Alex Stringfellow -- Principal

Born and raised in Central Florida, Alex Stringfellow has spent his lifetime watching Florida grow. After receiving his Master’s in Urban Planning from Rollin’s College, Alex has rewritten land development codes impacting over 25 square miles, entitled thousands of acres of master planned communities, and managed over $10M in public infrastructure projects. With his experience in urban design, entitlement, construction and brokerage, Alex has the ability to run land development projects from inception to completion or set the vision and code for an entire region. From small infill development to thousands of acres, there are no limits to his design and consulting capabilities. Local connections with cities and counties provide him with an open door to the movers and shakers in the region.

Simon Hardt -- Senior Planner & Designer

Simon Hardt is a graduate of Vassar College in New York, and received his Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Central Florida. He has over a decade of experience in the planning and design field, with work in both the private sector and in local governments. He has worked on projects throughout Florida, Georgia, and the Southeast. He is well-versed in many aspects of urban planning, including master planning new communities, infill development, urban design and streetscape interventions, landscape design, form-based codes, zoning reforms, and comprehensive planning. Simon believes that through creative and thoughtful planning and placemaking our neighborhoods, towns, and cities can be vibrant, functional, economically viable, and sustainable for generations to come.

Dr. Bruce Stephensen -- Advisor

A Floridian, Bruce Stephenson has worked as a public planner and consultant, and he is a professor of Environmental Studies at Rollins College. His research focuses on the intersection of sustainability and urban planning. He has written four books, over forty editorials, and published articles in a range of professional journals including the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of City Planning History, and Planning. His biography, John Nolen, Urban Planner and Landscape Architect, earned the 2016 JB Jackson Book Award. His forthcoming book, Stepping into the Good Life: How Portland, Oregon Inspired Orlando to be Florida’s Most Sustainable City, analyzes why investing in livability—the factors predicated on “active transportation” that make for a “complete neighborhood”—is profitable for developers and a community.

As a consultant, he contributed and appeared in the PBS film, Imagining a New Florida. He helped prepare the Park Central Park Master Plan and the Winter Springs Town Center Plan with Dover, Kohl & Partners. He leads the ecological restoration of the Genius Preserve, a 50-acre site in Winter Park, which received the 1000 Friends of Florida Community Betterment Award. The Principal Investigator for an EPA Sustainability Grant, he prepared, Sustainable Enterprise: Activating SunRail in Winter Park, a report that informed a series of projects (e.g Denning Drive, SunRail Bike Trail) to improve bicycle and pedestrian mobility. Stephenson directed the Audubon Eco-District Project, which produced the plans for Orlando’s first Eco-District. He serves on the Pearl District (Portland, OR) Planning & Transportation Committee, the Orlando Sustainability Task Force, and the Board of the Orlando Chapter of the Congress of the New Urbanism.