Bruce Chamberlain has rejoined the staff at HKGi, a Minneapolis-based community planning and design firm, as an urban strategy and design practice leader.
Chamberlain boosts the firm’s platform in community development, ecological and urban design and landscape architecture.
“I could not be more thrilled to welcome Brian back to HKGi,” said Paul Paige, president of HKGi. “Bruce brings a context-based and strategic perspective to our urban design and community planning projects that will be of value to our clients and our firm.”
In his decade away from the firm, Chamberlain has gained executive leadership experience with the Minneapolis Parks & Recreation Board, launched urban strategy practice Loam, was inducted as a fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects and was selected as the inaugural Parks Fellow with the Minneapolis Parks Foundation.
Chamberlain has built a deep portfolio of planning and design works during his career. In recent years, he has played leadership roles including the new downtown riverfront park, Water Works, in Minneapolis; the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden; the Trailhead at Wirth Regional Park; and RiverFirst, an initiative designed to transform the city’s remaining industrial riverfront to park land.
In his prior two decades with HKGi, Chamberlain led nearly two dozen award-winning projects, including authorhip of the Mississippi River Greenway Master plan, which won a National Merit Award in 2002 from the ASLA.
