After our Chili Cookoff was such a hit in March, we needed another contest! Our first ever Taco Contest yesterday brought great eats and even better company. Congratulations to Bill LaRue for his victory with his pork carnitas con chiles verde. Bravo!

#WorksiteWednesday AM Landshaper crews are busy moving dirt at the East Valley High School site. A joint project between Spokane County, the City of Spokane Valley, and the East Valley School District will revamp the area between East Valley middle and high schools, including new playfields and utility lines. A traffic signal will be added at Sullivan and Wellesley, as well as new softball and baseball fields, and a practice football facility for East Valley’s secondary schools. Bernardo Wills provided full landscape architecture and sports complex planning for this project.

Congratulations to our own Gretchen Renz, CDFA, Managing Director of Operations for her installment on the SDA Executive Committee as National Secretary.

Check out the final photos of Truman Orthodontics in Las Vegas, Nevada! Bernardo Wills provided full interior design services for their new office.

Check out more coverage of the Goodwill facility groundbreaking in West Spokane on Tuesday. This article details Goodwill’s mission to be a zero-waste facility, “Over the last four years, Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest has kept more than 94 million pounds of materials out of local landfills through its resale, recycling, and salvage operations. That is enough material to fill 6,300 garbage trucks.”

We are honored to announce that we received a Merit Award for our design of the Ice Age Floods Playground in Riverfront Park by the Idaho/Montana Chapter of ASLA. The Merit Award recognizes superior professional accomplishments in landscape architecture. The project was judged on the design, functionalism, relationship to context, environmental responsibility, overall relevance to the built environment, and more. We knew this project was special, and we are proud of our staff that made this project a reality, cheers!
In last week’s Journal of Business, Bernardo Wills announced some exciting changes to our corporate structure, governance, and leadership. We have many announcements to make this summer.

We are hiring! We are looking for a collaborative, creative commercial architect to join our team of difference makers.

We are excited to hear that the proposed zipline at the Monroe Street Bridge might become a reality in the future. We aided the City in developing some graphics for the proposed idea. This fly-through shows the platform connecting with “A Place of Truths Plaza” on Spokane Falls Boulevard. Check it out here!

There is lots of activity going on at East Valley High School as construction begins on a new road, traffic signal, several new softball and baseball fields, and a practice football facility. Bernardo Wills provided landscape architecture services for the master plan and design of the new East Valley High School athletic complex and pedestrian crossing.

We gathered yesterday to celebrate our own Bob Wills at yesterday’s Spokane Journal of Business Icon Awards Ceremony.

We were proud to host AIA Spokane’s Project Management Panel last week to finish a fantastic Architecture Month. Our own Licia LeGrant, AIA, Associate here at Bernardo Wills, joined the panel to discuss her project management strategies. Licia co-led a project management standards committee last year that developed our project management workbook in 2021. Go, Licia!

This week, we got to host a group of sharp students for Greater Spokane Incorporated’s Business AfterSchool program. Our Ice Age Floods Playground design team presented their design process, and then it was the students’ turn to design the coolest playground they could imagine. However, they had to manage a budget, site constraints, and team dynamics throughout the process – preparing them for an authentic design experience. We had a blast with the students, and know that the future is bright!