Landscape Forms Enters a Partnership with the International Downtown Association
Kalamazoo, MI – January 19, 2024 – Landscape Forms, North America’s leading designer and manufacturer of site lighting and furniture, structure, and accessories, announces its partnership with the International Downtown Association (IDA). IDA’s focus is on revitalizing and sustaining vibrant downtowns, city centers, and neighborhoods. The organization works with business improvement districts and place management leaders worldwide to connect and empower professionals in the place management industry and provide the knowledge, research, and tools needed to create livable and prosperous urban areas.
"Landscape Forms has long recognized the vital role downtowns play in the health of a region and the importance of enhancing the human experience through placemaking. The IDA shares that philosophy, describing its members as “urban champions who bring city centers to life.”
“Landscape Forms works closely with designers, business improvement districts, municipalities, and others to enhance urban life. Our lighting elements are some of the tools designers use to create safe, welcoming, and enjoyable places where people want to be. Our involvement with the IDA is a natural continuation of that work,” says Landscape Forms Lighting President Jordan Agustin. “Landscape Forms’ focus on improving the human experience in public spaces and IDA’s focus on placemaking are closely aligned. We’re excited to count ourselves amongst IDA’s members, each of whom are stakeholders across the full spectrum of public space design and advocacy.”
About Landscape Forms
Landscape Forms iis the industry leader in integrated collections of high-design site furniture, structures, accessories, and advanced LED lighting. Since its founding in 1969 Landscape Forms has earned a reputation for excellent design, high quality products and exceptional service. Headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the family of brands includes Loll Designs located in Duluth, Minnesota; Summit Furniture in Monterey, California; and Kornegay Design in Phoenix, Arizona. It has sales representatives throughout North America, South America, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and Asia. Landscape Forms collaborates with renowned industrial designers and consultancies, landscape architects, and architects to design and develop integrated collections of products that address emerging needs and help create a sense of place. Additionally, the company has formed global marketing partnerships with select companies that share its commitment to design. Landscape Forms has an installed base of products around the world. Clients include municipalities, transit centers, corporate, college and health care campuses; and familiar brand leaders such as Harvard University, Linked In, New York Central Park Conservancy, Bryant Park, Google, Coca Cola, Oculus, U.S. Tennis Association (USTA), Nike, National Museum of African American History (Washington, D.C.), Barclays Center, Adidas, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Microsoft, and Uber. Landscape Forms has been named one of the Best Workplaces in Manufacturing & Production for 2020, 2021, and 2022 by Fortune magazine, Michigan Manufacturer of the Year by the Michigan Manufacturers Association, and by 269 Magazine as one of Southwest Michigan’s Wonderful Workplaces.
About the International Downtown Association
IDA is the premier organization for urban place professionals who are shaping and activating dynamic city center districts. Our members are city builders and downtown champions who bring urban centers to life, bridging the gap between the public and private sectors. We represent an industry of more than 2,500 place management organizations, employing 100,000 people throughout North America and growing rapidly around the world. Founded in 1954, IDA is a resource center for ideas and innovative best practices in urban place management.
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https://www.downtown.com/