Civic Planning
We help clients envision buildings, campuses, and cities that inspire and support their communities.
TSK’s planning and programming process is informed by research, focused on people, and founded on conversation.

Discover what you need to design.
A great planning effort is not just about listening to the client’s desires—it’s about creating a process that allows them to communicate those desires. Bringing together stakeholders, community members, and indispensable partners like facilities personnel, we lead engaging activities and discussions that establish a shared value system for a what a project will be. Along the way, we account for practicalities, like the resources you have on hand to maintain your building. Moving forward, we don’t just listen—we get to the heart of why you like or dislike a feature or precedent, with the goal of collaboratively envisioning solutions that embody the spirit of your community.
Consistent vision, from kickoff to closeout.
Whether we’re planning a single building, a campus, or a capitol mall, the people we bring to the table are not just experts in your project type—they’re the ones who remain with the work from beginning to end. We believe planning should have vision, the kind communities are inspired to bring to life. Vision founded upon deep research, which we conduct before the planning process even begins. Whether we’re working with judges to imbue their courtrooms with a sense of solemnity, or creating a stately presence for a cluster of federal buildings, our time-tested planning experts come prepared, with informed questions and a warm sense of curiosity that yields meaningful answers.


Maintain your assets, today and into the future.
Responsible ownership is not just about what you can afford to build—it’s also about what you can afford to maintain. We work with clients to figure out where they want to be, and once they’ve arrived, how long they’re able to own and maintain their facilities. This inclusive component of our process yields details that can fundamentally change the trajectory of a project—for the better. After all, if our discussions reveal a maintenance detail that requires us to isolate a room or circulation path for health or safety reasons, incorporating that knowledge into the design makes the final product stronger. That’s why TSK’s planning and programming efforts are so robust—we come prepared, we make sure the right people are involved, and then we keep the lines of communication open, to make sure we get it right.
Planning Services
Interactive Planning Sessions
Phasing + Cost Analysis
Master Planning
Programming
Facility + Site Assessments
CAse Studies
Planning a Roadmap for an Experience-Rich CTE Center
Through extensive research, data gathering, tours, and engagement, Huckabee’s Planning Team worked with Plano ISD’s CTE Leadership Committee to create a roadmap for building a new, innovative, student-centric, and experience-rich CTE center.
The first step was to work together to identify what CTE programs would be housed at the new CTE Center, and which ones would be at the high school and senior high campuses. Huckabee then led activities to define the user experience for the new facility, prompting stakeholders to articulate what perceptions and reactions they wanted the building to inspire in students, staff, and visitors.
CAse Studies
Planning for Parity and Innovation
The planning effort for Aledo ISD engaged the community in a combined visioning effort for both a new middle school and the transformation of an existing one, representing the first time the district split their secondary schools into two campuses.
Community input and targeted discussion around teaching and learning resulted in a conceptual framework for how spaces should function—not just for the middle schools, but for the district’s future campuses as well. In the end, the project proved that renovations can create parity with new construction, and that two schools can contribute to a united community and a shared sense of pride.
CAse Studies
Planning for STEM with a Focus on the Continuum of Learning
With a focus on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), Barton Reimagined replaces an elementary school built in 1955 with one that activates a more user-oriented experience.
Through a robust visioning and stakeholder engagement process, our team reached out for design input from the experts: students, teachers, educators, and community. Following multiple activities and design charettes, we developed objectives that outlined the learning environment’s exploratory nature, its vibrant aesthetic, its inclusive culture, its connection to the outdoors, a focus on STEM, and more.
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