Longfellow Middle School Softball Fields

Longfellow Middle School Softball Fields Wauwatosa East High School’s softball team now hosts their opponents a the artificial turf field at Longfellow Middle School. Wauwautosa School District’s newest field at Longfellow Middle School is the new home diamond of the Tosa East High School softball team. The $1.8 million field renovation includes an artificial turf…

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Hart Park Interpretive Playground

Hart Park Interpretive Playground

Hart Park Interpretive Playground Families of Wauwatosa and the surrounding Milwaukee suburbs are enjoying the  Interpretive playground, splashpad and bandshell at Hart Park. The theme of the playground and landscape elements at North 70th and West State Streets is pre-settlement Wauwatosa with tributes to the Menonomee River, Native Americans, and the Schoonmaker Reef. The ADA…

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Jaycee Park Master Plan

Jaycee Park Master Plan GRAEF completed conceptual design of a 37-acre park that provides recommendations to meet the needs of the community and surrounding region while being flexible enough to accommodate for change. The design process included a comprehensive inventory and analysis of existing conditions, public engagement, design alternatives, cost estimating and 3D illustrations to…

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City of De Pere VFW Aquatic Facility

De Pere VFW Aquatic Facility The City of De Pere, WI added a new $7 million aquatic center. The project entails the conversion of the city’s former two public pools into “mini aquatic centers.” The VFW Aquatic Facility includes an entirely new 6,150-square-foot facility with a bathhouse containing bathrooms/changing rooms, office and guard spaces, first…

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Resch Expo Center

Resch Expo Center  The design team for the Resch Expo Center faced one significant challenge: create a new structure worthy of standing next to the iconic and historic Lambeau Field. The state-of-the-art facility is a catalyst for economic development and tourist destination travel for the region. It is designed to meet the next generation of…

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University of Alabama Track & Field

University of Alabama Track & Field The University of Alabama has a new collegiate level, NCAA Division I IAAF track and field on the Tuscaloosa, AL campus. As part of a collaborative design team, GRAEF was responsible for the design and engineering of the track and field replacement. The track and field complex has a nine…

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ProHealth Regional Cancer Center

ProHealth Regional Cancer Center GRAEF provided landscape architecture design and site/civil and traffic engineering services for this 116,000-square-foot regional cancer care center. Landscape program elements include green roofs, healing garden development, outdoor courtyards/terraces, pedestrian circulation and walkways, special paving areas, parking lot landscape and screening, site furniture, landscape lighting and site amenities. The cancer center…

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ProHealth Mukwonago Emergency Room

ProHealth Mukwonago Emergency Room ProHealth added an ER to its multi-specialty outpatient center in Mukwonago. This two-story, 66,500-square-foot building houses a new emergency department, an ambulance garage, an imaging expansion and mechanical support space on the lower level. The addition includes an extensive roof garden designed by GRAEF’s landscape architects. Also included is a new…

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Openlands Lakeshore Trail

Openlands Lakeshore Trail GRAEF provided overall design and project management, as we led a team of consultants to protect and restore this unique 1-mile segment of Lake Michigan shoreline. The restoration activities are the first step in the eventual transformation of the property into one of the largest publicly accessible lakefront preserves in Illinois. Restoration included…

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Lakefront Gateway Plaza

Lakefront Gateway Plaza The GRAEF team was recently awarded the design of the Downtown Lakefront Gateway Plaza after a national design competition in which 24 firms vied for the opportunity to design a signature public plaza at the Milwaukee lakefront. There are three central themes that underpin the GRAEF team’s design. Reconnect. Reconnection of Milwaukee’s urban…

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