Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Expansion Project Team Member Profile Patri Acevedo Market Leader JLG Architects
Issue 4 - April 2019 Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Expansion Project Team Member Profile Patri Acevedo Market Leader JLG Architects As the head of JLG’s Rapid City office, Patri brings over 20 years of international design expertise, cultural sensitivity, and a wild and wonderful wit to this project. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Patri resided in New York, Florida and Texas before making the Black Hills her home. She is an engaged and passionate civic leader, and President of the South Dakota chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Additionally, she serves as a board JLG Architects member of the YMCA Rapid City, and one of the JLG Architects serves as the Local Design Architect founding Council Members of the Buffalo Gals, among on the project. The firm specializes in urban design, numerous other engagements. master planning and architectural design for sports/ recreation facilities, universities, K-12 schools, aviation Patri holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental facilities, medical centers, and mixed-use/multi-family Design Field - Architecture and a Master of housing. Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. She is licensed in five states and has a Founded in 1989, by Gary Johnson and Lonnie Laffen it hand in many of revitalization projects downtown. has grown to become the fastest growing architecture firm in America, according to Inc. Magazine. JLG has offices in Minneapolis, Rochester, and Alexandria, Minnesota, and Grand Forks, Bismarck, Minot, Williston, Dickinson, and Fargo, North Dakota, and Brookings, Rapid City, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. They recently became 100% Employee-Owned and are also part of the 1% pro bono design program of public architecture.
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