Aceto Kimball Landscape Architecture

What Aceto Kimball Landscape Architecture does

Aceto Kimball Landscape Architecture (AKLA) is a privately held, principal-led landscape architecture firm headquartered in Portland, Maine with a second office in Jackson, New Hampshire. The firm delivers end-to-end services spanning master planning, urban design, site design, and construction documentation across residential, housing, hospitality, institutional, parks, transportation, and wayfinding projects. Its client base includes municipal governments, housing authorities, private developers, non-profits, and high-end residential customers in New England with active expansion into Mountain West (Colorado, Wyoming) and Southeast (North Carolina) markets.

AKLA differentiates on a place-based ecological design philosophy, with particular depth in woonerf-style shared streets, brownfield redevelopment, multimodal transportation placemaking, and community engagement processes such as charrettes and public visioning. Notable project outcomes include the Portland Homeless Services Center (50,000 sf facility on a 7-acre brownfield site, 200+ beds), the Nightingale full-block redevelopment (170 affordable and market-rate apartments plus 70 family/senior affordable homes), and The Downs (500-acre mixed-use redevelopment of a former racetrack in Scarborough, ME). The firm maintains long-running collaborations with engineering and architecture partners including Gorrill Palmer Engineering, Kaplan Thompson Architects, Vellum Architecture + Design, and KA DesignWorks.

The business operates on a sales-led, project-based professional services model with revenue generated through direct commissions, competitive bidding on public sector work, and a strong referral pipeline from architects, developers, and municipal officials. Fees are scope-, complexity-, and scale-driven rather than under any disclosed standardized pricing model. AKLA is independently owned with no disclosed parent company, institutional investors, or venture backing, and does not maintain a public listing.

Name

Aceto Kimball Landscape Architecture

Legal name

Aceto Kimball Landscape Architecture

Website

https://acetokimball.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Aceto Kimball Landscape Architecture is a privately held, principal-led landscape architecture firm in Portland, Maine and Jackson, New Hampshire, delivering master planning, urban design, and site design services to municipalities, housing authorities, developers, and private clients across New England, the Mountain West, and the Southeast.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Landscape Architecture Services

NAICS

Landscape Architectural Services (54132), Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Architectural Services (541310)

SIC

Real Estate (6500)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Engagement & Participatory Planning (BPAHAKAO), Real Estate Development & Feasibility Advisory (Highest-and-Best-Use, Entitlements Support) (BPAJANAC)

Keywords

• Landscape architecture services
• Master planning design
• Urban design consulting
• Site planning services
• Ecological landscape design

Headquarters

HQ city

Portland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Landscape Architecture Services: Professional services revenue generated through landscape architecture consulting, master planning, site design, and construction documentation services for residential, commercial, municipal, and institutional clients. Services are project-based with fees determined by scope, complexity, and project scale.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Aceto Kimball Landscape Architecture (AKLA) is a professional landscape architecture firm providing master planning, site design, urban design, and construction documentation services across residential, housing, commercial/hospitality, parks, transportation, and institutional project types. The firm delivers end-to-end landscape architecture services including community engagement, charrettes, regulatory approval support, and place-based ecological design for clients in New England and Mountain West regions.

