SiteWorks is pleased to announce that Melissa Potter Ix has joined the firm as Principal. Ms. Potter Ix brings to the team over twenty-eight years of professional experience and an award-winning design background. In the course of her career, Ms. Potter Ix has been involved in a diverse spectrum of projects ranging from large-scale municipal parks, streetscapes, urban parks and plazas to athletic and recreational facilities, commercial revitalization efforts, transportation interchanges, trail networks and resorts. Since joining SiteWorks, Ms. Potter Ix has been involved in community-based public park projects for the Trust for PublicLand and is on the design teams for BrooklynBotanic Garden’s New Native Flora Garden and Grand Street Guild Site Redesign in Manhattan. Additionally she is on the construction management teams for several New York infrastructure projects including Queens Plaza South, the West 125th Streetscape Improvements and Hudson Yards.
SiteWorks recently hired Josh Price as a landscape designer. Mr. Price holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Cornell University, where he received the American Society of Landscape Architects Award of Honor. With five years of experience in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design in both the public and private sector, Josh has quickly become an essential member of the SiteWorks team. Currently he is involved in community-based public park projects for the Trust for Public Land, is on the design team for Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s New Native Flora Garden and is providing additional support to various construction management teams. Josh also currently teaches Designing the City, an urban design course, at Fordham University.