GRAND RAPIDS — Integrated Architecture, a 23-year-old sustainable design focused architecture / engineering / interior design firm is adding Landscape Design to its in-house project team with the hiring of Kerri Manley Bennett, Landscape Designer.
Bennett brings 20 years experience in the management, design and construction of landscape architectural projects. Her practice includes site master planning and design for education and athletic facilities, play area development, municipal and retail projects, downtown revitalization, health care and park and recreation design. Projects range from streetscape planning for Battle Creek’s Central City to master planning for Knapp’s Crossing, a large, upscale retail development in NE Grand Rapids, to the creation of healing gardens for Carson City Hospital. Bennett is a Certified Playground Safety Inspector and has designed and inspected numerous playgrounds for K-12 public schools.
A graduate of Michigan State University’s Landscape Architecture Program Bennett comes to Integrated from BETA design.

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