Awards:
2008 Comprehensive Plan (Small Community), for planning and urban design master plan, policy and codes for Leland, NC
Awarded by the NC Chapter of the APA Brian Benson (teamed with The Lawrence Group)
2006 Marvin Collins Outstanding Planning Award: Special Theme: Smart Growth.
Awarded by the NC APA for the "Huntersville Downtown Master Plan" (teamed with The Lawrence Group)
2005 Marvin Collins Outstanding Planning Award: Special Theme: Small Community. Renaissance Plan for the "Heart of Wake Forest Comprehensive Plan."
Awarded by the NC APA (teamed with The Lawrence Group)
2004 Special Theme Award for Smart Growth: for "Center of the Region Enterprise (CORE) Smart Growth Strategic Plan", Raleigh, NC
Awarded by NC APA (teamed with The Lawrence Group)
Testimonials:
"Rose & Associates and Kathleen Rose has provided strategic planning, market feasibility and commercial needs assessments for a number of our projects in North Carolina. She has a unique ability to compress and interpret complex market demographics and real estate analysis in a manner that is easy to understand. Her research is thorough, well-researched and firmly grounded in the market realities of the region in which she is working. We have integrated her studies into our planning efforts to ensure market feasibility of our designs and visions."
Craig Lewis, AICP, CNU, The Lawrence Group Architects & Land Planners, Davidson, NC
"Kathleen is an excellent and insightful analyst of development and demographic trends. She is able to analyze markets and communities quickly in ways that provide clear and usable information to urban designers and planners exactly when we need it during the master planning process. She has very good personal skills working with community groups and elected officials to explain the realities of the market in clear and easy to understand language." June 15, 2009
David Walters, Senior Urban Designer, The Lawrence Group & Professor/Director at UNC Charlotte, Center for Architecture & Design
"Kathleen is an excellent consultant who brings new and innovative ways at looking at markets and projects." June 17, 2009
Tom Flynn CeCD, Director of Economic Development, City of Charlotte
"Kathleen Rose has functioned as a consultant to our development group, and has provided services which include site research & feasibility, site selection & acquisition, and project management all with respect to the development of retail projects throughout the northeast. Kathleen has consistently demonstrated extensive capability in assisting our organization to meet its goals, and would enthusiastically recommend her provision of services in the analysis, acquisition or development of any retail project."
Richard Cohen, Konover Development Corporation, Farmington, CT