing Plans
  • Land Bank Studies and Start-Up
  • Quality of Life Plans
  • Development Strategies

Housing and inclusive growth are fundamental to building and maintaining strong, equitable communities. Teska works with residents, local leaders, and non-profits to prepare successful community development strategies that are implemented and get built.

 

VIRTUAL OUTREACH
  • Virtual Open Houses
  • Comment Mapping
  • Engaging Surveys
  • Online Visioning
  • Participatory Budgeting
  • Discussion Forums
  • Dynamic Web Forms
  • Real Time Quick Polls
  • Video Development

Innovative online tools and virtual engagement can improve transparency, strengthen accessibility, and enhance choice and comfort in the ways participants engage. Teska provides clients and communities with a toolbox of outreach options, best practice guidelines, and support systems to meet their unique needs.

LAND PLANNING
  • Master Planned Communities
  • Conservation Open Space Planned Communities
  • Planned Unit Developments (PUD)
  • Infill Development
  • Mixed Use Developments
  • Transit Oriented Development
  • Traditional and Neo Neighborhood Developments
  • Resolving Land Use conflicts
  • Approval and Entitlement Exhibits / Assistance

From master planned communities to site specific transit oriented and mixed use developments, Teska is a leader in designing inspired plans, creating land value and resolving land use conflicts through comprehensive coordinated design.

PUBLIC PLACES
  • Streetscape Design
  • Corridor Development
  • Parks, Plazas and Public Squares
  • Downtown and Façade Improvements
  • Urban Regenerative Infill
  • Multi Modal Transportation Design
  • Neighborhood-Based Branding Projects
  • Gateway and Wayfinding Signage

There is no such thing as "place" without "people". Teska engages locals to re-imagine and re-energize public plazas, corridors, streetscapes, downtowns, and infill sites to put the "heart" and "soul" back into community-centered spaces.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
  • Schematic / Conceptual Design
  • Design Development
  • Construction Documentation
  • Construction Administration
  • Graphic Visualization
  • Public Engagement
  • Landscape Planting
  • Hardscape Design

Teska offers extensive design services in landscape architecture. Our clients include developers, architects, engineers - basically anyone looking to enhance their project or property with creative design solutions.

 

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