Midwestern Consulting

Earl F. Ophoff, R.L.A.
Sr. Associate / Sr. Project Manager

• Site analysis, planning, and design; landscape architectural services; and management of staff activities to provide these services to public and private clients.

Professional Qualifications

• Over 30 years experience in site planning and landscape architecture for a wide variety of institutional, commercial, residential, and recreation projects
• Over 25 years as project manager responsible for:
  • Direct client contact, handling projects from feasibility studies and conceptual planning through zoning, permitting, and construction
  • Preparing master plans, site concepts, grading, utility, and landscape plans; coordination of surveying services
  • Presentations at zoning and site planning meetings, and interacting with neighborhood groups

Experience

• Award winning urban waterfront and recreation design
• Institutional, mixed-use, office, commercial, and residential development site planning and design, including commercial corridor design
• Park master planning and design review
• Zoning ordinance studies and site plan reviews

Career History

• Midwestern Consulting since 1992
• Beckett and Raeder, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, 1979-1992
• BJR, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, 1974-1979

Education

• B.A. / Calvin College
• M.L.A. / University of Michigan

Registration

• Registered Landscape Architect / Michigan
• Qualified for CLARB National Certification

Affiliations

• American Society of Landscape Architects