Canin Associates

What Canin Associates does

Canin Associates was an Orlando, Florida-based urban design, planning, and landscape architecture firm founded in 1982 by Brian Canin. For over 40 years the firm served public and private sector clients with a people-centered approach to planning and designing urban spaces and new communities, with a practice emphasis on placemaking and connecting community visions to planning policy and practice. Its core services were urban design, planning, and landscape architecture, delivered as a single integrated professional services practice rather than as a productized or platform-based offering.

The firm operated as a small, principal-led boutique headquartered in Orlando, with leadership including founding principal Brian Canin (AIA, FAICP, CNUa) and principals Eliza Harris Juliano (CNUa) and Greg Witherspoon (AICP, PLA, ASLA). Pricing and contract structures were not publicly disclosed, consistent with a custom professional services consultancy model, and the firm did not maintain app, API, or productized technology offerings. Geographic focus prior to the acquisition was primarily Florida, with no documented international footprint.

In December 2022 Kimley-Horn announced the acquisition of Canin Associates, and the Canin team officially joined Kimley-Horn in January 2023. Following the transaction, Canin Associates ceased operating as an independent company and was retained as an acquired brand within Kimley-Horn's urbanism practice, with Brian Canin continuing to lead Florida projects and advise nationally on design direction. The acquisition provides the only observable strategic inflection point for the standalone firm.

Name

Canin Associates

Legal name

Canin Associates

Website

https://canin.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Canin Associates was an Orlando-based urban design, planning, and landscape architecture firm founded in 1982, serving public and private sector clients in Florida for over 40 years before being acquired by Kimley-Horn in January 2023.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Orlando

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Canin Associates was an urban design, planning, and landscape architecture firm that provided people-centered consulting services for the planning and design of urban spaces and new communities. The firm connected communities' visions to planning policy and practice, delivering innovative placemaking solutions for public and private sector clients primarily in Florida.

Product overview

Canin Associates is a service-based firm offering a unified suite of urban design, planning, and landscape architecture services. The firm operates as a single integrated practice rather than a platform with modular components, providing end-to-end placemaking solutions that connect community vision to planning policy and design execution. Key services include urban design, planning, and landscape architecture, all delivered under a people-centered approach to crafting urban spaces and new communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Urban Design Services People-centered approach to planning and design of urban spaces and new communities, crafting places that enrich quality of life and are ideal places to live and work, delivered to public and private sector clients.
• Planning Services Planning consulting that connects communities' visions to planning policy and practice, drawing on more than 40 years of serving public and private sector clients.
• Landscape Architecture Design services focused on delivering innovative community design solutions and placemaking for urban spaces and new communities.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Kimley-HorncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 December 2022Kimley-Horn, one of the nation's premier planning and design consulting firms, acquired Canin Associates in January 2023. The acquisition brought Canin's urban design, planning, and landscape architecture expertise to Kimley-Horn's nationwide operations. Canin Associates' founding principal Brian Canin continues to lead projects in Florida and advise on design direction nationally, while principals Eliza Harris Juliano and Greg Witherspoon joined Kimley-Horn's urbanism practice.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with extensive urban planning, landscape architecture, and design practices. Comparable in service breadth but vastly larger in scale and geographic reach.
• Stantec: Global design and engineering consultancy with broad landscape architecture and urban planning capabilities serving public and private clients. Overlaps with Canin but operates at much larger scale across many disciplines.
• Kimley-Horn: Parent company and direct comparator — Kimley-Horn is one of the nation's premier planning and design consulting firms, with nearly 7,000 employees across 100+ offices, offering transportation, planning, landscape architecture, and engineering services to public and private sector clients.

Direct peers

• OLIN: Multidisciplinary practice in landscape architecture, urban design, and planning, known for high-profile placemaking and civic projects. Comparable in scale, service mix, and design-led positioning.
• EDSA: Planning, landscape architecture, and urban design firm serving both public and private sector clients with a focus on community and resort-scale projects. Directly comparable service portfolio.
• WRT (Wallace Roberts & Todd): Urban design, planning, and landscape architecture firm with a longstanding focus on community-scale placemaking and civic projects. Directly comparable in service mix and design philosophy.
• LandDesign: Integrated land planning, landscape architecture, and urban design firm with comparable public/private client base and focus on community-scale placemaking, particularly in the southeastern U.S.
• Sasaki Associates: Integrated planning, urban design, and landscape architecture firm with a similar people-centered, place-making orientation and public/private sector client mix. Both firms deliver strategy-to-design services for new communities and urban spaces.
• James Corner Field Operations: Landscape urbanism and urban design practice specializing in large-scale public realm, waterfront, and community projects. Directly comparable in creative placemaking orientation and public sector client work.
• SWA Group: Long-standing landscape architecture, urban design, and planning studio with deep expertise in placemaking and waterfront/community design — directly comparable service portfolio and client base to Canin Associates.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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