Burke Joins Oates Associates

Bill Burke, RLA, APA, of Glen Carbon, IL, has joined Oates Associates, a civil and structural engineering / architectural design firm, to head up the firm’s new urban planning and landscape architecture group. Burke’s appointment marks the firm’s second expansion within six months. Oates added architectural services in August 2009.

Burke has more than 20 years of experience in planning, urban design and landscape architecture. His noted projects include the Citygarden public sculpture garden in downtown St. Louis, the Gateway Mall Master Plan, the Arch Grounds Connector engineering and urban design study,  the Edward Jones Campus Master Plan, and the Cape Girardeau, Missouri Comprehensive Plan.

Burke is a member of the American Planning Association, the Urban Land Institute and has served on the Southwestern Illinois Leadership Council and the Village of Glen Carbon Planning and Zoning Commission. He has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Arkansas.

Oates Associates is a multi-disciplined design firm with offices in Collinsville, Illinois, and St. Louis.

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