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Theater By The Sea plans upgrades
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Theatre By The Sea plans to start work Monday on a new brick walkway and improvements to its grounds, the theater said.... (more >)

GLA PARTICIPATES IN INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE SHOW Cairo, Egypt
June 8, 2009 From 15 through 17 June, 2009, GLA displayed a booth at Cairo’s first International Garden and Landscape Exhibition. The show was held in the Cairo International Exhibition Center and marked the first time commercial and residential... (more >)

GLA Participates in Career Fair
March 20, 2009

On March 19, 2009, Kristin Kaczmarek, Landscape Designer and Wil Gates, Chairman, joined forty other professionals in a Career Fair for students at Ponaganset Regional High School in Foster, Rhode Islan... (more >)

GLA's Maine Office
March 17, 2009

GLA’s Maine office has become the operational center for a series of environmental revitalization and development projects throughout the Pine Tree State. The most intense project in the spring of 2009 is enhancement of the Kenne... (more >)

The Ritz Carlton Sharm El Sheikh
March 17, 2009

GLA’s first project in Egypt, The Ritz Carlton Sharm El Sheikh, is listed in the 2009 edition of FINE HOTELS & RESORTS, published by American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. This extraordinary resort property design... (more >)

Fountain Park Billboard Displays GLA Rendering
December 23, 2008

Fountain Park, a luxury villa project in New Cairo, Egypt has erected a billboard showing GLA’s design and rendering of the contemporary garden within the complex. GLA’s master plan also included... (more >)

Flexibility, staff retention helping GLA prosper
Ask the partners at Gates, Leighton & Associates Inc. (GLA), to explain how their company has prospered through the current economic slowdown, and they will point to lessons from an earlier slump. “One thing we learned back in 1991 is that you don’t put a... (more >)

PBN announces Business Excellence winners
PBN undertakes the competition to celebrate the Rhode Island business community’s successes, and to highlight the varied paths that local businesses and individuals have taken to the top. GLA won an Excellence in Business award for companies with fewer th... (more >)

East Providence firm a presence in Egypt
During the mid-1990s, landscape architect Wilfrid L. Gates Jr. was invited by Rhode Island-based hotel designer Robert DiLeonardo to take a trip to Egypt to consider designing the 48-acre grounds for a Ritz-Carlton resort. ... (more >)

GLA: New members of the U.S. Green Building Council
June 6th, 2008

Gates, Leighton & Associates, Inc. continues its pledge to green design by becoming members of the U.S. Green Building Council. The USGBC is the nation’s foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working... (more >)

GLA Chairman Wil Gates travels to Abu Dahbi for Cityscapes 2008
May 22nd, 2008

Chairman of GLA Wil Gates represented the company at CityScape Abu Dhabi http://www.cityscapeabudhabi.com/ 13 May 2008 - 15 May 2008. The giant international real estate trade exposition showcased mega-projects and development oppo... (more >)

Gates, Leighton & Associates facilitates a public "Charrette" for Marion's Camp, Sutton Ma.
April 5th, 2008

Gates, Leighton & Associates Project Manager Kris Bradner, Vice President of Administration Arthur Eddy, and Landscape Designer Andrew Rollins facilitated a community design meeting or “charrette” on Saturday April 5th, in Sutton, M... (more >)

GLA staffer gives talk at Build Boston Residential Design Conference
April 2nd, 2008

GLA landscape designer Amanda Sloan was a presenter at the Residential Design conference sponsored by the Boston Architectural Society at Seaport World Trade Center, Boston on Wednesday, April 2, 2008. Amanda developed and presented... (more >)

Chairman Wilfrid Gates serves as Judge at the 2008 Massachusetts Horticultural Society Spring Flower Show
March 7th, 2008

Wil Gates was a judge at the 2008 Massachusetts Horticultural Society Spring Flower Show. The show is held annually at Boston's Expo Center. Mr. Gates has been invited to judge four times. "Symphony in Green" was the theme of... (more >)

GLA teams up with A-stone to create "The Three Little Pigs" garden at the 2008 New England Flower and Garden Show
February 25th, 2008

The 2008 Southern New England Flower and Garden show theme of fairy tales was whimsically interpreted by GLA in "The Three Little Pigs" garden for A-Stone of Johnston, Rhode Island. Mark Butler, Meghan Tibbitts, and... (more >)

GLA signs cooperation agreement with Orientals for Urban Development in New Cairo, Egypt
February 27th, 2008

A cooperation agreement has been signed between Orientals for Urban Development Company ( Oriental Weavers Group) and GLA landscape Architecture. Agreement was signed between Mr. Asem Kabil, Chairman of OUDCo. and Mr.... (more >)

Invasive Plant Management Certification Program
January 25th, 2008

Amanda Sloan attends Invasive Plant Management Certification Program sponsored by the University of Rhode Island CELS Outreach Center and the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council on January 23rd and 24th, the... (more >)

GLA Designs Landscape for St. Martha's Church Restoration Project
December 18th, 2008 Gates, Leighton & Associates, Inc. (GLA), an award-winning international landscape architecture and planning firm headquartered in East Providence, R.I., has completed landscaping planning and design for the grounds around St. Marth... (more >)

Two from GLA travel to Cairo, Egypt
December 3rd, 2007

Wilfrid Gates and Arthur Eddy pack-up and head to Cairo, Egypt. The trips main purpose was to further extend and investigate GLA's interests in the overseas market. GLA has been working in Egypt since 1996 working on... (more >)

