Project Team
Montgomery County Department of General Services
Office of Planning and Development
Ronnie Warner, Chief
opd.dgs@montgomerycountymd.gov
Consultant Team for Community Engagement and Land Planning
Design Collective is a multi-disciplinary design firm specializing in the disciplines of architecture, urban design and planning, landscape architecture, interiors, and environmental graphics.
Our planning and urban design practice is focused on downtown districts, station area plans and TOD, urban and neighborhood revitalization, aging commercial corridors, and urban mixed-use developments. Working with both public sector agencies and private developers, we aspire to create memorable and inviting places through a meaningful and collaborative design approach.
Our team’s planners and urban designers are adept at developing creative, sustainability-focused, and forward-thinking planning and design solutions that are equally mindful of market, economic, developer, DEI, and community and stakeholder considerations.
With a principled approach and creative, yet implementable design solutions, many of our planning projects have won prestigious awards from ULI, CNU, AIA, APA, and numerous other national and international organizations.
PRR brings over 40 years of experience providing integrated communications solutions that help people make informed decisions and build stronger, more inclusive communities. We are experts in the transportation sector where we offer community engagement, facilitation, social marketing, research, human-centered design, and video services anchored in our philosophy to Make It Meaningful. That means we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. PRR brings relevant expertise in developing meaningful and inclusive public engagement plans and is skilled in facilitating the engagement process through planning, implementation, and reporting. This year we celebrate 41 years of service with national experts located in bi-coastal offices in Baltimore, Washington D.C., Norfolk, and Seattle. PRR is a certified MBE/DBE/SBE through the Maryland Department of Transportation (Cert # 16-399).
VHB’s passionate professionals include engineers, scientists, planners,
and designers who partner with public and private clients in the transportation,
real estate, institutional, and energy industries, as well as federal, state, and local governments.
Together, we work to improve mobility, enhance communities and economic vitality, and balance development and infrastructure needs with environmental stewardship.
We’re a team—1,900 strong—eager to deliver value by embracing our clients’ goals, anticipating challenges, building lasting partnerships, and always providing an exceptional experience.
We’re passionate about making meaningful contributions to the world through the work we do; and we are proud, yet humbled, to have been doing this for over 40 years.
VHB’s innovative thinking leads to creative, practical solutions for our clients.
We bring collective knowledge, technical excellence, and a wide network of trusted relationships across our footprint to deliver value. When you have a team with such broad and deep experience, it’s only natural to look at projects from every angle and ask the types of questions that lead to better solutions. That’s what we do at VHB—we help our clients make the right decisions to move their projects forward.
Our team has an open-minded approach to projects, and we are committed to listening and truly understanding our clients’ needs—we see the whole picture, not just one piece. We integrate the right people and resources from our five core service areas to help clients initiate and complete intricate, challenging, and significant projects.