Jason Stangland Promoted to Lead SmithGroupJJR’s Waterfront Practice
SmithGroupJJR, a large integrated design firm, has named Jason Stangland to lead the firm’s internationally recognized Waterfront Practice. The group is comprised of engineers, ecologists, landscape architects and urban design experts specializing in design of complex river, lake and ocean environments in the U.S. and worldwide. Stangland succeeds Bill Brose, who served in the role since 2013. Brose will continue as a senior waterfront expert with a primary focus on advancing project design and construction.
Stangland joined SmithGroupJJR in 2005 and possesses nearly 20 years of experience in landscape architecture, urban design, planning, and waterfront development. For more than a decade, his career has focused on strategically positioning communities to rebuild and enhance their waterfronts as catalytic economic and social investments. A principal of the firm and recognized authority in this arena, his work throughout the Great Lakes, Mississippi River basin, and nation integrates ecological, economic, cultural, and recreational objectives that help transform waterfronts. Notable projects include a precedent-setting public/private approach to shoreline stabilization and waterfront enhancements for the City of Euclid, Ohio; working waterfront master planning for the Lummi Nation of Bellingham, Wash.; flood-responsive recreational and shoreline design for Chatfield Marina and State Park on a reservoir southwest of Denver, Colo.; and the award-winning conversion of an 1800-foot-long historic ore dock to a destination waterfront community park along the shorelines of Lake Superior in Ashland, Wis.