As Director of OHM Advisors’ Planning and Landscape Architecture group, known as PLACE, Aaron is responsible for positioning PLACE for success. His role includes exploring opportunities for strategic growth through geographic expansion, mergers and acquisitions, and additional service offerings.

A planner with more than 25 years of experience, Aaron joined the firm in 2010 and later became a principal and practice leader. His leadership and deep commitment to the firm’s mission have been integral to building and growing the PLACE practice, and his vision has shaped planning projects across urban and suburban communities. Aaron has led comprehensive and strategic plans, vision plans, corridor and transportation projects, and streetscape designs with a keen focus on building deeper community ties and promoting new economic and private investment opportunities for the firm’s clients. 

Prior to his work with OHM Advisors, Aaron served as a public sector planning administrator. He excels at including citizens at the heart of the planning process in every project—leading and facilitating public participation to build stewardship, consensus, and support, and to yield plans rooted in a healthy balance of market realities with community values and aspirations.
 

As planners, we have a responsibility to help stabilize cities—the places we call home, and where our friends and families live. Cities that were built around industry that has moved overseas or where population has shifted and tax bases are dropping, with vacant downtowns... that requires us to think differently for our clients and communities. We owe them that.