Studio
We’re a passionate team of design professionals that create environments where people live, work, learn, and play.
We’re a passionate team of design professionals that create environments where people live, work, learn, and play.
- Site Planners
- Landscape Architects
- Urban Designers
- Site Planners
- Landscape Architects
- Urban Design
Founded in 2010, Oxbow Design Collaborative is a practice intent on integrating the art of design with the art of building to create spaces that are engaging, sustainable, and suitable to contemporary living.
Founded in 2010, Oxbow Design Collaborative is a practice intent on integrating the art of design with the art of building to create spaces that are engaging, sustainable, and suitable to contemporary living.
Site
We endeavor to understand a site’s story first so that our design solution will be responsive to history and context while allowing a meaningful future potential to emerge.
Discover the Site History at Lane Field South
In 1925, a Navy athletic field was completed at a site near the waterfront in downtown San Diego. The field was later equipped with football-style bleachers while being used for multiple types of events, remaining that way until 1936, when Bill Lane relocated his Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League to San Diego.
Through a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, the former athletic field was repurposed into a ballpark, complete with a grandstand and baseball diamond.Lane Field hosted the Padres from 1936 to 1957 in the Pacific Coast League. Following that year, the Padres—by now under different ownership—moved to the brand-new Westgate Park in Mission Valley.
This ultimately marked the beginning of decades-long shift of professional baseball from downtown San Diego to Mission Valley.Toward the end of its run hosting the Padres, Lane Field and its wooden grandstand were beginning to deteriorate and, with Westgate Park making it obsolete for professional baseball, the ballpark was demolished. For many years, the site was used for surface parking and—while a plaque was installed there in 2003—there was not a strong reminder of the ballpark that had once stood at that location. Located in the North Embarcadero area of San Diego, today’s Lane Field is branded as “BRIC,” playing off the names of the intersecting streets at Broadway and Pacific Highway.
The first phase features Lane Field Park (Civitas, Inc.), which incorporates elements of the area’s baseball heritage complete with a home plate, pitcher’s mound, special lighting designating the three bases, and a special tribute to Padres legend Ted Williams; The Lane Field Redevelopment when completed will also include two high-rise hotels and a public park. Lane Field South is the last piece of that redevelopment and includes an 18-story hotel with a rooftop terrace and a linear park (Oxbow Design Collaborative) that borders the recently completed first phase of the North Embarcadero Visionary Plan.
The linear park along Broadway features a series of informal garden rooms oriented around a linear wall that connects the entire space together. There are a variety of seating options that allow people to interact with the urban Broadway streetscape or the retail spaces that occupy the hotel.
Zach Spedden
Ballparkdigest.com
Ball Parks that Live On: Lane Field
December 18, 2019
Process
We believe that a collaborative, cross-disciplinary design practice that is rigorous in exploration while being responsive to market conditions is necessary to effectively engage many of the contemporary issues we collectively face.
We are committed to an integrated systems approach to design and construction of the built environment that values aesthetics, ecology, and economics as well as social and cultural systems.
Explore our Design Process
Listen
Discuss
Define
Observe
Research
Analysis
Inform
Explore
Design
Visioning
Sketch
Refinement
Technical Development
Deliver
Solution
Approval
Implementation
Stewardship
Every place has a story to be told, made up of memories, experiences, and meaning. We aim to tell those stories and facilitate a relationship between citizens and the environment that is inspiring, healthy, and dynamic while fostering a sense of stewardship that can propel us toward a more sustainable future.
Explore our commitment to sustainable landscapes.
We see stewardship as not just managing, but nurturing our water resources, acknowledging their origins, and cherishing their role in our ecosystem. As we navigate the future, we’re committed to fostering a sustainable relationship with water, inspiring awareness, and promoting practices that ensure its availability for generations to come.
Site
We endeavor to understand a site’s story first so that our design solution will be responsive to history and context while allowing a meaningful future potential to emerge.
Discover the Site History at Lane Field South
In 1925, a Navy athletic field was completed at a site near the waterfront in downtown San Diego. The field was later equipped with football-style bleachers while being used for multiple types of events, remaining that way until 1936, when Bill Lane relocated his Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League to San Diego.
Through a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, the former athletic field was repurposed into a ballpark, complete with a grandstand and baseball diamond.Lane Field hosted the Padres from 1936 to 1957 in the Pacific Coast League. Following that year, the Padres—by now under different ownership—moved to the brand-new Westgate Park in Mission Valley.
This ultimately marked the beginning of decades-long shift of professional baseball from downtown San Diego to Mission Valley.Toward the end of its run hosting the Padres, Lane Field and its wooden grandstand were beginning to deteriorate and, with Westgate Park making it obsolete for professional baseball, the ballpark was demolished. For many years, the site was used for surface parking and—while a plaque was installed there in 2003—there was not a strong reminder of the ballpark that had once stood at that location. Located in the North Embarcadero area of San Diego, today’s Lane Field is branded as “BRIC,” playing off the names of the intersecting streets at Broadway and Pacific Highway.
