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Designed to succeed LEADER PROFILES Master planners keep projects around the globe on right track the services of planners who specialize in residential and resort developments. They plan out the entire community plus the golf course and then seek out architects to design the details to fill in the —Rebecca Larsen map. | B uilding a large golf community or resort no longer means dropping down 18 holes and lining them with buildings. Meticulous planning precedes development, in addition to rigorous government reviews. All this requires |Perry Wood| president and senior partner, Wood + Partners, Hilton Head, S.C. Wood’s firm was founded in 1988. It now has three offices and specializes in planning in 13 states in the Southeast, as well as the Caribbean and the Bahamas. He had started out wanting to be an architect like his father. “But in the 11th grade, I took an aptitude test for architects and failed badly,” he said. “My parents sent me to a psychologist who determined I either should be a forester or a landscape architect, and I decided to be a landscape architect.” After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1974, he moved to Hilton Head and has been there ever since. Since founding his firm, he has seen many changes in golf community planning. “We’ve seen developers looking for alternatives beyond golf in order to add value enhancements to their communities,” he said. “They’re looking at nature-based experiences and multi-generational activities. They also want to design with sustainability in mind. That’s very important for baby boomers.” |Amie MacPhee| principal, Hart/Howerton, San Francisco MacPhee has worked in planning and landscape architecture more than 25 years, after graduating from the University of California-Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. “I had a strong art background and a background in plants and sciences and I was interested in doing something creative with plants,” she said. Among her first projects was the Gainey Ranch golf resort and residential community in Scottsdale. She has since planned mountain communities in Colorado and California and many coastal developments. She is well known for her ability to take 34 Golf Inc. August 2008 projects through the long, exhaustive entitlement process required for fragile, natural settings. Recently, she worked on the Santa Lucia Preserve, a 350-home golf community in Monterey County, Calif., that preserved 20,000 acres. “I have learned to be a very patient person during the years of planning large-scale resort projects,” MacPhee said. “The best part about it is when they finally come out of the ground and they actually turn out the way you envisioned. That is the amazing and fulfilling part.” http://www.woodandpartners.com http://www.harthowerton.com/practice/leadership.html

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Golf Inc - August 2008 Contents Editors Column Around the Industry: Big Green in Arizona Data Collectors Combine Forces GPSI Hires Chessler, Files Suit Americas Europe/Africa Asia/Australia Machrihanish Dunes Draws on the Past to Make History Again in Scotland Innovative Superintendent Finds Way to Keep the Nation's First Totally Organic Course Green Latest Clubhouse Designs Reflect Changing Lifestyles: It's All About Casual Camelback Conference Brochure More Operators Embracing Initiatives Aimed at Bringing Families Together on the Golf Course State of the Industry 2008 Muni Maddness? The Last Word

Golf Inc - August 2008

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