Hospitality, Resorts and Entertainment Advance Planning Group
Who We Are We are professional consultants, thought leaders, and integrators. Our passionate consulting and design team is connected to one of the world’s largest A/E practices that is a global leader in providing engineering and technical services. We leverage a global perspective in applying locally relevant, appropriately scaled, innovative concepts in each region and for every client we serve. Our global team provides real value to our clients on projects in a range of markets of every scale and in every corner of the globe. We are built on a culture of collaboration and continue to attract top talent within our practice. We believe in working hard and having fun, as well as pushing our clients and ourselves in making a real difference in the world. Including our partners from around the globe, our network includes over 250 professionals of nearly every discipline in offices around the world. We are excited to share this window into our work and our team, and look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with you in the future.
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Monte Wilson, ASLA
Global Vice President, Built Environment Monte is a Global Vice President and Global Market Director for teh Built Environment at Jacobs. Prior to stepping into his current corporate leadership responsibilities, Monte was teh leader of the Jacobs Advance Planning Group. His 30 years of experience includes a range of planning, urban design and landscape architecture projects for corporate, institutional, educational, hospitality and municipal clients with a particular focus on urban redevelopment, multi-purposed infrastructure, city scale sustainability and resilience. Education Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Texas A&M University Professional Registrations Registered Landscape Architect: Georgia LEED Accredited Professional Professional Associations American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Past Executive Director, Urban Land Institute (ULI) Years of Experience Since 1989 *Work completed at previous firm
Lee Pollock, PLA
Principal, Director of Planning & Urban Design
With a proven record of thoughtful design and thorough implementation, Lee brings more than 26 years of experience in planning, urban design and landscape architecture working on projects including urban regeneration and infill, new cities/towns, transit-oriented developments, planned communities, corporate campuses, government centers, resorts, as well as recreation projects. In addition, Lee provides value creation expertise helping clients optimize their real estate assets. Education Master of Business Administration – Finance & Real Estate, Zicklin School of Business, 2007 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture,University of Georgia, 1994 Professional Registrations Registered Landscape Architect: Georgia Professional Associations Urban Land Institute (ULI) ULI- Center for Leadership 2015 Years of Experience Since 1994
Brett Wylie, ASLA
Director-Urban Design & Landscape Architecture Brett Wylie is a Director and leader of our urban design and landscape architecture practice withing the Advance Planning Group. Focused on elevating the practice’s design leadership, Brett has extensive experience in all aspects of urban design and landscape architecture for diverse public and private projects including urban regeneration and waterfront strategies, mixed-use developments, as well as new cities/ towns. Brett’s work has taken him to various parts of the world including the United States, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Caribbean. Education Bachelor of Landscape Architecture University of Georgia, 1992 Professional Registrations Registered Landscape Architect: GA, FL, NY, NC, SC, Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) Certified Professional Associations American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Years of Experience Since 1992
Matthew Friesen, ASLA, AICP, CNUA, LEED AP
Director - Placemaking, Urban Design & Landscape Architecture
Matt Friesen is a landscape architect, certified planner and urban designer whose interests and experience include creative sustainable approaches for all project types; including mixed-use, academic, commercial, and transportation infrastructure. He is committed to an enabling, participatory design process, bridging the various disciplines required to address today’s complex projects. Matt is passionate about delivering challenging projects and achieving his client’s goals through the creation of ecologically balanced, artistic environments. Education Bachelor of Landscape Architecture University of Georgia, 2007 Professional Registrations Registered Landscape Architect: Georgia Certified Planner: American Insitute of Certified Planners Professional Associations American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) American Planning Association (APA) Years of Experience Since 2007
What We Do The Advance Planning Group (APG) provides planning and advisory services for a range of public and private sector clients all around the globe. Guided by strategic thinking and an interactive process, we help clients achieve their goals and objectives and prepare for future change. Jacobs’ APG provides pre-design business, real estate and portfolio strategies, facility planning, master planning, urban design, landscape architecture, 3D visualization, design services, and strategic sustainability services. We are a collaborative group of architects, landscape architects, engineers, urban planners, interior designers, facility planners, real estate analysts, visual media designers, and business strategists. As thought leaders within our industries, we draw innovative real-world solutions from our global expertise and local knowledge. Our experience is comprehensive and diverse, with involvement in various aspects of planning – from the conceptual stages, to the technical, operational, and financial elements. We rely on a relationship-based approach and value strong partnerships within the team.
