Projects

Village of Whispering Pines

Coaly Design is the lead consultant facilitating the production of the Recreation and Open Space Plan for the Village of Whispering Pines, located in Moore County, NC. The team is working closely with the Village’s Recreation and Open Space Committee and Village planning staff. The process began with a site analysis of the Village’s natural landscape, existing land use patterns, and an inventory of open space and recreation facilities in the Village. The consultant team led an initial community meeting to gauge the resident’s preferences and feedback. The process will continue with the presentation of the draft plan to the community at a public meeting and to Village Council. The final plan will be completed in the spring of 2012.

Town of Red Springs

Coaly Design has been working with the Town of Red Springs, located in Robeson County, NC, to envision and implement an overall land use plan for the town. Red Springs was awarded a grant through the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center and was accepted into the Center’s Small Town Economic Prosperity program (STEP). Coaly Design has facilitated STEP initiatives for the Town which were determined at a community visioning workshop. Through this workshop priority projects were identified such as town gateway entrance signage, design of a downtown park, streetscape improvements, and improvements to the historic springs in the town. Coaly Design’s involvement with Red Springs will continue through 2012.

Christ the King Lutheran Church Playground

Coaly Design has contracted with Christ the King Lutheran Church in Cary, NC, to redesign the church’s on-site daycare playground facility. The playground facility is used by children in the 2-5 year old range. The playground will be expanded by 3000 sf and include a paved circular track for riding bikes, vegetable boxes, a sand play area, water elements, acoustic elements, an “imagination station” to stimulate creativity, and a variety of play equipment.

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Conservation Based Affordable Housing

Coaly Design has begun work on an affordable housing conservation subdivision in Spring Lake, North Carolina, with the Kingdom Community Development Corporation. The conservation subdivision will be designed with sustainable principals, clustering the home sites to provide the residents with common, useable, open space.
Two design charrettes were held in late 2009, with the community of Spring Lake to facilitate the site planning process. The project has received Town Board approval and is currently in the design development phase.

Spring Branch
Medical Park

Coaly Design is under contract with The Lundy Group, Inc., to develop streetscape plans and site plans for the 50 acre Spring Branch Medical Park. Construction will begin for the first medical office building on the campus in the spring of 2011.

Town of Wake Forest Design Projects

From 2007-2009, Coaly Design was under contract with the Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina, for landscape architectural services. The contract included evaluating existing features in the Town and recommending improvements. Projects designed to date include signage and landscape improvements at the intersection of US 1 (Capital Boulevard) and South Main Street; recommending improvements to the Susie Powell Garden located downtown; and streetscape improvements in Wake Forest’s Historic District along North Main Street. The streetscape improvements along North Main Street were installed in February of 2009.

St. Monica’s Teen Center

Coaly Design was the landscape architect responsible for the site redevelopment for the St. Monica’s Teen Center in downtown Raleigh. The Teen Center is a City of Raleigh Community Development Department project which consisted of a 4,675 sf renovation of the former St. Monica’s Catholic Church. The church was originally constructed in the 1930s as a Catholic church for the neighborhood’s African American population.

A.L. Harris Estates Wetland Greenway

Coaly Design has contracted with the Black Family Land Trust, the Conservation Fund, and Gateway Community Development Corporation to design a greenway for the A.L. Harris Estates conservation subdivision in Henderson, North Carolina. The greenway will showcase the wetland’s biological diversity, including two boardwalk crossings of the wetland and educational activities for local schools.

WRAL-TV 5

In the spring of 1999, while under the employ of OBS Landscape Architects, Kimberly was the lead designer for a master plan of WRAL’s campus along Western Boulevard in Raleigh.
The focus of the master plan was the design of a new entrance road and entrance courtyard for the studio. The redesign led to the creation of the Transmission and Terrace Gardens. The Transmission Garden’s focal point is a reincarnation of WRAL’s famous fountain. The fountain is the point at which bands of pavers radiate outward representing analog television signal patterns.

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