RHA Landscape Architects-Planners

What RHA Landscape Architects-Planners does

RHA Landscape Architects-Planners, doing business as RHA Community Works, is a landscape architecture and planning firm headquartered in Riverside, California, with a regional footprint concentrated in Southern California. Founded in 1979 and currently employing 11-50 people, the firm delivers professional design and planning services across eight end-markets: parks and recreation (including skate parks), housing, educational institutions, institutional and civic facilities, commercial developments, historical site preservation, streetscapes, and utility-agency infrastructure. The firm is co-led by Managing Partners Doug Grove (President of RHA Landscape Architects Planners) and Scott Rice (President of Community Works Design Group), both of whom succeeded founders of their respective preceding firms prior to combining the practices.

The firm's service catalog pairs end-market-specific design work with cross-cutting advisory offerings: principal involvement, innovative design, education and training, sustainable design, and accessibility consulting. Underlying the portfolio is a self-described "thorough environmental design process" applied through project-based engagements with public agencies (parks, schools, municipalities), commercial developers, and utility companies. The technology footprint is lightweight — a Wix-hosted portfolio website and a YouTube channel showcasing completed and in-construction projects — with no disclosed proprietary software, API, SDK, or AI capabilities.

Revenue is generated through professional-services fees on a project basis, with pricing custom-quoted and not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven: direct client engagement via website/phone/in-person consultation within the Southern California region. The company is privately held, with no institutional investors, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no disclosed funding history. Marketing is concentrated in two channels — the portfolio website (top-of-funnel content) and YouTube (project showcase). No patents, awards, certifications, or regulatory actions are documented in the available source material.

Name

RHA Landscape Architects-Planners

Legal name

RHA Landscape Architects-Planners

Website

https://rhala.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

RHA Landscape Architects-Planners (doing business as RHA Community Works) is a Riverside, California-based landscape architecture and planning firm serving public agencies, educational institutions, commercial developers, and utility companies across Southern California since 1979.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Landscape Architecture and Planning Services

NAICS

Landscape Architectural Services (541320)

SIC

Construction - Special Trade Contractors (1700)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Regional & Land Use Planning (BPAHAKAE), Community Engagement & Participatory Planning (BPAHAKAO)

Keywords

• Landscape architecture services
• Urban planning design
• Parks and recreation design
• Streetscape planning
• Environmental design consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Riverside

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, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Design Services: Landscape architecture and planning services delivered through project-based engagements for public and private sector clients

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

RHA Community Works (operating as RHA Landscape Architects-Planners) is a landscape architecture and planning firm that designs and plans parks, housing developments, educational campuses, institutional facilities, commercial properties, historical sites, streetscapes, and utility agency infrastructure. The firm delivers project-based professional design services to public agencies, educational institutions, commercial developers, and utility companies, primarily in Southern California. Core service offerings include principal involvement, innovative design, education and training, sustainable design, and accessibility consulting.

Product overview

RHA Community Works is a landscape architecture and planning firm offering a unified suite of design services across multiple sectors. The firm's portfolio includes specialized service categories covering Parks, Housing, Educational, Institutional, Commercial, Historical Sites, Streetscapes, and Utility Agencies projects. These are complemented by core service offerings including Principal Involvement, Innovative Design, Education & Training, Sustainable Design, and Accessibility Consulting. The firm is led by Managing Partners Doug Grove (President of RHA Landscape Architects Planners) and Scott Rice (President of Community Works Design Group), combining multi-generational expertise in Southern California landscape architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Parks Landscape Design

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• MIG: Planning, landscape architecture, and community engagement firm with strong California municipal and park agency work. Directly comparable to RHA's parks, streetscapes, and community planning practice.
• SWA Group: Landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm with deep California roots and a multi-decade portfolio across parks, streetscapes, and master-planned communities. Highly comparable in service breadth and target client mix to RHA.
• LandDesign: Multi-disciplinary design firm offering landscape architecture, civil engineering, and planning with residential, commercial, and public-sector clients. Closely mirrors RHA's horizontal segmentation across housing, parks, and institutional work.
• Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA): Landscape architecture firm specializing in parks, urban design, and campus master planning. Comparable to RHA's parks and institutional portfolios with similar principal-involvement culture.
• OLIN: Landscape architecture and urban design studio serving parks, cultural institutions, and higher-education campuses. Comparable to RHA in its emphasis on principal-led design quality and public/institutional clientele.
• Sasaki: Integrated design practice spanning landscape architecture, planning, and urban design with strong higher-education and public-sector portfolios. Overlaps RHA in parks, housing, and campus work but at a meaningfully larger scale.
• James Corner Field Operations: Landscape architecture and urban design firm renowned for large-scale parks, waterfronts, and public realm projects. Comparable to RHA in project typologies though oriented toward larger, higher-profile commissions.

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm whose landscape architecture practice competes for the same California parks, transportation, and utility projects RHA serves, but as one offering within a much broader services portfolio.
• Stantec: Large multi-disciplinary design and engineering firm with an active landscape architecture and community development practice. Competes with RHA for municipal and institutional work across the Western US.

Emerging players

• WRT (now part of Arup): Planning and landscape architecture practice, now embedded within Arup, with a portfolio of parks, housing, and urban design work. Comparable in service mix to RHA, though now operating inside a much larger engineering parent.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCOH9F2igh33nyBw2W0rx_lg

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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