How We Think We believe in a holistic systems approach, asking tough questions, and working across disciplines to arrive at customized, comprehensive solutions. We also believe in listening to our clients and actively engaging with stakeholders. We utilize proven facilitation techniques to understand the issues, challenges, and trends affecting their organization, campus, real estate portfolio, or community. Strategic thinking requires both experience and a broad perspective. Solving today’s real estate, facilities, land use, and infrastructure challenges requires a team that can look beyond near-term concerns. Our team is recognized for thinking big, for tackling tough problems, for building consensus, and for creating clarity from complexity. As outlined in the following pages, APG offers strategic thinking around the creation of resilient places at every scale. From understanding challenges at the city-wide scale, to looking at opportunities to catalyze solutions to urban issues, our holistic approach provides enduring, realistic, and sustainable solutions.
THE BIG PICTURE. CityForm Our world is made up of systems – it is our goal to connect those systems and understand how they each contribute to the big picture. CityForm is the way we understand the intersection of various systems and leverage the knowledge base of various experts to create a strategy that is as comprehensive as it is specific. Rooted in integrated systems thinking, CityForm looks at complex urban challenges as an opportunity to bring together cross-disciplinary expertise and develop dynamic solutions.
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THE PEOPLE. Public Engagement A solution is only as strong as the people experiencing the outcome. Successful plans are grounded in meaningful community engagement with a broad group of stakeholders. Our goal is to understand local issues, incorporate community knowledge, and build consensus around a vision. This process is invested in as an opportunity to co-create innovative solutions with those people for whom it hits closest to home.
THE CATALYST. “Sprint Start” Programming Great ideas require momentum. Our experience with clients, authorities, and industries of all kinds has proven that interactive planning sessions work. Through Sprint Start Programming, critical issues and opportunities are identified early-on in projects and consensus is built around a path to exploring solutions and delivering results. Sprint Starts allow for the immediate understanding of shared goals, leading to solutions that can be implemented quickly and effectively.
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Creating a memorable experience is more than just designing a beautiful space.
It is capturing a special moment drawing you back, me and time again. We understand the complexities of hospitality design and are experts at weaving together context, functionality, sustainability and value with the guest experience. Our team of landscape architects, planners, architects and designers understand how to create a lasting impression that begins the moment a visitor arrives and unfolds as you move from property entrance to guest suite. Our integrated design capabilities range from site selection and master planning to landscape architecture and architecture. We craft each design solution specifically to assist clients to capitalize on their assets and most importantly, create a lasting memorable stay.
Red Sea Resort Vision Master Plan Services: Visioning + Master Planning
Description: The confidential project is a concept master plan submittal for a Special Economic Zone of 17,100 km2 in the Middle East. This massive project is similar in size to the land area of Kuwait. The client’s goal was o develop a strategy for developing the site to accommodate 1 million annual visitors by 2035. The Jacobs’ team was inspired by the site’s unprecedented amount of pristine natural resources and put together a plan and presentation inspired by the existing local environment. The more than 70,000 projected residents, 1 million annual visitors and all support assets will be accommodated within 0.06% of the total site area, so that a majority of the site can become the three national parks focused on wildlife, volcanoes and their lava flows, and heritage assets located on-site.
Location: Middle East
Awaji Integrated Resort Services: Visioning + Master Planning
Description: Jacobs provided conceptual design services for a new Integrated Resort (IR) in Japan. The project is intended to promote economic development and elevate the country’s prominence on the global stage. Proposed as a “widearea IR,” the project incorporates multiple waterfront and mountain sites throughout the region supporting both gaming and non-gaming components. The proposed building program totals approximately 450,000 square meters and includes hotels/resorts, MICE facilities, casinos, restaurants, retail, sports complexes, adventure and water parks, an aquarium, a cultural village, and an equestrian center. Major infrastructure improvements include new rail and ferry connections. Social impacts of this project include the creation of approximately 100,000 direct and 105,000 indirect/induced jobs in the local community and across the region.
