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It is immediately evident that this customer not only places a high premium on developing cutting edge athletic wear, but also on providing an inspirational and beneficial environment for its employees and guests.
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Visitor and vehicular traffic combined with the construction and renovation occurring in the area necessitates constant cleanup of unwanted trash and debris in bed and streetscapes. With over 65,000 sq/ft bed space, crews spend nearly 65% of their time each week on perennial and annual maintenance.
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The customer places a high premium on their landscape and the face it provides their brand. For every dollar they spend on the landscape management, they invest three dollars on enhancements to the property. In this area black eyed susan, begonia, hollies surround a crepe myrtle all blending to provide height, texture and additional visual interest.
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So as not to disturb the creative process and meetings in offices and conference rooms that are in close proximity to the landscape, the contractor works in close coordination with the onsite contact to maintain the landscape with a minimal amount of interference and noise.
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Strong client involvement underscores the importance of attention to detail on this site. The area manager walks the site weekly with the property manager to discuss challenges and concerns.
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Workers are encouraged to bike and run to work, enjoy time at the onsite gym, participate in fitness classes and use the property for pickup sports activities before, during and after work, which necessitates that the landscape contractor keep this urban landscape in top shape like the many athletes who call it home.
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The reflective heat from buildings, streets and traffic, combined with the moisture off the harbor (in some areas) and wind-tunnel effect, creates challenging microclimates. The area manager who is a horticulturalist, spends several hours each week preemptively monitoring conditions to mitigate the issues that can arise when plant material becomes stressed.
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The design of this corporate campus incorporates past remnants of the site’s blue-collar, inner-city tough history. The customer’s goal is that when people visit the campus, they feel the urban grit punctuated with the vibrant energy that is a hallmark of their brand.
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The customer’s goal is to be an active partner within the Locust Point community. To that end, the company’s owner and employees, along with the landscape contractor installed these crepe myrtles and yews in 2010 as a part of Earth Day celebrations.
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With just over 1300 employees onsite, the landscape contractor must be very responsive when it snows. To keep walkways and parking lots clear, the landscape contractor dispatches a dedicated truck/plow and up to 30 hand laborers to keep the site clean and hazard free.
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The landscape contractor spends a large amount of time weekly hand watering the 35 planters and 25 beds that are on site.
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(12) There is just over two acres of turf interspersed in small parcels throughout the site. Small to mid-sized push mowers are used as part of the weekly mowing regimen and the turf is monitored weekly for insect and disease, fertilized, and weed-control applied 5 times a year.
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The customer works to create an atmosphere that helps build a 24/7 community for their employees, allowing people to live around where they work and enjoy their time both in and out of the office.
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Providing a consistently high standard of maintenance in this urban landscape is challenging. But with strong communication between all parties and an eye to detail, the project—which is always growing in scope—seems to be accomplishing its goal of creating a top notch landscape for its employees, athletes and vendors from around the world.