Confluence

Confluence is a professional creative firm of landscape architects, urban designers and planners that works on parks, campuses, streetscapes and mixed-use districts. The firm's work covers landscape architecture, planning and urban design, with project types that include athletics and recreation facilities, civic and cultural spaces, education, master planning, waterfronts and transit.

The firm has offices in Des Moines, Kansas City, Sioux Falls, Cedar Rapids, Minneapolis, Omaha, Fargo, Chicago and Denver, and says it has more than 80 design and planning professionals. Planning work typically involves facilitated, hands-on engagement with the people who will use a space. The Des Moines office is at 525 17th Street.