Location: Japan
Kitakyushu Japan Integrated Resort Services: Visioning + Master Planning
Description: Jacobs provided conceptual design services for a new Integrated Resort (IR) in Japan. The project intent is to promote economic development and elevate the country’s prominence on the global stage. Proposed as a “widearea IR,” the project incorporates multiple waterfront sites supporting gaming and non-gaming program. The program totals +/-4.3m gross square meters and includes hotels/resorts, MICE facilities, casinos, mixed-use, sports complexes, adventure and water parks, an aquarium, a hospitality university, and a movie production center. Major infrastructure include new rail, highway, and ferry connections, in addition to a significant airport expansion. Location: Japan
Inspire Integrated Resort Services: Visioning + Master Planning
Description: The Integrated Resort is a planned mixed-use Entertainment and Resort destination near Seoul, Korea. The resort encompasses three hotels, casino, shopping and dining venues, performance arena, life science center and family theme park. The Master Plan incorporates four-season experiences and a wide range of national and international visitors. The Jacobs team assisted the Client and the broader team of planning specialists to establish a clear vision for the site’s development through an expedited planning process and architectural concepts for future phases of the project.
Location: Seoul, Korea
Qiddiya Resort and Theme Park Vision Plan Services: Visioning + Master Planning
Description: This project was focused on creating an entertainment city at the perimeter of a major middle eastern city. The master plan development accommodated 136,000 residents and all the required entertainment and hospitality assets within 41 square kilometers of the site. An additional 12.5 km2 were set aside for energy, food, and water services. The conceptual master plan echoes the edge formed by the cliffs located northeast of the proposed city while wadis create green “fingers” through the site and become a source to capture water.
Location: Middle East
The Venetian Resort Services: Architecture
Description: One of the most prominent structures on the Las Vegas Strip, the Venetian is the $1.2 billion first phase of a $2 billion luxury resort. The complex consists of a 37-story, cast-in-place concrete guest tower and a three-story low-rise steel structure that recreates the architecture and feeling of Venice. A quarter-mile Grand Canal, complete with gondolas and singing gondoliers, runs through the three story complex, which also contains retail shops and fine dining. The 116,000 SF casino is adorned with frescoes depicting Italian villas and palaces. The 3,036 tower guest suites are geared to the business traveler. The Venetian offers such recreational amenities as a 500,000 SF indoor shopping mall and 63,000 SF spa—making it a worldrenowned destination.
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Mountain West Services: Master Planning, Landscape Architecture, Architecture
Description: A master plan was designed for a five-star resort and conference center hotel and residential villas outside Beijing, China. Located at the foot of historic West Mountain, a well-known scenic site in northwest Beijing, the master plan links the villas and the hotel, including public recreation facilities by a public greenway and water courses. The planned 450-key hotel, several restaurants and feature spa, all centered around the site’s natural hot-springs, combine to ensure a memorable guest experience.
Location: Beijing, China
Miami Mixed-use Services: Visioning + Master Planning
Description: The vacant Miami Herald site along Biscayne Bay has plans to transform into a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) with luxury condominiums, hotels, offices, retail, and optional casino floor. The 15.22-acre site is located across the causeway from Miami Beach and adjacent to the Arts District and American Airlines Arena. The concept includes a new transit station accommodating the Metromover and Monorail, a relocated bus terminal, and a development program of 11.7 million square feet (SF). The proposed baseline scenario supports over 3,200 residential units; 926,000 SF of office; 270,000 SF of retail; over 900 hotel keys; and 7,700 parking spaces.
Location: Miami, Florida
Nuairiyah Beach-front Services: Master Planning
Description: Positioned along the Arabian Gulf coast in eastern Saudi Arabia, the new Beachfront Community envisions a variety of amenities for a growing population in this region of the Kingdom. A new marina, mixed-use retail services, mixed residential, two resort hotels + villas, equestrian center + villas and recreation center are planned along a fully connected corniche overlooking the Gulf. This development will create a new center for waterfront hospitality, improving the area’s attractiveness while diversifying employment opportunities in the Eastern Province.