The first phase features Lane Field Park (Civitas, Inc.), which incorporates elements of the area’s baseball heritage complete with a home plate, pitcher’s mound, special lighting designating the three bases, and a special tribute to Padres legend Ted Williams; The Lane Field Redevelopment when completed will also include two high-rise hotels and a public park. Lane Field South is the last piece of that redevelopment and includes an 18-story hotel with a rooftop terrace and a linear park (Oxbow Design Collaborative) that borders the recently completed first phase of the North Embarcadero Visionary Plan.
The linear park along Broadway features a series of informal garden rooms oriented around a linear wall that connects the entire space together. There are a variety of seating options that allow people to interact with the urban Broadway streetscape or the retail spaces that occupy the hotel.
Zach Spedden
Ballparkdigest.com
Ball Parks that Live On: Lane Field
December 18, 2019
Process
We believe that a collaborative, cross-disciplinary design practice that is rigorous in exploration while being responsive to market conditions is necessary to effectively engage many of the contemporary issues we collectively face.
We are committed to an integrated systems approach to design and construction of the built environment that values aesthetics, ecology, and economics as well as social and cultural systems.
Explore our Design Process
Listen
Discuss
Define
Observe
Research
Analysis
Inform
Explore
Design
Visioning
Sketch
Refinement
Technical Development
Deliver
Solution
Approval
Implementation
Stewardship
Every place has a story to be told, made up of memories, experiences, and meaning. We aim to tell those stories and facilitate a relationship between citizens and the environment that is inspiring, healthy, and dynamic while fostering a sense of stewardship that can propel us toward a more sustainable future.
Explore our commitment to sustainable landscapes.
We see stewardship as not just managing, but nurturing our water resources, acknowledging their origins, and cherishing their role in our ecosystem. As we navigate the future, we’re committed to fostering a sustainable relationship with water, inspiring awareness, and promoting practices that ensure its availability for generations to come.
We pursue an ongoing process of investigation, discovery and problem-solving driven by collaboration.
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We are committed to your project goals and have a history of delivering the best possible level of service by crafting a highly specialized team that will be custom-tailored to address your specific project needs. We work together on a collaborative basis to achieve unique results in a cost effective manner and you can count on us to provide the leadership and the comprehensive support that your project requires.
We actively pursue collaborative frameworks that inspire us to engage in new and different ways with our work. We believe that a clear vision, open communication, and a focus on the process are key to the collective success of each and every project.
In our designs, we aim to facilitate a relationship between citizen and environment that is healthy and dynamic while fostering a sense of stewardship that can propel us toward a more sustainable future.
Meet the team
David Gregory Jr.
Founding Principal, PLA, ASLA
In 2012, David Gregory founded Oxbow Design Collaborative. David is a Landscape Architect and Urban Designer with more than 20 years of cross disciplinary professional experience in planning, design, and construction. After receiving a Master’s Degree from the University of Colorado at Denver in both Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, he has worked serving both private and public sector clients on projects in a variety of ecological and cultural contexts.
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Licensed Landscape Architect:
Colorado (#1011), California (#6134) - ASLA Colorado Chapter President, 2014-15
- Member: American Planning Association
- Member: Urban Land Institute
- Member/Volunteer: Downtown Colorado Inc.
John Young
Principal
John is a landscape designer with more than eighteen years of experience working on a variety of public and private projects. He has designed and managed projects both locally and nationally and has successfully implemented some of the most challenging and complex projects.
John’s attention to detail is evident in his projects and has an ability to synthesize various details related to materials, grading, drainage, and planting into a cohesive aesthetic and functional landscape. He has extensive construction administration experience overseeing complicated projects and loves the challenge the construction process brings. No matter the design challenge, John demonstrates a real passion for creating spaces that improve the quality of life for all people. He is motivated by creating places that make people stop, think, and truly appreciate the built environment.
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University of Georgia College of Environment & Design, Athens, GA
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Magna Cum Laude - ASLA Colorado Merit Award (General Design Over $500k)
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ASLA Colorado Merit Award (General Design Over $500k)
Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center, Denver, CO - McGraw Hill Gold Hard Hat Awards (Landscape) Bradbury Ranch Park,Parker, CO
Aiden Healy
Landscape Designer
Aiden is a passionate, curious, and engaged landscape designer and is inspired by the opportunity to have an impact on the relationship between individuals, their communities, and the surrounding environment through innovative design.
She provides overall support for the Oxbow team and is responsible for the coordination of project documents with allied design disciplines, producing design drawings, and managing entitlement and construction submittals.
Aiden is able to apply her skills to a variety of urban contexts and has an ability to communicate clearly through visual language. Her experience includes designing for a variety of clients that involves parks, multi-family housing, planned neighborhoods, and playgrounds.
Aiden holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont.
Our Work
A Selection of our Featured Projects
Our work uses the rich and essential palette of form, texture, and light to reinforce a meaningful sense of place and purpose.
View Our WorkValdez Elementary School
Our work uses the rich and essential palette of form, texture, color, sent, sound and touch to reinforce a meaningful sense of place and purpose.
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