Elkus Manfredi Architects

What Elkus Manfredi Architects does

Elkus Manfredi Architects is a privately-held, full-service architecture and design firm founded in 1988 and headquartered at 25 Drydock Avenue in Boston. With 251-500 employees, the firm delivers four integrated service lines — architecture, master planning, urban design, and interior architecture — to enterprise clients across the United States, with active project presence in the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, and select West Coast markets. Revenue is generated on a project-based professional services fee model, with no publicly disclosed pricing or financial data; client acquisition occurs primarily through direct enterprise engagement, RFP capture, industry awards, and referrals. The firm is led by CEO and Founding Principal David P. Manfredi and operates under traditional principal-led ownership with no parent company, external institutional investors, or subsidiaries.

The firm's portfolio spans commercial office, residential towers, hospitality, healthcare and life sciences, sports venues, educational campuses, and large-scale mixed-use urban districts. Notable commissions include the master plan for Water Street Tampa (10+ million sf, the first WELL Pre-certified Community in the world), the Texas Medical Center Helix Park bioresearch campus (37 acres, 6.5 million sf), the MassMutual LEED Platinum headquarters on Fan Pier, the 14-acre Boston Landing health and wellness district for NB Development / New Balance, the historic restoration of Pittsburgh's Union Trust Building, and corporate workplaces for Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Citizens Bank, Publicis Groupe, and Goulston & Storrs. Differentiators include documented industry-first certifications (WELL Pre-certified Community, LEED v2009 CS Platinum with all IEQ credits, Passive House at scale), pioneering air-rights development expertise, and an unusually dense award portfolio across Chicago Athenaeum, Fast Company, IIDA, SBID, ASLA, and Architecture MasterPrize. Technology and platform architecture are conventional professional services tools (CAD, BIM, rendering); there is no proprietary AI/ML capability, no APIs, and no digital product surface.

Name

Elkus Manfredi Architects

Legal name

Elkus Manfredi Architects

Website

https://elkus-manfredi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Elkus Manfredi Architects is a Boston-based, privately-held architecture firm founded in 1988 delivering architecture, master planning, urban design, and interior architecture services to enterprise clients across real estate, corporate, healthcare, sports, hospitality, and education sectors throughout the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architecture and Design Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Interior Design Services (54141)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

Keywords

• Architecture design services
• Master planning services
• Interior architecture
• Urban design planning
• Sustainable building design

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Design Services: Full-service architecture, interior architecture, master planning, and urban design services billed on a project basis. Revenue is generated through professional service fees for design projects ranging from small interior fit-outs to large urban-scale master planning engagements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Elkus Manfredi Architects is a full-service design firm delivering architecture, interior architecture, master planning, urban design, space planning, and programming services for enterprise clients. Projects span commercial office buildings, residential towers, hospitality venues, healthcare and research facilities, educational institutions, sports and entertainment venues, and large-scale mixed-use neighborhoods, billed on a project-basis professional services engagement.

Product overview

Elkus Manfredi Architects is a full-service design firm providing architecture, master planning, urban design, and interior architecture services. The firm's portfolio includes highly acclaimed and award-winning projects spanning commercial office buildings, residential towers, hospitality venues, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, sports and recreation facilities, and large-scale mixed-use developments. The firm operates primarily on the East Coast of the United States with notable projects including Water Street Tampa (master plan of more than 10 million square feet), Boston Landing (14-acre health and wellness district), Union Trust Building (historic restoration), and TMC³ Collaborative Building (research campus). Their services are delivered as integrated offerings rather than discrete product modules, combining architectural design with interior architecture and urban planning capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture Services Full-service architectural design for commercial office buildings, residential towers, hospitality venues, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, sports facilities, and mixed-use projects delivered to enterprise clients across the United States.
• Master Planning Strategic planning services for large-scale urban developments, mixed-use neighborhoods, institutional campuses, and bioresearch parks, creating comprehensive frameworks that integrate research, hotel, residential, and commercial uses.
• Urban Design Design services focused on streetscapes, public spaces, parks, and neighborhood-scale planning that foster community connectivity, pedestrian experience, and integration with surrounding built environment.
• Interior Architecture Interior design services including space planning, programming, and comprehensive interior architecture for corporate workplaces, hospitality venues, residential environments, and research facilities.

Quantifiable outcome

• First WELL Pre-certified Community in the world - Water Street Tampa
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers21 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

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Direct peers

• Sasaki Associates: Boston-based planning, architecture, and urban design firm of comparable size with a strong master planning practice. Highly comparable to Elkus Manfredi given shared geography, integrated planning-plus-architecture model, and higher-education and mixed-use portfolio.
• CBT Architects: Boston-headquartered architecture and interior design firm of similar scale, with overlapping strengths in workplace, higher-education, and life-sciences sectors. Direct competitor for the same enterprise client base in the Northeast.
• Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF): Global architecture firm with major practice in commercial office towers, mixed-use developments, and urban master planning. Comparable for high-rise commercial and large-scale mixed-use work similar to Pier 4, Alcott, and Water Street Tampa.
• HOK: Global architecture, engineering, and planning firm with strong healthcare, sports, education, and workplace practices. Comparable in scale and in the breadth of services spanning master planning through interior architecture.
• NBBJ: Architecture and design firm with strong healthcare, corporate workplace, and sports practices. Directly comparable to Elkus Manfredi for hospital/research campus work (TMC³), professional sports facilities, and corporate headquarters design.
• HKS: Architecture firm with deep healthcare, sports (stadium/practice facility), and corporate workplace practices. Overlaps with Elkus Manfredi in sports facility design (similar to the Boston Bruins/Celtics work) and healthcare/research campuses.

Broad incumbents

• Gensler: Largest global architecture and design firm with broad practice spanning workplace, hospitality, healthcare, sports, and mixed-use. Larger and broader than Elkus Manfredi, but competes for many of the same Fortune 500 corporate and developer clients.
• Stantec Architecture: Global design and engineering firm with substantial architecture practice spanning commercial, education, healthcare, and urban development. Overlaps with Elkus Manfredi in master planning, higher-education, and mixed-use developments.

Emerging players

• Populous: Specialized architecture firm focused on sports venues and large-scale entertainment destinations. Direct comparable for the Boston Bruins/Celtics, Lambeau Field, and other sports facility work in the Elkus Manfredi portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/elkusmanfredi
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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/elkus-manfredi-architects

Compliance16 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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