Bainbridge Guilford CSD
Parkitects has worked with Bainbridge Guilford CSD to install playgrounds at Greenlawn Elementary and Guilford Elementary. Each is unique, but both provide students with an engaging, varied play experience.
Parkitects has worked with Bainbridge Guilford CSD to install playgrounds at Greenlawn Elementary and Guilford Elementary. Each is unique, but both provide students with an engaging, varied play experience.
Parkitects worked closely with landscape architects to design a customized play area that recognized the surrounding natural wonder.
The Harris Hill Elementary playground includes multiple large play structures as well as independent components.
The Thompson Park playground gives local families beautiful and accessible environment in which all can play.
Featuring play equipment geared towards kids of all ages, the Tri Valley playground encourages a fun, challenging, and varied play experience.
Parkitects is a playground design and build company serving Upstate New York and the surrounding regions.
We provide our partners with the clarity and confidence they need to create the play spaces the community deserves.
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Erik Riffel is the Buffalo Niagara Regional Manager. He decided to join the team because the mission of Parkitects resonates with him. He likes being a part of a company whose focus is on bringing children joy. Erik is very active; he spends most of his mornings exercising and loves to travel, cook, sail, and be by the water.
Director of Operations Kelle Perreault has been with Parkitects since January 2022. She comes equipped to the team with 2+ decades of leadership experience in the playground industry. Kelle is an astute planner and organizer who finds it rewarding to create systems that streamline Parkitects business operations. Bonus points – she gets to see her grandsons enjoy the playgrounds Parkitects create.
Outside of work, Kelle loves to knit and considers herself a dog enthusiast. She is a proud and happy grandma of two young boys.
Lynn Mason has been with Parkitects for over 11 years. She is the Landscape Architect, RLA, ASLA, and CPSI. She has her dual Master’s Degree in architecture and landscape architecture.
Lynn got her start working for a small Landscape Architecture firm in North Tonawanda as the main designer for school projects. She was instrumental in convincing the Buffalo Public School district that every elementary school deserved a playground and space for kids to play.
She spent her six years there working with Parkitects and Ben Frasier on each of those school and playground projects. When the design work for schools started to end at the firm she was at, Lynn joined Parkitects so that she could continue designing playgrounds and play environments for schools and communities.
Lynn enjoys working directly with a community or school in creating their dream playground. She appreciates the lasting impact play spaces have on children and the community.
Lynn is actively involved in her community and is a member of the Village of Hamburg Community Foundation – a non-profit that works on park and village projects to improve the quality of life and amenities the village has to offer. She is also a Girl Scout troop leader for both her daughters and works to instill in them a passion for the outdoors and improving the quality of life through service and leadership.
Her family of five are camping enthusiasts who camp several times a year at various state parks where her kids get to play on Parkitects designed playgrounds, hike, and fish.
Leore Kushner has worked with Parkitects since 2017. He is the Greater Hudson Regional Manager. Leore enjoys doing work that is meaningful to him and seeing the happiness a play space can bring to children.
He spends his free time hiking, playing soccer, disc golfing, cooking, gardening, and skiing.
Andy Walsh is the Project Manager for the Genesee Region. He has been with Parkitects since 2021. Andy was inspired to join the team after taking his daughter to local playgrounds and witnessing the joy and excitement that play spaces brought to the community.
Andy enjoys being part of a team with experienced and motivated individuals. His colleagues inspire him to be better every day and to maintain the standard they have set forth.
Andy spends his free time dancing with his daughter, playing rhythm guitar, rowing, and listening to music while going on adventures with his wife, Julie.
Sara Emery has been with Parkitects since 2011 and is the Marketing and Sales Specialist. She started out as a volunteer doing community builds on the weekends and in 2015, joined the team as full-time staff.
Experiencing firsthand the joy Parkitects can bring to a child and a family motivated her to join the team. Being a person who can create and facilitate lasting impacts is important to her, and she is able to do this through her work with the company. She enjoys working with her team and seeing the difference they make in people’s lives.
In her free time, Sara loves being in her garden and loves her backyard apiary. She also enjoys spending time with her three children.
Isabel joined the team in 2022. She works as a Sales Support Specialist and Order Entry. Being a part of the team gives her a sense of community. She enjoys working with a team whose focus is to provide accessible play for all children.
Isabel is an avid music enthusiast; she grew up exploring choir and musical theater. She also loves to read, travel, and spend time outdoors in the warm weather.
Nathan Emery is the Installation Coordinator and has been with the company since 2005. It is his goal to bring inclusive and fun play spaces all over NY. He finds fulfillment in his role and enjoys working with an inclusive team of professionals.
Nathan spends his free time doing drone photography, home brewing, fishing, and anything outdoors.
President of Parkitects Ben Frasier has been with the company since 1999. He started out leading community-build playground projects with national nonprofit kaBOOM!. Ben thrives on working with communities to make their playground dreams a reality.
When he’s not working or making dream playgrounds come true, he is spending time with his wife, sailing, traveling, or checking out local pubs at his travel destination.
Priscilla works in Accounting Support and has been with the company since 2019. Aside from enjoying the fun work environment that Parkitects provides, Priscilla enjoys seeing the playground designs and colors. She is happy to be a part of a team that improves play spaces for kids across the state.
Priscilla likes to sew, knit, and garden and enjoys having off-screen time away from her computer.
Nathan McCormick is the Sales Support Specialist and joined the team in 2021. He was inspired to work with Parkitects because he was inspired by the exciting and different experiences the company has to offer. He loves that Parkitects focuses on inclusion when building a playground. Nathan finds making other people happy rewarding, as well as being a part of the cheerfulness that playgrounds bring to communities.
Nathan is a golf enthusiast and spends his free time perfecting his golfing skills. He also loves to ski, play lacrosse and soccer, be outdoors, and go for hikes.
After graduating from Bath University in England, Lynn worked for a brewing company checking the quality and safety of food and drinks. She came to the USA in 2002 with her family. Lynn is a dedicated volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America, where she wears a variety of hats in both Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. She loves to see kids of all ages having fun, particularly if the fun can be outdoors.
Karen has a degree in sociology from SUNY Cortland. She spent several years as a social worker but found she missed recess too much! She joined Parkitects in 2004 with a focus on inside sales but quickly transitioned to project management. She loves collaborating with communities and schools to bring fun and challenging play experiences to their kids, and often travels with Peri, the Playground Pup, by her side.
Originally from Rockford, Illinois, Brian joined Parkitects in 2007 as lead playground designer and now balances his time between the office and the field as the primary inspector for Parkitects’ safety audit program. Brian designs engaging spaces where children can play and explore, and also ensures that they are maintained for years to come.
Diane is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a degree in Design and Environmental Analysis. She began her design career working with small architecture and engineering firms in Santa Fe, NM and Ithaca, NY. She became an official co-owner of Parkitects in 1997 and took the lead on in-house design, marketing and finance. In September 2018, Diane assumed the role of president and now oversees all business operations.
Steve is a graduate of Michigan State University and holds dual degrees in Park Planning/Design and Landscape Horticulture. In September 1996, he founded Parkitects, becoming the upstate New York designer and distributor for Landscape Structures. Since then, Steve has guided Parkitects from a one-person startup to a multi-office firm with an emphasis on whole site and complete playground design that integrates structure and landscape.