jim weLSH
SR. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Rutgers University ‘91
Mr. Welsh joined MKW in 2019 after spending 12+ years leading much of his prior firm’s landscape architecture work for NYC and NYS agencies. He also managed the landscape design program for major private urban development projects in China and the Middle East. Local projects ranged from planning to design and construction phase services. Projects varied in scale from less than ¼ acre plazas to 200-acre waterfront parks. Metropolitan area clients included New York City Parks, Department of Design and Construction, Economic Development Corporation, School Construction Authority, and Department of Transportation and New York State agencies such as SUNY, CUNY and Department of Transportation.
He has supervised the timely design, contract documentation, and construction administration for award winning projects such as the Intercontinental Hotel Courtyard at Times Square, Cleveland’s Perk Park, and the Rhone-Poulenc Rorer HQ and Research Campus in Montgomery County, PA.
Jim’s extensive work with city and state agencies in New York and New Jersey includes the Technology Centre of NJ for New Jersey EDC, Yankee Stadium Uplands Work for NYC Economic Development Authority and Putnam and Broadway/Bedford Plazas for NYC Department of Design and Construction.
Some of his NYC Parks projects include:
· Riverside Park South (Phases 5 & 6)
· Soundview Park
· Harris Ballfields
· Pals Oval
· Joseph Austin Ballfields
· Homecrest Playground
· Bensonhurst Park
· Mt. Hope Playground
· Webster Playground
· Cpl. Thompson Track and Field
· Col. Young Basketball and Handball Courts
· Mariners Arlington Marsh Master Plan
As project manager, he assembled teams of consultants, including architects, engineers and cost estimators as well as in-house landscape architects to produce construction documents, provided timely and responsive construction phase services and led community engagement activities.
He has been actively helping NYC address their stormwater runoff issues through the design of multiple green infrastructure projects with NYC Parks, NYC DEP and NYC EDC in Brooklyn and Queens. These projects create green infrastructure through the design of green streets, rain gardens, greenstrips, infiltration basins and bioswales.
Mr. Welsh has worked extensively with educational clients at the primary, secondary and higher education levels. Services include planning and studies to assess current and future conditions as well and the design for new campus improvements. Clients include municipal school districts such as South River, Mahwah, Elizabeth, Newark and the City of New York. College and University clients include Montclair State College, University at Albany, Georgia Tech, York College, Binghamton University, Medgar Evers College, SUNY Maritime and NJIT.
Private projects have included hotels, banks, clubs, sports and entertainment districts and corporate campuses and individual building sites in urban and suburban settings.