Simone Collins Landscape Architecture

What Simone Collins Landscape Architecture does

Simone Collins Landscape Architecture is a private professional services firm founded in 1990 by Pete Simone in Norristown, Pennsylvania, providing landscape architecture, master planning, ecological restoration, transportation design, heritage landscape preservation, and grant funding strategy to public-sector and institutional clients across the Northeast United States. The firm operates as an integrated practice with eight service lines (Recreation, Transportation, Planning, Ecological, Institutional, Heritage Landscapes, Residential, and Signage & Wayfinding) plus grant writing as an add-on capability, delivered by a multidisciplinary team of landscape architects, planners, and engineers using standard professional design tools. Revenue is generated through project-based professional services fees on engagements ranging from individual residential gardens to multi-thousand-acre master plans (Moores Station Quarry at 187 acres, Swatara State Park at over 3,500 acres, Mt. Penn Preserve at 4,000 acres), with marquee projects including a $24M state-funded Lincoln University campus renovation and a 60-mile Delaware Canal Vision Study.

The firm's client base is concentrated in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and New York, spanning county and municipal governments (Monroe County, Mercer County NJ, West Goshen Township, Towamencin Township, Tredyffrin Township, Pottstown Borough), state agencies (PA DCNR), educational institutions (Lincoln University, Arcadia University, DeSales University, CHOP), and conservation nonprofits (Natural Lands Preserves, Lacawac Sanctuary). Leadership comprises co-founder Pete Simone (President and Principal, RLA, FASLA), William Collins (Vice President and Principal, joined 1992), and Sarah Leeper (Principal, transitioning to principal shareholder), supported by planner Pankaj Jobanputra (AICP) and a team of landscape architects. The firm has accumulated over four dozen regional and national design awards since 1993, including ASLA PA/DE Honor and Merit Awards, Preservation Pennsylvania awards, and a USDA Forest Service national award.

Name

Simone Collins Landscape Architecture

Legal name

Simone Collins Landscape Architecture

Website

https://simonecollins.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Simone Collins Landscape Architecture is a private Pennsylvania-based firm founded in 1990 that provides landscape architecture, master planning, ecological restoration, and grant-writing services to government agencies, universities, and conservation nonprofits across the Northeast United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Norristown

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. Professional Services - Landscape Architecture: Traditional professional services firm providing landscape architecture, planning, and design services to government agencies, institutional clients, and private residential customers. Revenue generated through project-based consulting fees for master planning, design, construction documentation, grant writing, and public participation facilitation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Simone Collins is a professional landscape architecture and planning firm that provides integrated design services including master planning, ecological restoration, transportation and pedestrian infrastructure design, institutional campus planning, heritage landscape restoration, residential landscape design, and signage/wayfinding systems. Services are delivered as project-based consulting engagements spanning from visioning and public participation through construction documentation and implementation oversight for government, institutional, nonprofit, and private clients. The firm also offers grant writing and funding strategy services to help clients secure capital improvement funding.

Product overview

Simone Collins Landscape Architecture is a landscape architecture firm offering integrated design services across multiple practice areas. The firm operates as a single unified practice with distinct service lines including Recreation Design, Transportation Design, Planning, Ecological Design, Institutional Campus Design, Heritage Landscape Restoration, Residential Design, and Signage & Wayfinding Design. Each service area is led by principals with decades of experience, and projects often span multiple disciplines. The firm also provides grant writing and funding strategy as a supporting service to help clients secure implementation funding. The company has a portfolio of over 30 years of completed projects throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and beyond.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Recreation Design Services Planning and design of parks, trails, entertainment venues, sports facilities, skate plazas, amphitheaters, and recreational open spaces for public and private clients.
• Transportation Design Services Design of bridges, corridors, streetscapes, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, walkability improvements, and urban design projects.
• Planning Services Municipal comprehensive plans, borough revitalization plans, vision plans, corridor studies, and civic engagement processes for local governments.
• Ecological Design Services Ecological restoration, preserve master plans, greenway planning, dam removal, watershed restoration, and sustainable site design for environmentally sensitive areas.
• Institutional Campus Design Master planning and landscape design for universities, schools, healthcare campuses, and nonprofit institutional facilities.
• Heritage Landscape Restoration Cultural landscape restoration planning and historic preservation design for National Register properties, historic estates, and heritage sites.
• Residential Landscape Design Custom residential garden design including water features, specimen plantings, ecological infrastructure, and site-specific landscape solutions for private clients.
• Signage & Wayfinding Design Design of park identity signage, directional wayfinding systems, and interpretive signage graphics for institutional and public clients.
• Grant Writing & Funding Strategy Partnership funding strategy development and grant writing services to help clients secure county, state, federal, and private foundation grants for capital improvement projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• Secured over $20M in county, state, federal and private foundation grants for clients
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers25 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• OLIN: Philadelphia-based landscape architecture, urban design, and planning studio. The closest geographic and practice-area direct peer to Simone Collins, working on parks, campuses, and public realm projects for institutional and government clients.
• Andropogon Associates: Philadelphia-based ecological landscape architecture firm founded in 1975, specializing in ecological restoration, green stormwater, and naturalistic design. Highly comparable to SC's ecological design practice and share geography and client types in the Mid-Atlantic.
• WRT Design (Wallace Roberts & Todd): Philadelphia-based landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm with a decades-long portfolio of public sector, campus, and infrastructure projects. Comparable in practice mix and regional footprint to Simone Collins.
• James Corner Field Operations: New York-based landscape architecture and urban design firm renowned for large-scale public realm and ecological projects. Comparable as a high-profile landscape architecture practice competing for public-sector master plans and park designs in the Northeast.
• Sasaki Associates: Boston-based landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm. Direct peer in planning + landscape architecture integration, campus master planning, and large-scale vision studies for public and institutional clients.
• SWA Group: Internationally recognized landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm with offices across the U.S. Comparable in practice breadth — parks, campuses, ecological, and master planning — though larger and West Coast-anchored.
• LandDesign: Charlotte-based landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban design firm with offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. Comparable multi-disciplinary public-sector practice competing for campus, park, and master plan work in the same regions as Simone Collins.

Broad incumbents

• Hord Coplan Macht: Mid-Atlantic architecture, planning, and landscape architecture firm with offices in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Broader incumbent with landscape architecture as one of several design services, competing for institutional and public-sector campus and park work.
• Stantec: Global professional services firm with a substantial North American landscape architecture practice. Competes with Simone Collins on large public-sector infrastructure, parks, and campus master planning engagements, but as one of many services.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with a large design practice including landscape architecture, urban planning, and ecology. Competes for the largest public-sector master plans and infrastructure projects where SC participates as a subconsultant.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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