Cooper Johnson Smith Peterson Architects

Name

Cooper Johnson Smith Peterson Architects

Legal name

Cooper Johnson Smith Peterson Architects, Inc.

Website

https://cjsarch.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (236220), Landscape Architectural Services (54132)

SIC

General Bldg Contractors - Nonresidential Bldgs (1540), General Bldg Contractors - Residential Bldgs (1520)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Residential Luxury / High-End Home Construction (IMAFABAJ), Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

Keywords

• Custom residential architecture
• Traditional classical design
• Urban design planning
• Commercial civic buildings
• Hospitality resort architecture

Headquarters

HQ city

Tampa

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

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Design Services: Professional architectural design services for various building types including custom residential, commercial, civic, religious, educational, and hospitality projects. Revenue generated through design fees, project management, and related professional services.
2. Urban Design and Town Planning: Comprehensive urban design and master planning services for town planning projects, community developments, and mixed-use developments.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cooper Johnson Smith Peterson Architects is a Tampa-based architecture and urban design firm that provides professional design services across six practice areas: custom residential homes, multi-use/multifamily developments, churches and schools, civic and commercial buildings, hospitality facilities, and town planning/urban design. The firm applies traditional and classical design principles integrated with contemporary building technologies to deliver projects for affluent homeowners, developers, institutions, and municipalities throughout the Southeastern United States, Bahamas, and the Caribbean.

Product overview

Cooper Johnson Smith Peterson Architects is an award-winning architecture and urban design firm founded in 1986, offering a comprehensive portfolio of design services organized into six core practice areas: Homes (custom residential), Multi-Use/Multifamily, Churches/Schools, Civic/Commercial, Hospitality, and Town Planning. The firm specializes in traditional and classical design principles applied across all building types, with particular expertise in urbanism and the synthesis between architecture and town planning. Their services are delivered through direct client engagement rather than software platforms, with design coordination supported by established relationships with select engineering and design consultants.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Homes (Custom Residential) Custom residential architecture services for affluent individual homeowners, including high-end custom homes, residential compounds, and beach houses in resort communities. Projects span the United States, Bahamas, and the Caribbean.
• Multi-Use/Multifamily Architecture services for multi-family residential developments and mixed-use projects combining residential and commercial spaces, including neighborhood-scale design.
• Churches/Schools Religious and educational facility architecture including churches, chapels, retreat centers, schools, and campus master planning for faith-based and academic institutions.
• Civic/Commercial Commercial and civic building architecture including office buildings, retail spaces, community centers, public facilities, and historic preservation/adaptive reuse projects.
• Hospitality Hospitality architecture services including hotels, resorts, country clubs, yacht clubs, and recreational facilities for resort and hospitality developers and operators.
• Town Planning Urban design and master planning services for new towns, neighborhoods, mixed-use developments, and town center design, including zoning planning and large-scale community master plans.

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Select Group of Engineering and Design ConsultantscoreOthersThe firm has established strong relationships with a select group of engineering and design consultants which has allowed them to simplify the design coordination process and provide clients with the highest level of service. These are not named partners but rather an established network of professional collaborators.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Alfonso Architects: A Tampa-based traditional-architecture firm that competes head-to-head with CJSP in the Tampa market across custom residential, religious, and civic project types.
• Robert A.M. Stern Architects: A leading New York-based practice recognized for classical and vernacular architectural design across residential, institutional, hospitality, and master-planning work — directly comparable to CJSP in style philosophy, project types, and blue-chip client mix.
• Peter Pennoyer Architects: A classical-architecture firm specializing in traditional residential, institutional, and adaptive-reuse work with a reputation-driven, referral-based business model highly analogous to CJSP.
• Ken Fulk Inc. A luxury design firm working across custom residential, hospitality, and event design for ultra-high-net-worth and hospitality clients — competes with CJSP in the boutique luxury/hospitality design niche.
• D. Stanley Dixon Architect: A Southeastern classical and traditional architecture practice with deep roots in custom residential and small institutional work, sharing CJSP's traditional-design orientation and regional U.S. presence.
• David M. Schwarz Architects: A traditional/eclectic institutional and civic architecture firm known for cultural, religious, and resort projects — comparable to CJSP in its fusion of classical language with modern program types.
• Hart Howerton: An integrated architecture, planning, and landscape firm with strong urban-design and town-planning practice, including resort and residential master plans such as Sea Ranch — closely aligned with CJSP's architecture-plus-town-planning model.

Broad incumbents

• WATG: A global hospitality and resort architecture incumbent with strong Caribbean and luxury-resort practice — broader incumbent that competes for the same resort and luxury-residential commissions as CJSP.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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M&A

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