Location: Nuairiyah, Saudi Arabia
Pole Urbain De Mazagan Services: Master Planning, Landscape Architecture, Architecture
Description: This new city will incorporate a population of 60,000 residents along with a corporate headquarters, a convention and exposition park, and company clubs/ resorts for OCP. Additionally, the new city will become a center for innovation, business incubators and research and development, an expanded university, and new tourism-focused retail and cultural facilities. With a vision of economically and environmentally sustainable development, this new city will incorporate a mix of uses targeted to a range of incomes and a diverse population. Economically responsive mixed-use development supported by a variety of housing types will create an engaging, memorable development that responds to a dynamic development market.
Location: Casablanca, Morocco
Alys Beach Services: Architecture + Landscape Architecture
Description: The project is a mixed-use beachfront development, in association with Porphyrios Associates (London). Scope of work includes technical design development, building code review, and underground parking garage design for the design development phase; and construction documents for the entire project--consisting of 16 mixed-use buildings, pedestrian plaza, and an underground parking garage--on the Gulf of Mexico.
Location: Alys Beach, Florida
Killington Resort Services: Visioning + Master Planning
Description: Taking cues from traditional New England towns, a master plan and architectural vision was developed for a new ski village at the base of the spectacular Killington resort in Vermont. The plan envisions a mixed-use ski village including a Grand Hotel and Lodge, retail, restaurants, residential, as well as skier services organized around a town green. This 200 acre development will serve as the center of activity for the region and fill a significant hospitality gap at this resort.
Location: Killington, Vermont
Work performed by Lee Pollock while at Hart Howerton
Aquatera Services: Visioning + Master Planning
Description: Along the scenic Highway 30A on Florida’s Panhandle, a master plan and architectural vision was created for a new mixed use resort residential community centered around a market square. This square is linked to a series of residential gardens and open spaces which promote pedestrian and bicycle circulation as well as a sense of community. The development envisions a mix of multi-family flats and townhomes, family villas, as well as resort commercial center.
Location: Panhandle, Florida
Work performed by Lee Pollock while at Hart Howerton
Punta Cana Club and Resort Services: Master Planning, Landscape Architecture
Description: Working with Edificio Grupo Punta Cana along the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, a master plan and development strategy was created for the 2,000 acre Corales golf community in coordination with Fazio Design. The development includes 120 golf and oceanfront villas, 10 oceanfront golf cottages, and a golf pro shop. In addition, the team developed alternatives for an exclusive beach club as well as the Playa Serena boutique hotel.
Location: Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Work performed by Lee Pollock while at Hart Howerton
Oman Resort Community Services: Master Planning
Description: Working with a private developer and the Oman Ministry of Tourism, this 400-hectare master plan envisions three new Omani villages encompassing four resort developments and mixed residential community. By taking cues from Oman’s rich cultural and design heritage, the master plan utilizes indigenous town planning principles as a basis for the community’s organization.
Location: Shinas, Oman
Work performed by Brett Wylie while at Cooper Carry
South Seas Resort Services: Master Planning, Landscape Architecture
Description: Located on Captiva Island on the Gulf of Mexico along Florida’s Southwest Coast, the South Seas Island Resort is a family-oriented vacation haven for beach and pool lovers alike. The existing resort was established over 30 years ago. The master plan focused on renovation and adaptation of new and existing resort components, including guest arrival experiences, food and beverage options, improved waterfront connectivity and improved resort back of house operations.
Location: Captiva, Florida
Work performed by Brett Wylie while at Cooper Carry
La Reserva Services: Master Planning, Landscape Architecture
Description: La Reserva is envisioned as a philanthropic resort development on the northern coats of Honduras on 600 acres 12 miles west of Trujillo. The team worked with the client to develop a plan and program for the resort to include a 50 slip marina and village center, 2 hotels, and villas ranging in site placement from the beachfront to the adjacent mountainside – all taking advantage of the diversity of the site. Critical attention was paid to the incredible topography and natural systems, resulting in a development plan that left 80% of the site undisturbed and held in preserve for the community and visitors.
Location: Guadalupe, Honduras
Work performed by Monte Wilson and Matthew Friesen while at HOK
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