Equity Investment Helps Texas Firm Expand West

RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture opening in Phoenix and Oakland after investment by Atwell, LLC.

The 433-acre Grandscape development is planned to include three mixed-use villages on a pedestrian spine, with specialty shops, restaurants, hotels, theater, office, pocket parks, and a large entertainment amphitheater. The development is anchored by Nebraska Furniture Mart, one of the largest furniture retail stores in the state with a 560,000 SF showroom and 1.3 million SF distribution center. RVi is providing urban design and landscape architecture services for the entire grandscape development.
The 433-acre Grandscape development is planned to include three mixed-use villages on a pedestrian spine, with specialty shops, restaurants, hotels, theater, office, pocket parks, and a large entertainment amphitheater. The development is anchored by Nebraska Furniture Mart, one of the largest furniture retail stores in the state with a 560,000 SF showroom and 1.3 million SF distribution center. RVi is providing urban design and landscape architecture services for the entire grandscape development.
http://www.rviplanning.com

Consulting, engineering and construction services firm Atwell LLC has made an equity investment in nationally recognized RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture. This investment allows Atwell the opportunity to offer clients world-class planning and landscape architectural design services through collaboration with RVi. In addition, Atwell-owned landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm, Golden Associates, will become part of and be managed by RVi’s operations.

“We chose to invest in RVi because we respect what their leadership has built over the past three and a half decades. They are a very well-managed company, and together we are poised to achieve even greater success on a national scale,” Atwell President and CEO Brian R. Wenzel said.

RVi currently operates offices in Austin, Houston and Dallas, TX. This investment expands RVi’s offices from 3 to 5—with the addition of Phoenix, AZ, and Oakland, CA, and allows the firm to better serve clients in the western United States. RVi’s name and existing leadership team will remain in place, maintaining day-to-day operations as usual.

“We are excited to join forces with Atwell because they share our vision for smart, sustainable growth. This partnership will expand our capabilities, provide new professional growth opportunities for our employees, and allow us to better serve our existing clients in the western U.S. markets,” RVi President Chris Crawford said.

Atwell LLC is a national consulting, engineering and construction services firm with over 500 professionals in 16 offices across the country that deliver a broad range of strategic and creative solutions to clients in a variety of industries including real estate and land development, power and energy, oil and gas, automotive, industrial and mining. They provide comprehensive turnkey services including land and ROW support, planning, engineering, land surveying, environmental science, project management and construction.

RVi provides planning and landscape architecture services in a variety of market sectors, including master planned communities, commercial developments, parks and open space, academic campuses, and many others. The firm is credited with work on notable projects such as Mueller in Austin, TX, Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX, and multiple projects on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. The firm’s work in the Southwestern U.S. has included Anthem Phoenix, Aliante in North Las Vegas, NV, and Sun City Shadow Hills in the Inland Empire, CA.

Latest