What REES Associates does

REES Associates is an employee-owned (ESOP) architecture, planning, and interior design firm founded in 1975 by Frank Rees, Jr. in Oklahoma City. The firm delivers professional design services — full architecture, interior design, and strategic planning — across four primary verticals: healthcare, corporate/commercial, senior living, and multifamily, with additional government, civic, and nonprofit work. Specialized technical capabilities include complex healthcare facility design such as surgical units, NICUs, women's health centers, cancer care environments, pediatric rehabilitation, and behavioral health facilities, alongside corporate headquarters, workplace interiors, multifamily residential developments, and federal/municipal buildings. A LEED Silver certification on a 440,000 sq ft Fortune 500 technology headquarters reflects competence in sustainable large-scale workplace design.

The firm operates from three offices — Oklahoma City (headquarters at REES Plaza on Lake Hefner), Dallas, and The Woodlands in the Houston area (opened 2022) — serving clients across Oklahoma, Texas, and select work in Mexico and Alabama. Revenue is generated through project-based professional services fees that vary with scope, complexity, and scale; engagements are acquired via direct consultative sales, repeat enterprise clients, referrals, and industry reputation rather than productized channels. The client roster spans healthcare systems (Mercy, Stillwater Medical, Chickasas Nation Medical Center, Bethany Children's Health Center), government (FBI, City of Edmond), large corporations (Fortune 500 technology firm, Goosehead Insurance, Cox Communications, N5B Capital), real estate developers (Legacy Partners), and nonprofits (ReMerge, Sunbeam Family Services, Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits).

Governance is provided by an external board and an ESOP structure in which full-time employees begin receiving contributions after one year (100% vesting after five years), with Senior Associate-level employees becoming direct shareholders with voting rights and equity returns. CEO Allan Parr led a generational transition away from the founder, and the firm marked its 50th anniversary in 2025. REES maintains active industry presence through IIDA, AIA Central Oklahoma, ENR, and Oklahoma Interior Design Coalition awards, as well as community involvement including the Allied Arts Campaign for the Arts, United Way, and youth architecture education programs.

Name

REES Associates

Legal name

REES Associates, Inc.

Website

https://rees.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1975

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

REES Associates is an employee-owned architecture, planning, and interior design firm founded in 1975, delivering healthcare, corporate/commercial, senior living, multifamily, civic, and nonprofit facility design from Oklahoma City, Dallas, and Houston.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Oklahoma City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Design Services: Revenue is generated through architecture, planning, and interior design professional services. Projects are typically custom engagements with fees based on project scope, complexity, and scale. The firm works on a project-by-project basis for government, healthcare, corporate, and nonprofit clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

REES Associates provides professional architecture, planning, and interior design services for healthcare, corporate/commercial, senior living, multifamily, government, and nonprofit clients across Oklahoma, Texas, and select markets in Mexico and Alabama. The firm delivers full-scope design projects ranging from hospitals and surgical centers to corporate headquarters, senior living campuses, multifamily developments, and civic facilities on a custom engagement basis.

Product overview

REES Associates is an employee-owned architecture, planning, and interior design firm offering comprehensive design services across four primary markets: Healthcare, Corporate/Commercial, Senior Living, and Multifamily/Government. The firm provides end-to-end design solutions including architecture, interior design, and strategic planning services. REES does not offer software products or technology platforms; their offerings are professional design services delivered through collaborative client engagements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture Services Full-service architecture design for healthcare, corporate/commercial, senior living, multifamily, and government markets, including hospitals, headquarters, campuses, and civic facilities.
• Interior Design Interior design services including space planning, finishes, furniture selection, and branded environments for commercial and healthcare facilities.
• Planning Services Strategic planning and programming services for facility expansions, campus developments, and new construction projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• 50 years in business with established market presence
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Legacy PartnersnotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerREES partnered with Legacy Partners to design 880 Lyn, a five-story lakeside multifamily development in Irving, Texas. Legacy Partners is a real estate development company with projects across California, Pacific Northwest, Colorado, Texas, and Arizona.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Gensler: Largest global architecture and design firm; competes with REES in corporate headquarters, workplace strategy, and senior living and offers broader research, consulting, and brand services beyond REES' project scope.
• HOK: Global architecture, planning, and interiors practice with leading healthcare and workplace design; broader geographic reach and larger bench than REES but competes for the same healthcare systems and corporate headquarters work.
• Stantec: Global design and consulting firm with an architecture practice covering healthcare, senior living, and community development; broader services portfolio than REES but overlaps directly in healthcare and senior-living facility design.

Direct peers

• Page (formerly Page Southerland Page): Architecture, engineering, and interiors firm with offices across Texas and a strong healthcare and civic portfolio; competes head-to-head with REES in Oklahoma and Texas hospital, civic, and higher-ed work.
• SmithGroup: Integrated architecture, engineering, and planning firm with nationally ranked healthcare and workplace practices; comparable to REES in healthcare and corporate interiors depth and integrated design delivery model.
• HDR Architecture: Architecture practice inside HDR with one of the largest healthcare design portfolios globally; directly comparable to REES' healthcare specialization and complements with engineering, planning, and program management services.
• HKS Architects: Dallas-headquartered architecture, interiors, and planning firm with deep healthcare and corporate practices; directly comparable to REES in healthcare design depth, Texas base, and integrated architecture/interiors delivery.
• Perkins&Will: National architecture firm with one of the most recognized healthcare design practices in North America; competes with REES for hospital systems and academic medical center work and offers comparable interiors and planning capabilities.
• Corgan: Dallas-based architecture and interiors firm with significant corporate headquarters and data center practices plus healthcare exposure; similar regional Texas base and project scale as REES, with comparable Fortune 500 client wins.
• DLR Group: Employee-owned architecture/engineering firm with healthcare, K-12, and civic practices; comparable employee-ownership structure to REES' ESOP and similar integrated design approach for healthcare and civic clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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