Product overview

Aceto Kimball Landscape Architecture (AKLA) is a landscape architecture firm offering comprehensive design services including master planning, site design, urban design, and landscape architectural services across diverse project types including residential, housing, campus and hospitality, parks and open space, transportation, wayfinding, and planning projects. The company operates from offices in Portland, Maine and Jackson, New Hampshire, serving clients throughout New England and beyond.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Landscape Architecture Design Services Comprehensive end-to-end landscape architecture services including master planning, site design, urban design, construction documentation, and community engagement for residential, commercial, municipal, and institutional clients.
• Master Planning Large-scale master planning services for mixed-use redevelopments, residential communities, parks, and downtown revitalization including community engagement and regulatory approval support.
• Urban Design and Streetscape Urban design services including woonerf-style shared streets, multimodal transportation corridors, downtown revitalization, village centers, and streetscape improvements for municipalities.
• Residential Landscape Design Custom residential landscape design for private homeowners featuring integration of architecture with natural surroundings, native species, hardscapes, lighting, and outdoor living spaces.
• Housing Development Landscape Design Landscape design for affordable housing developments, mixed-income communities, multi-unit residential buildings, and cooperative housing developments including plazas, community gardens, and gathering spaces.
• Parks and Open Space Planning Master planning and design services for municipal parks, recreational facilities, trails systems, and public open spaces including community engagement processes.
• Transportation and Village Partnership Design Multimodal transportation corridor design and Village Partnership Initiative (VPI) projects for state departments of transportation, featuring graphical renderings that communicate complex infrastructure investments to the public.
• Campus and Institutional Design Landscape and urban design framework services for educational institutions, hospitals, and institutional campus developments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Portland Homeless Services Center: 50,000sf facility on 7-acre brownfield site with capacity for 200+ beds
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Gorrill Palmer EngineeringcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing collaboration with Gorrill Palmer Engineering on multiple Maine Department of Transportation Village Partnership Initiative (VPI) projects including Dover-Foxcroft, Bowdoinham, and other Maine community transportation and streetscape improvements.
• City of Sanford, MainecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing partnership with the City of Sanford on multiple projects including downtown connector study, roundabout design, and downtown revitalization planning.
• Vellum Architecture + DesigncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on multiple residential projects including the Nodiff residence in Chapel Hill, NC, featuring integrated architecture and landscape design.
• KA DesignWorksminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on projects including Bar J Ranch master planning in Jackson, WY and OROS condo development in Crested Butte, CO.
• Northstar PlanningminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Northstar Planning on the Villages Master Plan for Little Falls/South Windham, Maine.
• Maine Department of TransportationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partner on Village Partnership Initiative (VPI) program, working on multimodal transportation and placemaking projects throughout Maine communities.
• Kaplan Thompson ArchitectscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing collaboration on housing and mixed-use projects including Head of Falls Village in Waterville, ME.
• New England Outdoor Center (NEOC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term partner on multiple projects including NEOC Activity Center and Hammond Ridge development, a growing outdoor recreation hub on 2,000+ acres in northern Maine.
• Sunday River ResortminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWorked with Sunday River Resort on Barker Lodge redesign and ski house projects at the resort.
• BILD ArchitectsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSelected alongside BILD Architects for Raise-Op Housing cooperative ownership development projects in Lewiston, ME.
• Boyne ResortsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Boyne Resorts on Barker Lodge redesign at Sunday River Resort.
• Glenn Rappaport / Black Shack ArchitectsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with Glenn Rappaport of Black Shack Architects on Wanderer's Way modular housing proposal in Winter Park, CO.
• Honomobo DesignminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with Honomobo Design on Wanderer's Way modular housing project in Winter Park, CO.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Stoss Landscape Urbanism: Stoss is a Boston-based landscape architecture and urban design firm with strong public-sector and waterfront regeneration work. Geographic and philosophical overlap with AKLA make it a particularly close peer for Northeast municipal and brownfield work.
• Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects: Hoerr Schaudt is a Chicago-based landscape architecture firm with comparable work across residential, hospitality, urban design, and campus projects. Similar in scale and project typology mix to AKLA.
• Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA): MVVA is a Brooklyn-based landscape architecture firm known for large-scale public parks and master plans (e.g., Brooklyn Bridge Park). It competes with AKLA on major public-realm commissions and shares the place-based, ecologically-sensitive design philosophy.
• LandDesign: LandDesign is a multi-office landscape architecture, civil engineering, and planning firm with strong residential, mixed-use, and master-planned community practices. Comparable project mix to AKLA across housing, community, and commercial developments.
• Design Workshop: Design Workshop is a landscape architecture firm with offices across the Mountain West and US, specializing in parks, open space, and community planning. It directly competes with AKLA in the Mountain West resort-region projects (Aspen, Crested Butte).
• OLIN Studios: OLIN is a Philadelphia-based landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm with comparable focus on ecological design, urban regeneration, and cultural projects. It directly competes with AKLA on public realm and master-planning engagements in the Northeast.
• Reed Hilderbrand: Reed Hilderbrand is a Cambridge, MA landscape architecture firm with comparable focus on campus, residential, and culturally-sensitive site design. It is a strong peer for the institutional and high-end residential work AKLA performs.

Broad incumbents

• Sasaki Associates: Sasaki is a multi-disciplinary design firm with strong landscape architecture, planning, and urban design practices. It pursues the same higher-education, municipal, and master-planning work that AKLA targets, but at significantly larger scale and with broader in-house capabilities.
• SWA Group: SWA is a large, established landscape architecture, planning, and urban design firm with offices across the US and Asia. It competes with AKLA on municipal and master-planning RFPs at significantly larger scale, making it the most relevant broad incumbent peer for AKLA's public-sector and large-scale work.

Regional players

• SE Group: SE Group is a planning and design firm with deep roots in ski resort and mountain community master planning (Aspen, Vail, Sunday River). Highly relevant as a peer for AKLA's New England Outdoor Center and Mountain West resort portfolio, though it leans more on planning than landscape architecture.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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