BS, Delaware Valley University, Horticulture and Environmental Design (1992)
Certificate in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania (1995)
Sean Garrigan is a founding Principal and President of Stromberg/Garrigan & Associates (SGA), where he has developed a specialization in the reclamation and redevelopment of highly contaminated and environmentally constrained brownfield sites. He serves as a national advisor to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Offices of Brownfields and Land Revitalization and Land and Emergency Management, as well as to numerous state and regional environmental and economic development agencies.
Bridging landscape architecture, urban planning and design, historic preservation, environmental science, economics, and finance, his professional and academic work focuses on the intersection of multidisciplinary approaches to create transformative landscapes and places, often within highly constrained contexts. Current and notable projects include master planning more than 13 miles and 1,000+ acres of land along Detroit River “downriver” from the City of Detroit; preparing the Brownfields Opportunity Area Revitalization Plan for Newtown Creek in Brooklyn and Queens, NY; leading the Harbor Park Redevelopment Plan in Norfolk, VA; and the overseeing the strategic redevelopment plan for more than 28 miles of the Ohio River, from the City of Pittsburgh to Ohio.
Collectively, his work has contributed to more than $1 billion in public and private civic reinvestment in post-industrial communities in 20 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, demonstrating the impact of integrated planning and design strategies in catalyzing meaningful urban and regional redevelopment.
