MKSK
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| Founded 📆 | 1990 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Columbus, Ohio |
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| 🌐 Website | https://www.mkskstudios.com/ |
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MKSK is an American landscape architecture and urban design firm. The company is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. The firm is known for its work reshaping Central Ohio, particularly downtown Columbus.[1]
Attributes
MKSK is headquartered in the Brewery District of Columbus, Ohio, and has six regional offices. It has approximately 100 employees.[2]
The company's designs aim to create pedestrian-friendly designs, including reconnecting neighborhoods divided by highways.[2] When working with communities or organizations, MKSK works to understand challenges associated with the project while capitalizing on opportunities that have the potential to benefit the community. Some of the ways the company achieves this is through surveys and research to understand previous initiatives.[3]
The company has been instrumental in envisioning Columbus' and other cities urban planning initiatives to accommodate for growth and community-focused public spaces.[3][4] In 2000, MKSK created a masterplan for the Arena District and since then have master planned or designed a majority of projects that have transformed downtown Columbus. Their work has included Capitol Square, the Discovery District, Scioto Audubon Metro Park, and Quarry Trails Metro Park.[1]
History
MKSK was founded in 2011, from a merger between MSI Design and Kinzelman Kline Gossman (KKG), both of which were founded in 1990.[5] The merger happened after the firms won a commission together at the Ohio State University and decided they could be stronger together than as competitors.[6]
In 2019, the company reorganized its ownership from being held between ten partners into an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), making its employees the owners of the company.[5] CEO Brian Kinzelman described the change as driven by the desire to attract and retain employees through a sense of camaraderie.[7]
In 2022, Kinzelman was replaced as CEO by Eric Lucas, a principal at the firm.[8] Prior to becoming CEO, Lucas had started firm offices in Indianapolis and Lafayette, Indiana.[9]
Designs
Since about 2000, the firm or its predecessors have designed or created master plans for nearly every public space in downtown Columbus.[1]
Columbus
- Master plan for the Arena District,[1] including the new Crew Stadium[10]
- Grandview Yard master plan and First Avenue Park[11]
- The Scioto Mile[2][1]
- Dorrian Green park[12]
- Genoa Park
- McFerson Commons
- North Bank Park
- Scioto Audubon Metro Park and Grange Insurance Audubon Center
- Scioto Mile Promenade
- Scioto Peninsula plan[12]
- Twelve bridge caps over I-70 and I-71 surrounding Downtown Columbus[1]
- Entryways around the city's Main Library and Columbus Museum of Art[1]
- Livingston Park and green space at Nationwide Children's Hospital[1]
- Oval at the James Cancer Hospital[1]
- Capitol Square streetscape design[1]
- Discovery District streetscape design[1]
- Central quad at the Columbus College of Art & Design[1]
- Quarry Trails Metro Park[1]
- Urban plan for the 15+High development in the University District[1][13]
- City of Columbus municipal campus master plan
- Huntington Park
- Franklin County Courthouse and Government Center grounds
- Burnham Square park
Other cities
- Riverside Crossing Park in Dublin, Ohio[1]
- Rose Run Park in New Albany, Ohio[1]
- Rose Music Center in Dayton, Ohio
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 Ghose, Carrie (November 26, 2018). "Making a full necklace out of disconnected pearls: One landscape architecture firm's vision reshaping Columbus' public spaces". Columbus Business First. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Navera, Tristan (October 16, 2019). "This Columbus architecture firm is now owned by its employees". Columbus Business First. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Project aims to transform Buckeye Lake State Park". The Columbus Dispatch. April 2, 2021. Retrieved November 28, 2023 – via Columbus Metropolitan Library.
- ↑ "Communities share ideas for growth in western Licking County". The Columbus Dispatch. October 30, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2023 – via Columbus Metropolitan Library.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Weiker, Jim (October 16, 2019). "MKSK landscape architecture firm to become employee-owned". The Columbus Dispatch. Archived from the original on October 18, 2019. Retrieved November 28, 2023. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Meibers, Bonnie (August 29, 2022). "How longtime MKSK CEO Brian Kinzelman has seen Columbus, architecture and design change". Columbus Business First. Retrieved November 3, 2023.
- ↑ "Employees buy into landscape architecture firm". The Columbus Dispatch. October 17, 2019. Retrieved November 28, 2023 – via Columbus Metropolitan Library.
- ↑ Meibers, Bonnie (August 12, 2022). "MKSK's CEO is stepping down". Columbus Business First. Retrieved November 3, 2023.
- ↑ Meibers, Bonnie (September 13, 2022). "MKSK's new CEO plans to grow the firm with 'stretch projects,' regional offices". Columbus Business First. Retrieved November 3, 2023.
- ↑ "Columbus Crew unveils detailed renderings of Arena District soccer stadium". The Columbus Dispatch. September 24, 2019. Retrieved November 28, 2023 – via Columbus Metropolitan Library.
- ↑ MKSK (June 26, 2021). "Designing the Grandview Yard Master Plan and Implementation in Grandview Heights, Ohio". Columbus Underground (Press release). Retrieved November 28, 2023.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 MKSK (May 29, 2021). "Designing The Scioto Peninsula in Columbus, Ohio". Columbus Underground (Press release). Retrieved November 28, 2023.
- ↑ MKSK (June 12, 2021). "Designing the 15th and High Urban Framework Plan and Development in Columbus, Ohio". Columbus Underground (Press release). Retrieved November 28, 2023.
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