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Scott Parker

Scott Parker is the co-founder of DesignWorks, a Charleston, S.C.-based company dedicated to creating memorable landscapes and urban places that meld environmental sensitivity with the creation and enhancement of community and culture. Through DesignWorks, he is currently directing the planning of Magnolia and the Concord Park development, both mix-use communities on the Charleston peninsula; Canalside in downtown Columbia, S.C., and the design of a Master Plan for Christophe Harbor, an exclusive marina resort in St. Kitts, British Virgin Islands.

Through DesignWorks, he also directed master plans for decommissioned military bases in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Anniston, Ala., and Warrenton, Va., as well as destination resorts in Costa Rica; County Clare, Ireland; and Bald Head Island, N.C. Parker has worked on a number of projects across the country. With DesignWorks he has directed master plans for new communities in the Hudson River Valley, Lexington, Ky., and Brevard, N.C. Previously, he helped prepare master plans for Charlottesville, Va., the Tanglewood Music Center in western Massachusetts, and the Hudson River Waterfront Park along the entire edge of Manhattan.

In South Carolina, he directed plans for Seaside Farms in Mount Pleasant and prepared campus plans for the Medical University of South Carolina, the College of Charleston, Porter-Gaud School, Coker College and the Governor’s School for Math and Science. He designed two main public spaces in downtown Greenville as well as the redesign of Johnnie Dodds Boulevard in Mount Pleasant. He has also worked extensively on several large scale projects on Kiawah Island, including Cassique, Freshfields Village and the Ocean Course. He has also served as chairman of the Sullivan’s Island Planning Commission for six years.

Parker worked for six years with noted architect Benjamin Thompson, assisting with two large urban design and planning projects in London, a Business Improvement District covering 10 miles of streets around Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, the redevelopment of the industrial waterfront in Cardiff, Wales, and the docklands in Dublin. Parker also worked on the main public square in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and harbor-front developments in Tokyo and Auckland, New Zealand. A graduate of the University of Georgia School of Environmental Design, Parker also holds a Masters of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.