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2011 Envision Award Winner
Garden Spot Village
Earl Township, Lancaster County, PA

Garden Spot Village is a 108-acre Continuing Care Retirement Community which includes a Main Street/Village Center, Chapel, 102 full-care nursing beds, 65 assisted living beds, 21 dementia care beds, and 390 independent living units comprised of apartments, townhouses and cottages. RGS designed this long-range Master Plan as a blended community extension of the adjacent Borough of New Holland. Plans included the design of unique private gardens, accommodations for the New Holland community library expansion of the adjacent community memorial park and the integration of an on-site 3 acre centralized park. Recent expansions have integrated a 60,000 square foot medical/office complex developed through a partnership with a local hospital. RGS also negotiated and secured permits for a new 280,000 gallon-per-day municipal sewage treatment plant, pump station and 7,800 lineal foot sewer conveyance system to accommodate Garden Spot Village and surrounding Township growth.

RGS Associates provided the following services:
  • Site analysis, conceptual design and master planning
  • Facilitated resident focus groups for design feedback
  • Site circulation design
  • Coordination of surveying, Phase I wetland evaluations, traffic studies, and sewer treatment plant design and permitting
  • Prepared land development and site construction drawings
  • Landscape planting design
  • Prepared site construction bidding documents
  • Performed construction site observation
  • 3D computer-generated models




Awards Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for outstanding professional design in the Landscape Architectural Design/Build Category

Merit award from the Keystone Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors for outstanding contributions in serving as a design professional