V.P. of Admin. runs the Philadelphia Marathon
November 23rd, 2007

Arthur Eddy, Vice President of Administration, completed the 2007 Philadelphia Marathon. Art weathered the rain and cold November temperatures to complete the grueling 26.2 mile race. He trained very hard for this race... (more >)

Wilfrid Gates Sits on Panel at Build Boston
November 15th, 2007

Wilfrid L. Gates, Jr. ASLA, Chairman of Gates, Leighton & Associates, Inc. participated in a professional panel at the region’s premier architecture and building showcase: Build Boston, November 15, 2007. Fellow Panelists... (more >)

GLA takes part in the completion of the World War Two Memorial in Providence
November 11th, 2007

November 11, 2007 marked Gates, Leighton & Associates, Inc.'s completion of a World War Two Memorial in Providence. GLA not only designed the memorial, but organized the pro-bono efforts to complete the landscaping. The... (more >)

Local Landscape Architect Becomes LEED Accredited Professional
October 12th, 2007 Arthur J. Eddy, vice president of administration and a landscape architect with GLA, has been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council.... (more >)

GLA is knocking down walls
August 10th, 2007

It was rainy, dreary day on August 10th, 2007, but it was all smiles inside of the office of Gates, Leighton & Associates. Principal Donald Leighton literally knocked over the wall into the adjoining space. (more >)

Arthur Eddy promoted to Vice President of Administration at GLA
July 2nd, 2007 Arthur J. Eddy has been promoted to vice president of administration at Gates, Leighton & Associates.... (more >)

GLA Adds Landscape Architects, Designers to Staff
July 26th, 2007 Kristin Kaczmarek, Kris Bradner, Amanda Sloan, and Mark Butler joins design staff at GLA.... (more >)

Two of GLA's finest complete the 2007 Citizen's Bank/Save the Bay swim
July 21st, 2007

Two of GLA’s finest employees finished the 2007 Citizen's Bank/Save the Bay swim on July 21st, 2007. Megan Tibbitts and Deb Howard both braved the wind blown waters of the Narragansett Bay. This is a grueling 1.7 mile swim... (more >)

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03/08 Rhode Island Monthly "Hidden Treasures"
The English poet William Blake and his missus took tea in their garden in the buff. Nothing we’d want to try (we’re certain the Blakes’ friends wish they hadn’t), but there is something to be said for a garden where you can sip a coffee in your pajamas or at least raise a glass without alerting the guy next door. Such a personal sanctuary seemed unattainable until we ran across the trio of gardens that follow. Traffic may roll and pedestrians pass beyond the hedge, but once inside, the world falls away. Inspired by their distinct and innovative approaches, we just might be able to forge our own retreat. Not one where we plan to undress (bugs, sunburn, wrinkles), but sweet nonetheless. Come see. .... View Article
03/08 Providence Business News "Lawn, garden care are homeowners priorities"
Nearly 160 years ago, Indiana journalist John B.L. Soule first pointed hardy citizens toward the vast Pacific with the enduring words “Go West, young man ….” Written as an earnest plea for expansion and a better way of life, and later more famously usurped by Horace Greeley, the decree quickly became the soundtrack for the latter 19th century. .... View Article
10/07 - Providence Business News Article "Reinventing Industrial Landscapes"
Most of the Industrial Age mills being redeveloped throughout the state were not built originally to be attractive for the factory workers filtering in and out of the buildings each day. But now that the mills are being re-used for residential and commercial uses, developers of the buildings have a challenge. How do they make them look appealing to the tenants or buyers they are hoping to attract?
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7/05 - Providence Business News Article "Landscape Firm Stays Grounded"
Their work has transformed the banks of the Blackstone River, honored war heroes, reinvented suburban villages, revitalized urban streetscapes, enhanced residential and commercial developments, and carved out a luxurious oasis in the Egyptian desert. Wilfrid L. Gates Jr. and Donald S. Leighton have been partners for 20 years now, and together, they’ve built Rhode Island’s largest landscape architecture and design firm, and one of New England’s most prestigious.
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7/07 - Providence Business News Article "A Vegas-Quality Landscape with a Rhode Island Look"
When most people talk about the transformation of Lincoln Park into Twin River, they tend to focus on the added video lottery terminals, the expansion and the new dining and entertainment options inside. Yet as Gates, Leighton & Associates sees it, one of the most exciting parts of the $220 million project is the landscaping – a $1.5 million project led by the firm that involves “probably one of the most aggressive plantings in Rhode Island,” said the firm’s chairman, Wil Gates.
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8/07 - Providence Business News Article "Flowers Bring New Flair to Blossoming Downcity"
There are new hotels and condos sprouting up all over Providence’s downtown – anyone can see that. But recently, there have been subtler changes: new plantings and an extra effort to beautify and clean up the streets to make them more appealing to visitors...While the first phase of planting focused mostly on the area bordered by Queen Street on the west and Kennedy Plaza to the east, the second phase should push plantings outward to include the entire downtown, according to the new Master Landscape Plan prepared by Gates, Leighton & Associates Inc.
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9/07 - Providence Business News Article "North Main Street Eyed for Redesign, Upgrades"
After spending much of the past year fund-raising and with financial support from Miriam Hospital, the Summit Neighborhood Association recently hired East Providence-based Gates, Leighton & Associates, a landscape architecture firm, to help draft a more specific plan for future development of North Main Street.
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