Mindel, Scott & Associates landscape architecture and Site Planning group (MSA Design) offers your community the talent and vision of registered Landscape Architects, planners, designers, illustrators, and drafters. Our professionals are highly skilled in public and private sector work and can assist you in creating downtown enhancement plans, streetscapes, community gateways, parks and open spaces and design and landscape codes. An attractive, livable community has big advantages in attracting new development and sustaining a vital economy.  MSA's Planning and Design staff work together to develop plans that tie your community together through the use of themes that relate to your history, your people and your special places.  MSA Design works with the community and its citizens to envision a future.  MSA staff apply their knowledge and skill to design a plan that will carry out the vision.  We can take your plan all the way to construction drawings because of our extensive site planning and development experience.

Master Planning

MSA Design can work with your community to develop master plans for urban design at several different scales – important civic sites such as the courthouse square or city hall, new public buildings – or your entire downtown – or an urban design plan that includes gateways, wayfinding and placemaking elements that integrate and unify the entire community. 

Streetscape Design

Streetscape improvements can enhance the public right of way for pedestrians, motorists and bicyclists.  They can bring new life and interest to downtowns and newly developing areas.  MSA Design can bring life to barren streets and sidewalks and create gathering places and points of pride.

Main Street is your street!  Capitalize on it and let MSA help.

Parks and Open Space Design

Parks and public open spaces are critical to the livable community.  Good design provides spaces that accommodate recreation, allow contemplation and let neighbors come together to celebrate their sense of community.  MSA Design professionals create plans that transform open spaces into special environments that attract people.  MSA staff are also experienced at creating playgrounds and playscapes that engage children.

Development Codes, Landscape Codes and Design Guidelines

MSA partnered with Architecture Plus to develop site plans and landscape concepts for the grounds of the Casey County Judicial Center.

MSA has a strong tradition in site and subdivision design and special strength in conservation and open space subdivision designs.  Our projects get approved and built.  What does that mean to you as a local official?

It means that MSA Design understands land development, the application of development codes and the ways that codes can promote attractive, desirable development.  The zoning code can help to spur new development that reinforces your community's character and creates livable communities.  Older codes are usually deficient in landscaping requirements, sign controls and prevent the kind of mixed use that many communities now desire. 

MSA Design and planning staff work with you to analyze your development codes to ensure that they encourage quality development.  A modern code gives you a valuable tool to create a livable and vibrant community in which new and existing development harmonize.